Doodles characters I like more than my own. Butchers them.
I’m so sorry hornedfreak I will make up for this when I have a better grasp of semi-realism and face lines and won’t make Roteye look like a child 9.9;;;;
as a former yearbook editor and designer, let me explain this further
if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well
BUT
please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality – this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.
this has been a public service announcement
I’ve replied to this once before but I see it’s doing the rounds again.
This is all utter bullshit.
I’m sorry but if your qualification is working on the school yearbook, you have no qualifications. Do not pretend otherwise. As a former professional photo manipulator for advertising brochures, I can say that you’re not comparing apples to oranges here – if anything, you’re comparing fruit to farmyard machinery:
JPEG is a lossy format. It is suitable for web imagery because it sacrifices detail for reduced file sizes, but in doing so it introduces artifacts that weren’t in the original; if you load a JPEG for editing, then save it as a different JPEG, then you’re adding more artifacts formed from those first artifacts. Do this often enough and you end up with a horrid glitchy mess that looks like a puddle’s reflection after a stone’s been thrown in. You’ve seen those memes that have 3 or 4 different “found at” tags along the bottom, that look like fingerpainted copies of the original? That’s why.
PNG is a lossless format that comes in two primary flavours, PNG-8 and PNG-24, which use 8 and 24 bit colour respectively. 8-bit colour is what you have in GIFs, a limit of just 256 different colours in a predetermined palette, usually automatically chosen by your software when saving. These files will look the same as GIFs, potentially with large patches of solid colour instead of the usual gradual shading seen in 24-bit imagery. This is usually better for small banners or pixel art, as it can yield smaller filesizes than GIF format. (There is an animated version called MNG but it has very little web support, hence the continued use of GIFs.)
PNG-24 is great for larger images where detail is as important as colour depth, as well as printable RGB images and (if supported by the client) full colour images with gradient transparencies. It most certainly does not make “the quality of the image pretty shitty,” as it preserves every nuance. File sizes can be smaller than JPEG for small images, or significantly larger for large images.
PDF is a container file, whatever you put into it will be pretty much preserved as it was, so you gain nothing but lose nothing.
TIFF is what you need to be using for archival or print-quality imagery. It has support for multiple layers, multiple colour channels (RGB as well as CMYK, which is essential for accurate print rendering), and everything is preserved exactly as it was seen on-screen when being composed. There are compressed versions available, they use similar methods to PNG in order to maintain detail without sacrifice; next to whatever your graphics program uses natively, this is the most interchangeable format available for professional use.
DPI is important only when used in combination with image dimensions; in and of itself it serves no purpose. If you make a brilliantly detailed 640×480 image & set it to 300dpi, you’ll receive a brilliantly detailed 2 inch x 1.6 inch print. This is great if you want to make a postage stamp, but not if you’re creating an A4 flyer! Determine the image’s dimension then set the DPI accordingly; 72dpi isn’t hideous especially for text-heavy work (it’s ~3 pixels per millimeter), and 150dpi can be suitable for many images. Unless you’re interested in photo realism, 300dpi is usually overkill – for our hypothetical A4 flyer, you’d need a file of 2490×3510 pixels for edge to edge printing, with a correspondingly high memory requirement and filesize even if using a compressed format.
Keeping the layers intact is utterly unimportant for print work unless you want to use a separated colour print method that requires multiple passes to lay down each ink. If you send a file with all the layers, masks, etc. off for printing you’re liable to get it sent back unactioned, as they won’t want to take responsibility for choosing the wrong elements for printing. Save your work with everything intact, then save a flattened copy especially for printing purposes – this is one of the reasons Save Copy As… is a common option in graphics manipulation software.
This has been a Public Service Rebuttal.
FUCKING THANK YOU
As a designer who’s worked a few years for a newspaper, I cannot begin to tell you how much OP’s post made me cringe. I would have killed to get a photo as a TIFF for once instead of having to tear apart PDFs only to find a 50x100px 72dpi shitty JPEG inside for the 5 millionth time…
JPEG and PNG are best suited for web formats (and it is perfectly fine to save your web version as JPEG, that’s what it’s goddamn for). You will make a designer cry if you send a web-safe JPEG for print, however. And if you have a vectorized logo saved as EPS (or even better, AI), you will make that designer’s year.
On May 8,2015 the Ace Community will be posting photos and graphics of Ace cards to correspond with their orientations. This is not intended to be a selfie day, however if you would like to post a selfie WITH your card, that’s your prerogative.The delegations are as follows:
Ace of Hearts: Alloromantic Asexual – experiences romantic attraction regularly toward one or more genders. This includes orientations such as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, polyromantic, and panromantic.
Ace of Spades: Aromantic Asexual – does not experience romantic attraction toward any gender.
Ace of Diamonds: Demiromantic/Demisexual & Grey-aromantic/Grey-Asexual– Experiences romantic and/or sexual attraction only if a strong emotional bond is established. OR Experiences romantic/sexual attraction rarely, not strongly enough to act on, only under specific circumstances, or fluctuates between periods of experiencing attraction and not experiencing it.
Ace of Clubs: Questioning/Unsure of Orientation – Aware they fall on the aromantic and/or asexual spectrum, but not sure where.
Please spread the word on this and if you’re participating, be sure to tag your photos: #AceDay.
HEADS-UP!!
This has been moved to May 8, 2015 so as not to interfere with other movements!
A long time ago I had published a book called ‘letters home’ that was a fantasy story. I think it still lurks in my head, it was always intended to be more than just one book.
reblogging in case anony was a day person, I was up late last night.
Tiny family graveyards of half a dozen headstones, all but forgotten as they are reclaimed by cedar and oak.
Rusted barbed wire, faded flags, slowly decaying fence-posts. The bones of cattle, half hidden by waving grasses, bleached by the sun. At least, you hope they’re cattle.
Tiny ghost towns less than ten miles from sprawling cities, yet farther away than the moon.
In Spring bluebonnets carpet the hillsides; you sit amongst them to have your picture taken, but faintly you hear whispers. The sun is warm, the breeze is gentle, you begin to feel sleepy…
Remember the Alamo. Remember the Alamo. None of us can forget the Alamo. None of us can forget the Alamo, no matter how hard we try.
Ghost lights flicker at the top of Enchanted Rock, Tonkawa warriors trying to find their way home.
The Heart of Texas isn’t just a figure of speech. it exists, beating, in the hills. It exists, and it can be killed.
Limestone caverns dripping with moisture, stretching below the earth, emitting cool air like the hissing breath of a great beast. It smells like sulfur.
The stars at night are big and bright. Much too big, much too bright.
A baptismal cut from the rock of the creek bed, once used by the congregation of a nearby church, now little more than crumbling stone. The creek is long dry. When you climb down the shallow steps and stand in the oblong depression, the birdsong turns to voices, hymns, praise to god, but not the god of Abraham. When you wake several hours later, there is something else behind your eyes. You are born again.
No one would want to Keep Austin Weird if they knew how terribly, mind-bogglingly, horrifyingly weird it really is (it probably has something to do with the bats).
Having lived in the hill country.. some of these are so very legit. So verrry legit.
