Comments | starrylizard: Cover Art and icons: Do Not Go Gentle

starrylizard

Cover Art and icons: Do Not Go Gentle

Mar 18, 2006 22:28

I decided to have a play with photo shop CS, since I currently have a 30 day trial version, and was inspired by the fic Do Not Go Gentle by forlornhope42 which I read avidly every week. In the fic John is a Leukemia patient and Rodney is sent to keep him company...of course they fall in love. (Currently up to chapter 65 and still going...I don't mind if it ( Read more... )

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kyokoaegis March 18 2006, 13:12:54 UTC

Wow! Just wow! That is truly beautiful! It's the perfect cover for Skein's story, and Rodney's so cute ^^ Also I don't like butterflies at all, but on your fanart it looks cute and sweet... (and Sheppard's is looking much better with the hat)
Also technical question, what is the colour effect you used? it's really beautiful ^^

starrylizard March 18 2006, 13:37:54 UTC

Thanks! ^_^

I'm only just learning about photoshop. I'd love to be able to manipulate things...like stick people's heads on other bodies and stuff, but I can never do it. *le sigh* I have yet to figure out blending options and such.

The colouring effect is one I recently read about in a Photoshop magazine. Basically you set the image to Greyscale. Then you go image > image mode > Duotone and chose the tritone option. Then you select the other two tones you want to use. In this case I chose a darkish blue and a sort of burnt orange colour.

kyokoaegis March 18 2006, 14:24:09 UTC

I'd love to be able to manipulate things...like stick people's heads on other bodies and stuff, but I can never do it
I never tried too... It's probably not easy to do ^^ For the moment I'm just added new scalps to someone's head (like I did twice for Joe), or put two characters together on the same picture... And even that is not an easy thing to do, because the lightness/contrast is not exactly the same so the result is sometimes weird.

And thanks for the tutorial ^^ I'll see if I can translate it in PSP, because it's really beautiful.

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starrylizard March 18 2006, 23:06:59 UTC

Thanks.
Blur tool huh. I'll give that one a shot. There are several tools that seem to be for blending, but I'm yet to figure them out. There's a sponge too, but I can't quite figure out what it does. Tips always, always appreciated, so thanks again. :D

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starrylizard March 18 2006, 23:09:32 UTC

Point away. I LOVE comments! :D

You're most welcome. I'm glad you like it. I was just playing around with the program and it was a lot of fun.

*hands you a tissue* :D

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starrylizard March 19 2006, 21:07:08 UTC

*blushes and hugs*

mecurtin March 18 2006, 19:17:56 UTC

This is really great. I'm glad you did the Bald!John manip, because it emphasizes (which the fic often lets me forget) how very different than the usual Sheppard he looks in this story. And I *love* the Rodney-expression, great choice.

starrylizard March 18 2006, 23:12:36 UTC

Thanks!
The bald manip that kyokoaegis made was pretty freaky for me, so I couldn't help but use it...though I had to add a cap. Can't have him too weird-looking. *grins*

knights_13 March 18 2006, 23:14:55 UTC

WOW!!! Nice job. That's a beautiful cover for Skein's story. I love how you worked all the key stuff into it. :)

starrylizard March 18 2006, 23:34:09 UTC

Thanks ^_^
It was fun!