carry on my wayward son

[evergleam]

Ugh.

My mouth has been sore for three days now. I can't figure out what's wrong with it, and I want it to go away so I can start eating food in no pain again.

Also, I sat down tonight to read and couldn't concentrate, so I flipped on some Farscape and promptly fell asleep. At some point I must have woken up long enough to turn off the television, but I slept for about three hours. At 9pm, I sat up with a start and saw the clock and nearly freaked out because I thought I was late for work, but then I looked out the window. And yeah, still dark. But that stupid three hour nap means I'll be up half the night. I almost missed Brock's phone call, too. But I didn't! And I got to go see Anchorman, and it was HIGHlariouis. And I want to see it again. And again. And at some point I think this should have become a new paragraph.

We went to Denny's after the movie and were in and out in under an hour, a new record I think. :P

Seriously, you should go see that movie, though. It was one of those movies where something totally random got me started laughing, and ten minutes later I would still be laughing about it. Kind of like Legolas in RotK -- "A diversion!" That still cracks me up.

Arrrgh. I'm going to visit Stew tomorrow after work to pick up where left off on the Angel-a-thon. Then it's off to Atlantic City for the weekend, which will be looooads of fun. Cause I LOOOOOVE the beach, and if you didn't know that by now you're stoopid. ;) AND I get paid on Friday, so I'll even have money for this weekend. There is no bad here.

I think I'm going to go to sleep now. Possibly post the results for fireflicons because I'm like three days late with them. But probably go to sleep. Or toss in bed for a few hours until I fall asleep again. Either way. :P

Comments

[rheostat.livejournal.com]

How did you get the smooth air brushed type effect on Mal in the 'Spaceboy I missed you' icon?
or was it just nice lighting in the cap?

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Mostly what I did, after brightening the cap, was to zoom in really close and use the blur tool set at about 20-30% opacity to blur Mal's face. After that, I zoomed back out and duplicated the layer and sharpened it, reducing the opacity until the jagged edges were gone.

Another technique I sometimes use is to apply the median filter, which can be found under Filter->Noise->Median, and reduce the opacity of the layer to about 40%. Then I add a layer mask, and use the brush tool in the color black to erase the parts over the eyes and nose and streaks in the hair and such to give it a little more clarity.

Hope that makes sense! Let me know if you have anymore questions, or check out my memories, cause there are a ton of great tutorials there. :)