FAIL
Dunno if I should add it to the long rant that is the profile, or just observe it, but...
...these days, I find, if I moan about something, I mostly ask people to sympathise or agree instead of encouragement or pats on the back or hugs. Not that I'll say no to the huggles, but the last thing I put up on the chatporn comm seemed to get exactly the sort of comments that pissed me right off.
Namely, because I was frustrated at being unable to Photoshop a steampunky fucking machine torture chair Doctor/Master fantasy. The likelihood of finding the right source images and the right body angles is, logically speaking, too fucking ridiculous to even try. Which is the sign of a good Photoshopper--knowing when to quit. Knowing when not to force an image, 'cos it'll look shite. And as you may have noticed, I still keep throwing up the odd shite image. Yet, it's still fucking frustrating not to be able to put those fantasies into a picture. But... for fuckssakes, maybe I'm being too harsh and people are being totally fucking unaware of how difficult, how dependant on the right source pics manips are. I shouldn't expect it, but somehow I still do. It can't be just Photoshop geeks who know that. If an image is unshoppable, encouragement isn't somehow magically going to make it 'shoppable. It's like telling someone they can fly if they're about to jump off a rooftop, because, hey, all they need is encouragement and the Right Attitude. And you might end up in 1973.
Just... grah. Anyway. I hope ranting will make people more aware of how it really, really is all about whether source pics exist or not. And whether anyone even marginally good at manipping will know whether there's scope for finding any, from the basis of the massive amounts of images they have to go through all the time (literally, thousands per day for several days for some images). Srsly.
And now back to your regularly scheduled Photoshop fuckwittery. I may not be able to illustrate my wank fantasies or my favourite fanfic scenes at the moment, but I sure as fuck can do Ten in stupid situations. *gets cracking*
...these days, I find, if I moan about something, I mostly ask people to sympathise or agree instead of encouragement or pats on the back or hugs. Not that I'll say no to the huggles, but the last thing I put up on the chatporn comm seemed to get exactly the sort of comments that pissed me right off.
Namely, because I was frustrated at being unable to Photoshop a steampunky fucking machine torture chair Doctor/Master fantasy. The likelihood of finding the right source images and the right body angles is, logically speaking, too fucking ridiculous to even try. Which is the sign of a good Photoshopper--knowing when to quit. Knowing when not to force an image, 'cos it'll look shite. And as you may have noticed, I still keep throwing up the odd shite image. Yet, it's still fucking frustrating not to be able to put those fantasies into a picture. But... for fuckssakes, maybe I'm being too harsh and people are being totally fucking unaware of how difficult, how dependant on the right source pics manips are. I shouldn't expect it, but somehow I still do. It can't be just Photoshop geeks who know that. If an image is unshoppable, encouragement isn't somehow magically going to make it 'shoppable. It's like telling someone they can fly if they're about to jump off a rooftop, because, hey, all they need is encouragement and the Right Attitude. And you might end up in 1973.
Just... grah. Anyway. I hope ranting will make people more aware of how it really, really is all about whether source pics exist or not. And whether anyone even marginally good at manipping will know whether there's scope for finding any, from the basis of the massive amounts of images they have to go through all the time (literally, thousands per day for several days for some images). Srsly.
And now back to your regularly scheduled Photoshop fuckwittery. I may not be able to illustrate my wank fantasies or my favourite fanfic scenes at the moment, but I sure as fuck can do Ten in stupid situations. *gets cracking*