The Ink Spot

Ryan

2:05 AM

lets see @johnp or anyone really around? @RedRiderX ?

RedRiderX

I'm around but admittedly a lurker

Ryan

I just need an opinion on audio quality. My laptop could barely keep up when making this video. I tried to clean it up a little but think its still really really bad.

RedRiderX

@Ryan Are the tolerances such that someone accidentally opening the door would ruing the whole thing?

Ryan

Debating on publishing it or starting over to see if I can get it better

When developing film you put the film, a can opener like thing, and this enclosed reel thing into a big sealed bag. It then has sleeves for your arms to go in and you transfer the film from the canister to the reel blind in the bag

Now if you're talking about processing from negative to paper, than ya that would be another issue entirely

RedRiderX

@Ryan It's serviceable, it gets a little tinny on parts. What mic are you using?

Ryan

2:16 AM

Just the built in Mic on my mac. I have a proper one at my day job that I can take home with me I just forgot to

RedRiderX

Ah I'd say that could help you quite a bit.

But like I said it is serviceable.

Ryan

yeah think I'll hold off, redo the whole thing and guess publish it on Friday or Sunday instead. Shoot

thanks for the feedback!

RedRiderX

Hey no probs

Vincent

9:20 AM

@Luciano Please try not to force a style on other users when editing. I understand that questions are clearer and more to the point without any preamble, but please allow people to have their own styles and personalities :)

Getting rid of 'hi', and 'thanks' are great. If someone wants to explain what a project is for in a single paragraph, just let them. Lots of users even have to get used to the fact that their posts can be edited at all.

Luciano

10:06 AM

Hi @Vincent I'll tone my edits down a notch :)

PieBie

hey @Vincent, @Luciano

Luciano

11:26 AM

@PieBie o/

YOU

Hello

Is there any good way to add vintage effect to a photo?

like yellowish vintage

Luciano

Hi @YOU yes, photoshop and other image editors have lots of adjustments (saturation, hue)

Have you searched for any tutorials? there's an interesting tut here youtube.com/watch?v=_B8C5sHX2rM

YOU

Please advice me with a article

Luciano

soft light vintage look in photoshop | photo effects [ Episode 2 ]

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YOU

Thank you!

Vincent

11:57 AM

@Luciano thanks :)

and hi all

Ryan

12:29 PM

morning all

Luciano

afternoon o/

Ryan

was going to try to redo my video real quick so got to work a tad early... lawn crew is working outside >:(

Ryan

1:22 PM

morning @JohnB

JohnB

hi!

Ryan

I'm still trying to decide on whether I should redo my latest tutorial video to try for better audio quality

JohnB

the peanut tutorial? Or one you haven't uploaded yet?

Ryan

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/31737104/history

JohnB

ah. yeah that is a bit muffled :\

Ryan

1:29 PM

after about a minute of recording my weak laptop was struggling with the harddrive and fan and such making a ton of noise

I tried to fix it in Adobe Audition but it was pretty terrible

Redrider called it, "Serviceable" and another friend said, "Its not perfect but it wasn't enough to bother me"

What's your take? Bring a microphone home and redo it or publish as is?

JohnB

I don't have any difficulty understanding what you're saying, so I wouldn't say it's crucial

Ryan

hah I just redid it on my work computer since I can. At home it took 1hr15 minutes to save. On work computer its taking 1 minute 37 seconds.

JohnB

wow!

Ryan

yeah I really need a new computer at home :(

Luciano

1:55 PM

just don't wait until your comp dies, like I did :(

Ryan

@Luciano ouch thats unfortunate. At least when that happens its usually not the harddrive so you can try to get the HD out and not lose your data

Vincent

@Ryan been there

Luciano

In my case it was exactly my hard drive

Vincent

same here :D

I was prepared and had everything backed up just under a day prior

Luciano

I had the most important things backed up, but I lost a ton of photos I didn't back up

Vincent

1:59 PM

:(

Ryan

2:11 PM

well I don't think mine is anywhere near dying, its just too slow for what I'm trying to do in terms of screen recording design tutorials

Luciano

I thought mine was not dying until the hard-drive suddenly failed on me. It was also slow...

Ryan

the heck store.hp.com/us/en/…

that shape is so awkward and enormous

Luciano

another cube

if you have to open the case very often, the 45 degree is not a bad idea

Ryan

until you try to put it under your desk instead of on top of it

Luciano

i suppose it's made huge like that on purpose, because as a gamer you will want to show it off to your friends

bad news is you can't stack anything on top of it :D

Meta Graphic Design

2:25 PM

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Q: The accepted answer and not accepted answer blips have quite similar color

The accepted answer blip and the not accepted answer blip (vote accepted on and vote accepted off) have quite the same color. To many who are not visually accurate very much like myself, it becomes really confusing. In this question, I misclicked on the accepted answer to unaccept it thinking I d...

JohnB

3:23 PM

ah I meant to ask earlier in the week, how did your "serious gaming" session go over the weekend @Vincent?

Vincent

ended up being canceled :(

JohnB

aw boo :(

Vincent

I invited some ppl to come and play magic, but only one responded

so I ended up having time to play with my new Wacom. You win some, you lose some

Then again, tonight we will play Seasons

Ryan

more Wacom painting!

make anything pretty?

Vincent

sketching out some handlettering

Ryan

3:27 PM

In Illustrator or Photoshop?

Vincent

a phrase I've been wanting to turn into lettering for about two years now, finally picked it up

Ps

but I intend to turn it into a vector piece

JohnB

ooh great concept!

Vincent

not really happy with the composition yet, but really happy with how I can move around my 'pencil' sketches when it turns out they are not properly positioned

thx

Ryan

If you haven't already you might want to try one of these graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/37839/…

That looks really good though!

Vincent

Yeah I'm going to explore the Ai options later. Did some playing with the brush, and it looks very promising

but first I'd like to get a good hold of it in Ps

and thanks! bows :)

Ryan

3:31 PM

what I just linked at least Lazy Nezumi and I believe Hej Stylus works in both PS and AI

I don't like Lazy Nezumi for painting / masking but for sketching/drawing its a huge help I find

Vincent

hm, interesting

The one thing I've found out I think annoying in Ps is the fact that the brushes are... imperfect

Ryan

hows that?

Vincent

If I apply and re-apply brushes on an area to give it good colour intensity, these jpg-like artifacts appear

but maybe I'm working in too low a res

Ryan

not sure without a screenshot

Vincent

If I can't find anything about it, I will ask a question on it :)

Ryan

3:35 PM

I think if Mac doesn't come out with / announce anything new by October I'm going to definitely be switching to Windows either an All-In-One or Laptop

Vincent

@JohnB have you been playing any boardgames lately?

JohnB

yeah but nothing new, I'd like to try out Pandemic. A friend has it, I always just forget to suggest we play it

Seasons looks fun though!

Vincent

doesn't seem to be too complicated, but I hear good stories about it

joojaa

hi

JohnB

hey joojaa

joojaa

3:43 PM

I was at a job interview at the school of arts

JohnB

did it go alright?

joojaa

yeah at least they said so.

JohnB

nice!

Ryan

hi joojaa, that's cool

joojaa

Answered all the concerns that they had. IN most cases before they asked them

Cai

3:53 PM

@Vincent how come you edited but didn't delete this answer?

Vincent

@Cai hehe, that has a reason

@Ryan are you done with that?

Ryan

@Vincent that being?

Vincent

@Cai we had to try out some obscure functionality only available to mods

@Ryan there's a redaction waiting for your approval :D

Cai

Im intrigued

Ryan

hmm does it not do a blue diamond notification for redaction approvals?

Vincent

3:55 PM

the poster placed their mail address in the message. If that's edited, the address is still accessible in the revision history.

no, it creates a flag @Ryan

Ryan

I don't even see it in any notification list

Vincent

hm... I see it in mine.

Ryan

I see a flag

one sec ill show you screenshot

Vincent

@Cai Mods can 'redact' an edit, so it actually gets purged from the database, but it needs approval from another mod

Cai

Aah I see

Ryan

3:57 PM

so when people post images with their credit card or letterhead or some other stupid thing that can still be seen in Edit History we can remove it

Vincent

and yes, there is coughmoronscough who do that.

deleted.

Cai

Any need to protect that Q?

I have some recently acquired powers I need to exercise lol

Vincent

might be a plan. There's lot of chaff on there

Cai

My thoughts exactly

Done

joojaa

damn this is a well designed page:

nathansuniversity.com/pegs.html

from learning point of view. OK so he does some things a bit clunkily but still

Ryan

4:08 PM

cool convinced a girl I photographed once before to meet up and take some new pictures tonight. Moar content to make tutorials with!

Luciano

4:22 PM

cool! bye, c ya

Ryan

@Luciano take care

Vincent

I'm off too.

see ya guys 'round!

Ryan

bye @Vincent

joojaa

5:23 PM

bye

johnp

6:13 PM

hello room

hello stranger

any craic?

craic?

haha thought you'd recognize the irish slang...any crack? -what's up

always gets mistaken for drugs

Ryan

not much. Gotta redo the video I finished the other night. Not happy with the audio quality from my built in mic so going to take my work mic home with me

johnp

6:18 PM

was wondering if there were any cloud based editors you could use at home

so you wouldnt be relying on ur own cpu for processing

photoshop cc cloud was released for similar effect in CA or somewhere but I'm not sure how well it speeds up editing, if at all

wevideo.com

Ryan

I just need to buy something at least as powerful as my work computer which is an i7 with 16gb Ram and just an integrated graphics card

johnp

yeah, just thought it might be a nice option in the interim. I used to hate processing/converting videos

never mind 3d drawing references

Ryan

But now I just decided I want to go on a big trip and need to try to save $200/mo for the next year to be able to afford it :\ basically laptop + macro lens + filter will be my focus and put off monitor and film cameras and smaller trips and such to try and make it happen

And ^ will happen unlike some things when I say I'm "considering". Nope, I made up my mind and this big trip is happening either next year or the following depending on budget and work. Hopefully I can save enough to go next year

johnp

hehe that's great! and if you have any other temptations get the rubber band out :P

just think how happy you'll be when you get ur laptop

Ryan

you ever seen the flower fields of South Africa?

Until about 2 hours ago I didn't know they existed

johnp

6:31 PM

no, never been to Africa

Ryan

i mean photos

johnp

haha seemed more likely (need coffee)

they look amazing...you thinking of going?

Ryan

Set on it

A guy I know here in Orlando but originally from there posted those to Facebook today

johnp

very nice...the photo with the rusty car looks otherworldly

Ryan

Another friend of mine lives there and has been trying to get me to come visit for a while.

I'm sold. Just need to save $1800 USD for the flight

johnp

6:36 PM

that would be spectacular for macro shots

Ryan

the flowers are only during Aug/Sept

gives me one year to save and if I don't hit the mark I'll go the following year

johnp

nice deadline!

you have me googling flower fields now...

google.ie/…

south of france...there are plenty in Holland too...not wild though

as far as i can see

Ryan

Yeah I've seen Holland photos before. Not sure about France. I had no idea about South Africa though.

According to my friend its the most biodiverse flower fields in the world

If I could pick up enough freelance / tutorial ad revenue in time I'll stay for a few months. One of the few perks of being single at my age might as well take advantage of it haha

johnp

you'll have lots of fun over there. lol true

you could even go on safari if you stayed long enough

joojaa

why does not Adobe do side dependent offsets?

I mean its perfectly possible to do.

image form my post here

johnp

6:53 PM

has the offset path thing been updated in recent years?

i love inkscapes offset functions

joojaa

@johnp well they added the inside outside stroking its a offset

But again, had the engineering requirement (same as design biref essentially)
Said counterclockwise side and clockwise side then we would be able to set strokes on sides of open paths.

johnp

so you want to offset open paths?

perhaps you could add it to your range of illustrator plugins ;)

im debating whether to get lazynezumi

i can see it's great for lineart but im wondering how well it would work for sketching/crosshatching

Ryan

7:09 PM

I'm thinking about investing in shirts to promote my tutorials.

yay for marketing!

joojaa

@johnp i could but doing a offset is a bit nasty in terms of computation. There is however a write up on pomax github page so shouldn't be impossible to implement. Just that the javascipt API is really show for stuff like this.

johnp

lol. you could do some follow-along tutorials and ask users to post their work to your site?

joojaa

@Ryan maybe you should do a crazy low cost kickstarter?

johnp

i see

Ryan

I don't think that'll work just yet @johnp but once I have more subscribers and Instagram followers I will for sure do stuff like that

right now I'm thinking shirts to start with to give out to some friends that promise to actually wear it and then as soon as I hit 100 subscribers maybe do some sort of prize giveaway

I think once I publish the video I just made (but have to redo) it'll go a long ways. Its really that good of a video in terms of content so I'm willing to promote it a bit more than the others

Amazingly that peanut video got a lot more attention than I expected too

johnp

7:21 PM

lol

what was the title

Ryan

Rounding with Levels but I was more thinking on Instagram

johnp

i dont mean to question a marketing expert but will the shirts idea promote the site much you think? or is it a specific set of people who'll wear them?

joojaa

And it is by the way possible to offset only on one direction by playing around with brushes, but taht is a hack

Ryan

I think the shirts could be very helpful if done well and while it certainly helps if its worn by someone who's going to be around Designers and Photographers you never really know

johnp

yeah if you go a group of photographers wearing it, that'd be excellent

if you even gave it to a few photography tutors/classes?

Ryan

7:28 PM

Walking around a park or mall or college campus or something with a shirt that says, "Best Free Photoshop Tutorials" or something and the link then I could easily see two or three people checking it out

johnp

yeah

Gopher it @Ryan !

Ryan

so that doesn't need to be a photographer, that could be anyone. If they get stopped and aren't really a photographer they can just say its their friends brand and talk me up anyways

johnp

Chase & Status - Spoken Word ft. George The Poet

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Ryan

8:27 PM

@johnp do you understand that Lichtenstein stroke question?

johnp

i do but i dont know a solution that's fast for illustrator really

id do that sort of illustration in photoshop myself

Ryan

whats the stroke? the entire thing? or the smaller ones going across?

johnp

if you can use a multistroked hair brush in illustrator like photoshop and vary the pressure maybe

in that case it looks like the black was drawn over the white?

Ryan

I don't get what he wants a single stroke to look like

johnp

could use 2 rounded stroked lines and blend between but that's not a great sollution in my opinion

just looks like a hair highlight, dont have my tablet to hand right now to try it in illustrator

Ryan

8:32 PM

but is this what he wants?

or that?

johnp

oh i never considered that. i was thinking of drawing the horizontal black strokes as the white negative space lines dont look even

compared to the black

Ryan

I don't get where the pen is supposed to be

oh you thought the black part was the pen? That's a third option entirely lol

johnp

yup lol

can you use your summoner powers like in Final Fantasy?

Ryan

hes got enough rep to come in here on his own. I linked him in a comment

johnp

i wish there were more illustrators in chat so i could eat their brains

Ryan

8:40 PM

oooh but he does say, "I think about drawing one white stroke and using the effect to distort it" so might be my first sketch

BESW and Vincent both illustrate. JohnB knows Illustrator really well too

not sure if any do much lifelike stuff though if you're still trying to figure out the fabric creases

johnp

oh sorry, i mean like full on concept artist type illustrators

rather than illustration for design

digital painters i guess

haha i studied this fabric system book so i have most of that down, hopefully

may get some feedback before final inking to iron out any errors

Ryan

cubebrushx.com/forums

johnp

nice to be able to drape awkward anatomy lol...baggy clothes ftw!

oh nice thanks

joojaa

@Ryan its probably easier to make a white blob and draw the blaxk areas on top

johnp

another thing you could do...

have two strokes with variable width...the middle of the lines being thick and the ends thin so the middle lines merge when blended

the only thing is rounded corners, if the OP wants that

could draw a vertical line stroke and apply a jittered art brush and make the stoke width really wide also

Ryan

9:38 PM

so much better with Yeti Mic

Now to wait for it to save again :(

work 1 minute 27 seconds... home it estimates 52 minutes

johnp

10:02 PM

tick. tock.

Ryan

at least since the audio was good I only have to process once. When audio is bad I end up having to process it twice - once to bring it into Audition and then again to combine back with the footage

johnp

Ryan

lol

johnp

cant get enough of these nihilist images lately xD i thought you could process the audio a little in premiere or aftereffects without another app

Ryan

The audio was TERRIBLE with my built in mic so all you could hear was the fan. To clean that up I have to bring it into Adobe Audition but Adobe Audition can't separate Quicktime Audio from Video. So I have to first use Media Encoder to switch Quicktime (.MOV) to .mp4

Then for these long videos I load them into Premier to drop my website link in the corner.

johnp

10:18 PM

can i autotune your voice in Melodyne...imma make you a stahh

Ryan

go for it! Just be sure to link my youtube and/or instagram for the fame :D

johnp

i suspect that the voices for the affinity tutorials are highly processed...they all have that weird Siri thing going on

Ryan

on my work videos I've got a great preset down. If the audio wasn't pretty good already at home I saved it to my Google Drive before I went home today to use

Just didn't bother so I wouldn't have to process this one an extra time

Ryan

10:32 PM

2 minutes!

then the question is when to publish it for maximum impactasaurus since I missed Wednesday 5pm

johnp

Ryanosaurus

hard to find live internet usage stats that are useful....would be nice to know for my future posts

might be a good idea to go by facebook stats as most people tend to have that on in the background

johnp

11:48 PM