White Collar 20in20 - What Happens in Burma

[tj_teejay]

Round 8 of wcollar20in20 is on. Here's your teaser. I signed up for episode "What Happens in Burma".

   

10 THEMES

Accessory	Actor	Black & White	Faceless	Green
Outside	Plus One	Sideways	Smile	Text

5 CATEGORY – Crops

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

Original screencap used for "Crops" (5 different crops of the same image):



Credit: Screencaps by killmotion. Image for "Actor" from mattbomerfan.com. Lyrics used in "Faceless" are from Rihanna's Skin.

Comments

[tj-teejay.livejournal.com]

Spelling mistakes happen. Even to the best of us. ;o) (Did I mention English is not my first language?)

Just like you've never used PhotoPaint, I've never seriously used Photoshop. I have installed it out of curiosity once, but I didn't take more than a cursory glance. I know enough that it's similar to PhotoPaint, but the buttons and menus are different and also called differently sometimes. I'm sure that if I put my mind to it, I could use it just as well as PhotoPaint, but it'd be a learning curve. So why make the effort when I'm happy with PhotoPaint?

All the functions you mentioned in Photoshop, I use those too quite often. Layers are called objects in PhotoPaint, but they're the same thing. I often use the Exclusion function, sometimes screen, hue or overlay. PhotoPaint has an Image Adjustment Lab that I use a lot for brightening/contrast/color hue. There's also a really cool plugin I use a lot, called Virtual Photographer by OptikVerve Labs. I think it works in Photoshop too.

Virtualkaty and sallyna_smile are icon gods. I am so in awe. LOL

I've been doing graphics editing for years, just never on a small scale like working in a 100x100 pixel space. I started out making wallpapers, collages and webdesign, now I still do that sometimes, but it's more editing of my digital photos. I bought an SLR camera in 2008 and love using it.

Btw, this is the first time I'm participating in an icon challenge comm, and it's been so much fun! I also do two other WC challenge comms on occasion, but one of them just closed down due to too few submissions.

[tj-teejay.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't mind if you friend me. I just added you too. I don't post a lot of f-locked stuff, but there are a handful of entries I've locked.

My first language is German. I have a few German friends on my flist, so you might read comments in German here sometimes. All my entries are in English, though. I write a lot of White Collar fanfic too, all in English.

I've actually looked at GIMP because I was curious. I found it quite user-unfriendly, I must say. I think I was trying to do a transition gradient with it, and it took me ages to figure out how to do it. In PhotoPaint it's just two clicks. In GIMP it was like you needed to read a whole manual first before you even grasped the concept of how to do it. Maybe it was just me being stupid, but that kinda turned me off, wishing to use GIMP more. I still think it's cool that there's a halfway decent photo editing freeware out there.

I'm not sure if there's another program that uses objects rather than layers. Not that I think it really matters. Essentially, it's the same thing, just called differently.

I love playing with the exclusion function. For me, it works best with the dark colors. I use it quite a lot.

As for Virtual Photographer, I can't tell you how to make it work with Photoshop because I have no clue how to import plugins into the software. I could tell you how to do it in PhotoPaint, but that won't help you. In PhotoPaint, it shows up in the Plugins menu. And I think it's pretty self-explanatory, once you've added it to the plugins. Basically, what it does is that it applies different color and b/w filters (kinda like presets) to your image.

What do *I* do with it? Well, if I know I, for instance, want to transfor a color image to b/w, I usually try running it through the different b/w filters of Virtual Photographer to see if one of them works instead of just desaturating the image and adjusting the contrast/gamma/tones myself. They don't always work, though. I don't use the color filters so much.

The only real challenge comm other than the WC 20in20 I'm a member of is starfleet_hq. For White Collar, I also occasionally post entries for whitecollaric.