Friday, 30 December 2011
http://abductedteen.tumblr.com
''The term “Sea Punk,” perhaps originally taken from the work of photographer Andrew Ceciliato, now has come to refer to a unique style of fashion that incorporates the shock value of punk and the “kawaii” nature of mermaids. The movement mixes studs, spikes, colored hair, seashells, aliens, yin yang and other religious/spiritual symbols, and other oddball items. The ideas of punk can be seen in its rather shocking, rebellious nature. A very “kawaii”-like fashion style, Sea Punk incorporates hair colors like pink, blue, and green. Main inspirations are japanese street fashion, punk, and internet fashion.''
Thursday, 29 December 2011
http://esp1987.tumblr.com/
'' 5kinandbone5 asked: yo can you give some pointers on making gifs at the sizes you do? they are so big ...i am new to this :P
Okay I don’t normally do text posts but I figure this is as good a reason as any. I’m not totally sure what you mean by your questions, but I’ll give you a general outline of things I do to make my gifs look decent at a large size and keep the file size below 500k as often as possible.
#1 I often work by combining multiple images. When one is already in .gif format, it has a limited color palette and hard edges. If I want to resize it for the new image, I use the “nearest neighbor” setting in the Image size dialogue of Photoshop. You also have to choose size percentages in multiples of two (200%, 400%, 800% so on) or factors of two (50%, 25%, 12.5% so on). This will preserve the hard edge and shape of the pixels in the original as much as possible. It works better with enlargement than reduction, but it stops photoshop from adding transitional colors to the image that will muck up the palette later.
#2 if I’m using a jpg or a png for something that will end up as a gif, i first save that still as a gif using save for web in photoshop, and get the palette as low as possible. if you use dispersion color and transparency dither when you save here, photoshop doesn’t have to figure it out later, which ultimately saves disk space.
#3 optimize your animation by selecting all the frames in the animation palette, right clicking on the lower left hand corner of one of the frames, and making sure that the ‘frame disposal’ is set to ‘automatic’
#4 you don’t need as many frames as you think you do. if something is moving fast, you need fewer frames to create a convincing illusion. many of my rotating 3d objects/text are only 10 frames per second
#5 if you want to make the edges of something look good when you’re cutting it out of the background, it’s ok to use quick selection for things where there’s a clear contrast between foreground and background, just make sure that you use the “refine edge” dialogue (smoothing, contrast, and smart radius are what you should play with) to get the edge as clean as possible. otherwise it’s best to use quick mask, where you can use the paintbrush tool to paint the area of a selection. just hit q and paint w/ hard edged brushes in black (selected) white (deselected). try to zoom in as far as you can so you can get your edges clean
Other than that, if I still can’t get a gif I really like under 500k w/o ruining it, I save it to my webspace and either put it in a text post in an image tag, or in the caption to an image post with a much lower res version as the initial image.
Hope that helps.
-Icky Ricky
''
wow so helpful !!!
Okay I don’t normally do text posts but I figure this is as good a reason as any. I’m not totally sure what you mean by your questions, but I’ll give you a general outline of things I do to make my gifs look decent at a large size and keep the file size below 500k as often as possible.
#1 I often work by combining multiple images. When one is already in .gif format, it has a limited color palette and hard edges. If I want to resize it for the new image, I use the “nearest neighbor” setting in the Image size dialogue of Photoshop. You also have to choose size percentages in multiples of two (200%, 400%, 800% so on) or factors of two (50%, 25%, 12.5% so on). This will preserve the hard edge and shape of the pixels in the original as much as possible. It works better with enlargement than reduction, but it stops photoshop from adding transitional colors to the image that will muck up the palette later.
#2 if I’m using a jpg or a png for something that will end up as a gif, i first save that still as a gif using save for web in photoshop, and get the palette as low as possible. if you use dispersion color and transparency dither when you save here, photoshop doesn’t have to figure it out later, which ultimately saves disk space.
#3 optimize your animation by selecting all the frames in the animation palette, right clicking on the lower left hand corner of one of the frames, and making sure that the ‘frame disposal’ is set to ‘automatic’
#4 you don’t need as many frames as you think you do. if something is moving fast, you need fewer frames to create a convincing illusion. many of my rotating 3d objects/text are only 10 frames per second
#5 if you want to make the edges of something look good when you’re cutting it out of the background, it’s ok to use quick selection for things where there’s a clear contrast between foreground and background, just make sure that you use the “refine edge” dialogue (smoothing, contrast, and smart radius are what you should play with) to get the edge as clean as possible. otherwise it’s best to use quick mask, where you can use the paintbrush tool to paint the area of a selection. just hit q and paint w/ hard edged brushes in black (selected) white (deselected). try to zoom in as far as you can so you can get your edges clean
Other than that, if I still can’t get a gif I really like under 500k w/o ruining it, I save it to my webspace and either put it in a text post in an image tag, or in the caption to an image post with a much lower res version as the initial image.
Hope that helps.
-Icky Ricky
''
wow so helpful !!!
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
- got im getting really wierd and competative and freaked out on tumblr tonight
- lol
- putting your art out there like that is scary when people actually start rating u and stuff
- total notes fiend
- I know right
- it is like a virus
- it gets so addictive
- im making some good work tho, and it would seem very original out of the context of tumblr haha
- if i showed what im putting on tumblr in a crit at chelsea everyone would be like whoa thats so different
- but on tumblr its just completely part of a set style
- i guess thats how artists usually work though
- in movement
- s
- haha tumblr art movement
- lol
- whats your tumblr?
- shneeto
- u like my posts sometimes
- maybe without realising its me
- haha
- oh
- maybe
- lolol
- lets ee
- is that your ass in the swimming pool
- /
- ?
- haha i wish
- not that my ass isnt as nice as that just that its not getting grabbed in a pool
- so would i
- so would you wat
- I wish it was your ass
- i did dabble in cam4 a couple of times but never showed my ass, so it really hasnt been put on the internet yet haha but you never know
- exactly
- as an art work
- haha yeah
- theres a website called ustream have u heard of it?
- no
- nice editing of images pearl
- marry me
- haha how can u tell which ones are mine, ive only ever posted like 4 original things
- i mean youre selection
- having a blog
- is like editing a magazine
- I meant
- the whole thing
- not your art work
- ohhh thankyou!
- that makes the whole process seem much more valid
- even though
- at some point people
- need to stop existing
- under other people's existences
- and references
- that is why
- i keep my fb
- like a tumblr
- since everyone else
- does it so personal
- and my tumblr
- just for my work
- or anything related
- and once in a while a personal thing
- because it's really easy to create something out of other people's creations
- and its not that great
- or genius
- agreed
- having your facebook like tumblr seems more genuine
- like people try and represent this false image of themselves
- when its your interests and passions that more acurately represent you in a place like this
- yeah, and it helps me saying
- what I want
- without
- being too lame
- haha
- etc etc
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