LAYOUT!!!!
Alright, so instead of finishing the next chapter of Taking Back Sunday, I decided to play with photoshop and make that program to be my bitch. I was screwing with different colourings and playing with taking watermarks off of pictures of Brand New and Jesse Lacey because he is too sexxy for me to not be able to see his face when I want to.
So then, I wasn't going to, but then I decided that icons were not working out nicely and I had some interesting ideas for pictures. I wanted to take pictures of Jesse and make them look like they were popping out of the picture frames by making the background smaller and laying the extracted image of him over top. Then I wanted to make the picture look like it was zooming out or zooming in or something, so I layered the picture and made the back layer bright, the middle layer desaturated and brighter with more contrast, and then put the original image over top and then over top of that whole compilation I stuck the larger image of Jesse. Then I decided that the background image was too bright and took away from the Jesse image and that just wasn't nice. So I duplicated it and desaturated the top layer and set it on... I think soft light. I also used Stroke in blending options to get a single pixel outline of each zoom of the image and then duplicated the image one more time, put it at the back, and overlayed it with solid white to get the outline for the pictures. Then I still thought that it was kind of distracting with the picture of other people (although I LOVE VinnieBrianGarrett), so I covered them in bloooood. I fucked around with the colouring of the front pictures, but I don't remember what I did to make them look the way they do. I know I went into selective colouring and then duplicated the layer and used Overlay at like 65%, but I don't remember specifics.
The right side Jesse was done in the same way as the previous ones, but this time I rotated the image as well as increasing the size and I had to use a whole bunch of background white to cover the whole area for the "chalk outline". I used the same colouring here, but for the middle image I desaturated and brightened and contrasted it, and the back one I darkened and contrasted and I think I changed some colouring, but I don't remember if I kept that or if I reverted. It looks fairly similar to the top layer, so prolly that was what I did.
Then, because I hate using plain black backgrounds, I grabbed another image and desaturated it, overlayed it on itself, and darkened it. I also reversed the image so that instead of seeing Brian (randomly) you still see Jesse in the picture.
Then, finally, the grey back thinger, I just pasted a rectangular layer, made an ellipse for the corner, and cut off the edge. I used the pen feature to get the dotted lines and the pixel column selection marquee tool to get the solid lines.
The font is Dyspepsia and Arial for the bottom. I had to use an Arc warp and different sizing and rotation to get the text to contour like that. There was probably an easier way, but I didn't know it, so that was what I went with.
It's interesting to note that until I was putting the text touches onto the image, I didn't even think about what lyrics I would use or the fact that there was blood and an outline that looked shockingly like a chalk outline around Jesse. So the lyrics were extremely appropriate, although completely unintentional. That is what happens when subliminally, Jesse is communicating with me telepathically. I don't know. It's fucking 3 am. Making sense doesn't work.
It then took me fucking 2 hours to do the damn CSS... and I don't know why I always sound angry when I talk about stuff like that that takes forever. If I didn't LOVE fucking with this shit, I wouldn't do it on a regular basis. I spent 2 hours because it was fun and I wanted to see how much better I could make it. I made it pretty fucking good. It rocks the hell out of everything that exists right now.
I'm annoyed, now, though, because I have to change my titles for the webpage, so I have to think of appropriate lyrics. And then... I have to... shit... I just forgot what I was talking about. Maybe I am tired. That must be it. Lemme think........ maybe it was that I have to get up early? Oh, no! I remember! I was going to make ICONS and then it didn't work out that way because I couldn't figure out what to do for an icon. So I want icons and have none. Annoyed!!!
So tomorrow? Dad turns 60. Well apparently... today... since it is after midnight. I got him awesome amazing stuff. Like a SONG that I wrote from a poem that I wrote 7 years ago that he LOVES and I got him a picture. It's a poster of billiard balls and a cue, the 8 mostly with the 13 in the background. It is brown and white and I have a black frame for it because Kyle's work sucks and destroyed the only brown frame that existed there. So that is for tomorrow.
Oh, I was going to put stuff about Nicole and her plans for tomorrow night, but mom checks up and this will be a public entry. So maybe later.
Alright, well... I am fucking tired. I am going to go to bed. And also shower. Well... shower first. Maybe. Maybe bed first. Must not sleep in shower.
Someone make me a new Jesse icon plzkthx. OR! A Garrett one because I am fucking incompetent and have ZERO good pictures of him and I have TRIED to make a good icon at least 20 times before and failed. So GARRETT!!!!! Someone? I love you?
So then, I wasn't going to, but then I decided that icons were not working out nicely and I had some interesting ideas for pictures. I wanted to take pictures of Jesse and make them look like they were popping out of the picture frames by making the background smaller and laying the extracted image of him over top. Then I wanted to make the picture look like it was zooming out or zooming in or something, so I layered the picture and made the back layer bright, the middle layer desaturated and brighter with more contrast, and then put the original image over top and then over top of that whole compilation I stuck the larger image of Jesse. Then I decided that the background image was too bright and took away from the Jesse image and that just wasn't nice. So I duplicated it and desaturated the top layer and set it on... I think soft light. I also used Stroke in blending options to get a single pixel outline of each zoom of the image and then duplicated the image one more time, put it at the back, and overlayed it with solid white to get the outline for the pictures. Then I still thought that it was kind of distracting with the picture of other people (although I LOVE VinnieBrianGarrett), so I covered them in bloooood. I fucked around with the colouring of the front pictures, but I don't remember what I did to make them look the way they do. I know I went into selective colouring and then duplicated the layer and used Overlay at like 65%, but I don't remember specifics.
The right side Jesse was done in the same way as the previous ones, but this time I rotated the image as well as increasing the size and I had to use a whole bunch of background white to cover the whole area for the "chalk outline". I used the same colouring here, but for the middle image I desaturated and brightened and contrasted it, and the back one I darkened and contrasted and I think I changed some colouring, but I don't remember if I kept that or if I reverted. It looks fairly similar to the top layer, so prolly that was what I did.
Then, because I hate using plain black backgrounds, I grabbed another image and desaturated it, overlayed it on itself, and darkened it. I also reversed the image so that instead of seeing Brian (randomly) you still see Jesse in the picture.
Then, finally, the grey back thinger, I just pasted a rectangular layer, made an ellipse for the corner, and cut off the edge. I used the pen feature to get the dotted lines and the pixel column selection marquee tool to get the solid lines.
The font is Dyspepsia and Arial for the bottom. I had to use an Arc warp and different sizing and rotation to get the text to contour like that. There was probably an easier way, but I didn't know it, so that was what I went with.
It's interesting to note that until I was putting the text touches onto the image, I didn't even think about what lyrics I would use or the fact that there was blood and an outline that looked shockingly like a chalk outline around Jesse. So the lyrics were extremely appropriate, although completely unintentional. That is what happens when subliminally, Jesse is communicating with me telepathically. I don't know. It's fucking 3 am. Making sense doesn't work.
It then took me fucking 2 hours to do the damn CSS... and I don't know why I always sound angry when I talk about stuff like that that takes forever. If I didn't LOVE fucking with this shit, I wouldn't do it on a regular basis. I spent 2 hours because it was fun and I wanted to see how much better I could make it. I made it pretty fucking good. It rocks the hell out of everything that exists right now.
I'm annoyed, now, though, because I have to change my titles for the webpage, so I have to think of appropriate lyrics. And then... I have to... shit... I just forgot what I was talking about. Maybe I am tired. That must be it. Lemme think........ maybe it was that I have to get up early? Oh, no! I remember! I was going to make ICONS and then it didn't work out that way because I couldn't figure out what to do for an icon. So I want icons and have none. Annoyed!!!
So tomorrow? Dad turns 60. Well apparently... today... since it is after midnight. I got him awesome amazing stuff. Like a SONG that I wrote from a poem that I wrote 7 years ago that he LOVES and I got him a picture. It's a poster of billiard balls and a cue, the 8 mostly with the 13 in the background. It is brown and white and I have a black frame for it because Kyle's work sucks and destroyed the only brown frame that existed there. So that is for tomorrow.
Oh, I was going to put stuff about Nicole and her plans for tomorrow night, but mom checks up and this will be a public entry. So maybe later.
Alright, well... I am fucking tired. I am going to go to bed. And also shower. Well... shower first. Maybe. Maybe bed first. Must not sleep in shower.
Someone make me a new Jesse icon plzkthx. OR! A Garrett one because I am fucking incompetent and have ZERO good pictures of him and I have TRIED to make a good icon at least 20 times before and failed. So GARRETT!!!!! Someone? I love you?