Wow been extremely busy, it's in the Stars.
Great to see everybody participating in the community and having fun getting to know one another. I have a little request... ok if any of you have seen it or noticed, one of the sites I had the Star portraits up on went down and is gone for good. Chibi Star has his own site too, and I give him all the credit he deserves for maintaining it and keeping it up. We've had a few drop-outs in the stars, and some people who I would have liked to be part of the community but are just too busy or its not that relevant to them. Which is fine.
Back in the first quarter of my school (January) my iMac died on me. This was before I had my laptop and was able to move/back-up/ that sort of stuff, so I lost the original pictures I had done. Good news is, my photoshop skills have increased dramatically and I have all the original what I'd call "source files" to make them anew. I'm wondering about dimensions, right now I have it set at 1024 X 786 @ 300 DPI. That's probably bigger than it needs to be but by the virtue of resampling and interpolation when I take something big and reduce it in size you get more detail and information (versus all of you should know what it's like trying to take a small picture and make it bigger, it looks like shit.) If I've removed any people from the Stars of Destiny List and/or the community, and you want back, please state so here. Also give your opinions on what size you think the star portraits would work, the dimensions I just gave right now are set at the maximum you can fit on your screen (wallpaper/desktop size) I could keep it that way, and make a duplicate of a different dimension for the LJ or whatever, you people tell me what you think. Also, another piece of business; Besides stating if you want to be in the community (again) if you're currently in, please state the star role you've occupied and the name you want written across it for everyone to see and know/addresse you by. Thus far, I have all the information I need from the following people:
4y4m3
tenjoukun (although I'd like to hear from you anyway Katie)
wolviepris
tiger_officer
arus2001
minty_ged
enixmoogle (hearing from you would be good too)
bladed_wing385 (just need to know what name you want on the new picture)
falseparagon
pokesephiroth
biz0unce
nikui_kuyami
That's MOST of you so I know the majority of who's what and wants what name, new-comers, this is the perfect opportunity. I have a very nice girl who's looking to fill the role of the Chiketsu Star, and a guy who I'm not sure about putting in the community. He has... an interesting personality, I'm sure there's a perfect star for him I just have to find it. He's just a little bit confrontational and a bit of a hot head. Chocoboco seems to have disappeared off the face of the digital universe so I should probably remove him. If anybody else has any other idea's or things to contribute here's the perfect time and place to do it. I've got my own website that I can do what I want with and host all the star portraits at. I'm working day and night in Photoshop on these Star Portraits, thats 3 images at least for each star, plus one extra picture for each character to better represent them, thats 6, times 108. That's a lot.
It'll upload and update itself regularly as soon as I complete another. Right now I'm in Geometry class struggling while we're on break to keep up typing everything he says as he says it. I know I haven't updated much it's been so busy, artists showcase, fanart contest at the bookstore, getting into an accident on the freeway (nothing major and NOT my fault this time, CLEARLY not my fault) I know I should be more active but I'm not like some people who have absolutely no lives and their LJ updates consist of...
"I got up this morning, out of bed, and walked to the bathroom to take a piss. End of update" and get like 100 comments consisting of things like "OMG I KNOW DOESN'T THAT SUCK?!" and "OMG THAT IS SO FUNNY HAHA I'VE NEVER DONE THAT!" and " " <--- insert Geek Talk here. You may laugh or think I'm exagerating, but just take a look.
Like the Montey Python says, "And now for something completely different." Chocoboco always amazed me with his LJ. If I wanted to know what new game just got released all I have to do is check out his LJ layout. If they released a new Mario game in 2 weeks, tomorrow his LJ layout and icons would be ALL MARIO, and specifically all mario pictures from the new game. If they released a new Legend of Dragoon in a month, next week his LJ layout and icons would be all dragoon. It's just amazing and astounds me how much time he has to be able to COMPLETELY switch his layout to whatever new trendy game is coming out, down to the words for leaving a comment and comments posted and all that. My God, when I get tired of my layout I think I should commission him to do mine for me while I'm at it cuz I'm so busy. Alright thats enough of an update for now, time to get back to evil Geometry.
Back in the first quarter of my school (January) my iMac died on me. This was before I had my laptop and was able to move/back-up/ that sort of stuff, so I lost the original pictures I had done. Good news is, my photoshop skills have increased dramatically and I have all the original what I'd call "source files" to make them anew. I'm wondering about dimensions, right now I have it set at 1024 X 786 @ 300 DPI. That's probably bigger than it needs to be but by the virtue of resampling and interpolation when I take something big and reduce it in size you get more detail and information (versus all of you should know what it's like trying to take a small picture and make it bigger, it looks like shit.) If I've removed any people from the Stars of Destiny List and/or the community, and you want back, please state so here. Also give your opinions on what size you think the star portraits would work, the dimensions I just gave right now are set at the maximum you can fit on your screen (wallpaper/desktop size) I could keep it that way, and make a duplicate of a different dimension for the LJ or whatever, you people tell me what you think. Also, another piece of business; Besides stating if you want to be in the community (again) if you're currently in, please state the star role you've occupied and the name you want written across it for everyone to see and know/addresse you by. Thus far, I have all the information I need from the following people:
4y4m3
tenjoukun (although I'd like to hear from you anyway Katie)
wolviepris
tiger_officer
arus2001
minty_ged
enixmoogle (hearing from you would be good too)
bladed_wing385 (just need to know what name you want on the new picture)
falseparagon
pokesephiroth
biz0unce
nikui_kuyami
That's MOST of you so I know the majority of who's what and wants what name, new-comers, this is the perfect opportunity. I have a very nice girl who's looking to fill the role of the Chiketsu Star, and a guy who I'm not sure about putting in the community. He has... an interesting personality, I'm sure there's a perfect star for him I just have to find it. He's just a little bit confrontational and a bit of a hot head. Chocoboco seems to have disappeared off the face of the digital universe so I should probably remove him. If anybody else has any other idea's or things to contribute here's the perfect time and place to do it. I've got my own website that I can do what I want with and host all the star portraits at. I'm working day and night in Photoshop on these Star Portraits, thats 3 images at least for each star, plus one extra picture for each character to better represent them, thats 6, times 108. That's a lot.
It'll upload and update itself regularly as soon as I complete another. Right now I'm in Geometry class struggling while we're on break to keep up typing everything he says as he says it. I know I haven't updated much it's been so busy, artists showcase, fanart contest at the bookstore, getting into an accident on the freeway (nothing major and NOT my fault this time, CLEARLY not my fault) I know I should be more active but I'm not like some people who have absolutely no lives and their LJ updates consist of...
"I got up this morning, out of bed, and walked to the bathroom to take a piss. End of update" and get like 100 comments consisting of things like "OMG I KNOW DOESN'T THAT SUCK?!" and "OMG THAT IS SO FUNNY HAHA I'VE NEVER DONE THAT!" and " " <--- insert Geek Talk here. You may laugh or think I'm exagerating, but just take a look.
Like the Montey Python says, "And now for something completely different." Chocoboco always amazed me with his LJ. If I wanted to know what new game just got released all I have to do is check out his LJ layout. If they released a new Mario game in 2 weeks, tomorrow his LJ layout and icons would be ALL MARIO, and specifically all mario pictures from the new game. If they released a new Legend of Dragoon in a month, next week his LJ layout and icons would be all dragoon. It's just amazing and astounds me how much time he has to be able to COMPLETELY switch his layout to whatever new trendy game is coming out, down to the words for leaving a comment and comments posted and all that. My God, when I get tired of my layout I think I should commission him to do mine for me while I'm at it cuz I'm so busy. Alright thats enough of an update for now, time to get back to evil Geometry.