Carl's Corner :)

Since I can't delete it in StevieJ's thread I will delete it here.

It's in that other thread where it is being ignored. Keep the link to my art site as I will be posting more as I make them. I already have to make some for several other people now.

Yes, I made up the story.

Please don't confuse me...that's an African tiger? The jungle is meant to be Thailand. My poor head...



I have to get some of the wedding things done in the next few weeks. Not much time left before they get married. All I need is to find people to film it. The one place only does artsy Victorian mushy style and we don't want that. I would think they would do what the people hiring them wanted and not what they felt would be good. They can keep their sappy style.

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ahimsa wrote: It's in that other thread where it is being ignored.

Sorry, I didn't mean to ignore anything you posted.....like I said, I'm flying through most of the time lately and miss things.....but I do catch up, right???

Those are good pictures of him.....

Too bad you can't post video clips, eh???

Been working on some stuff for my three sites. Yep, I have three sites now. One for art, one for Levi, and one for my tubes.

As soon as it is ready I will post a link here. Hans isn't doing well and he is the one that does my sites. I think I may need to learn how to upload there and stuff soon. These bodies don't hold up too well.

Hans and I are always on talking terms, we just have disagreements sometimes like any other friends. We've been friends 6 years in April. Hans has a lot of pain, plus his wife isn't doing well. We're both scared for her.

My tubes will be uploaded to my art site for now, but later on they will have their own site. I've just been too busy to make another webset.

Here is Levi's own site. http://home.arcor.de/ajunta/index.htm

I'm working on more, but I have to tube them all, make up a story, make the Poser stuff I need, and then put it all together. I'm slow.

Come in anytime you want. We just ramble on about anything here.

woo Hoo howdy Ron - yes you have to start at the begining and when your ready I will ask you a short series of fifty question to make sure you got all the details memorised

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ahimsa wrote: I'm slow.

ummm Cute pick, is the arm pulling Levi out of the pic

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Carl wrote: how old is he

Just old enough to puff up and run sideways. He thinks he's so tough.

How will you extract him? I decided to get really good with the path tool in PS so I could have him removed in less than an hour depending on the resolution.

No the path tool is a vector tool. I lay down the vectors then feather/blur the edges then convert to mask. The radius of the blur can be tightly controlled. I mastered it on this project:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ronviers/PuzzleProject

I was slow as hell starting out but by the time I finished it was second nature.

That's very different from what I am doing.

BTW...I use a disposable camera, a folding table with a sheet on it, and two livingroom lamps. That's my studio.

We have great studios.

I need more lighting though; too many shadows.

By the time I've typed something you two have had a conversation LMAO

Puzzle is great I wish I could read what you are doing

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ahimsa wrote: I ate a few Austrailian muffins before

Australia has muffins!! I have to go! I guess it makes sense - think of all the other uses a muffin pan would have while walkabouting around the outback. Separating water, hitting pigmies and crocs, protecting boomerangs...

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No saying interesting things until then.

No problem there.

Night Ron!

I'm still using PSP 7 Anniversary Edition. I've tried the newer versions, but 7 is my favorite and I am very good with it. I did try that tool in version 8 and it was fun, but I can actually get a cleaner result tubing with the lasso tool.

The only reason I am finally attempting to learn PS is because of all the brushes and actions I have collected and bought for it. I just wish I could read that tiny print in the actions area so I could see what I'm doing. My poor eyes.

Point to point and freehand. I also feather at 1 because it smoothes the curves out and gets rid of the jagged edges.

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Carl wrote: Puzzle is great I wish I could read what you are doing

Here is the document I used to describe the project to the group. Don't worry if you do not make it all the way through, it reads like a sleeping pill. It went over like a lead balloon with the group - not a single comment. Oh well, I learned a lot.

Crapadilla and Redcap have FF solutions that offer less control but are far easier to use.
Crapadilla http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1598.html
Redcap http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3750.html


http://picasaweb.google.com/ronviers/PuzzleProject

I have a PSD document that is basically a group of vector masks. These
layers with their associated masks are arranged in such a way that any
image can be loaded into this file and it will take on the appearance
of a jigsaw puzzle. The way this works is that an arbitrary image is loaded into the PSD as the 'Puzzle' layer. There is also a 'Pieces' group filled with the individual vector masks with clipping paths for each piece. Notice how some of the pieces are red. Once the image that is to be used as the 'Puzzle' layer is loaded into the document the pieces layers (pieces) that are to be uses are changed to red so they can be selected manually later. Finally there is an 'Archive' group used
to contain the source for the paths and two styles. The style source layers are used to customize the appearance of the pieces, then those styles are pasted en mass onto either the pieces that are to be visible or the ones to be invisible. Then I go through and do a 'Knockout Deep' to background to all the pieces that are to be invisible. Btw, my original idea was that I would simply make invisible (click on the layer eye) the pieces to get rid of them but reality set in and I had to come up with the cumbersome 'style' pasting technique.
With this approach any number of raws can be loaded into their own
template to be puzzleized. Also I figured out a way by using the
'styles' palette to quickly 'show' or knockout by easily and
quickly replacing the piece style. And now by using nested smart
objects not only is the process non-destructive but it is much simpler
to work with. This works especially well for knocking out parts of a
photo that otherwise takes away. I filled this web album full of
in-process screen caps if you want to make one of these for yourself.
Or you can email me ronviers@gmail.com and I will send you the PSD template.