Lost and found! LOL

While trying to organize a ton of random PNG files and make my life a bit easier when I need to make my wallies I just found the test frames I made for my Kwangyeon wallie... (post here)

As I said at that time, I had to search and find an apple shape, retouch it to look regular , I remember the original file was asymmetric (?) and had some imperfections at the borders, so I just fixed it. Then I tried several effects using Atomic Cupcake's PS Actions. They are ready actions that you just need to click "go" and it will do everything for you... LOL. Unfortunately the site no longer exists, but you can find it to download around the net.

At the end, I just made it the easier way possible... LOL... got the basic shape, embossed and used a layer mask to make it looks like the wallie shows... but all the tests I made are here, and I'll just post it in case someone needs an apple frame... XD

I'm always grabbing things all around, that I felt the need to share this, and is just a ridiculous thing that I couldn't find anywhere when I needed... LOL

16 frames and the shape I had to retouch... and the background I made just to post it... plain paint bucket + random brush and a click at the Fabric action... LOL.

All files have the action name I used at the file name... (like apple-frame-frayed.png), so if you like the effect, you can try finding the correspondent action if you need it.

There's no need to credit, or whatever, just download, enjoy and that's all... XD

Google Drive Download

I uploaded at Google Drive and there's no need to do anything, just download... I think... LOL. I'm not sure, I just clicked to share it in public and pasted the link using the hyperlink tool... LOL

If there's any problem just drop a line and I'll try uploading it at another place.

Plaid patterns, someone?? LOL

Ok, it's been like a week I'm about to make this post, but my epic lazyness and the lack of finding the video I wanted to attach kept me not posting... LOL

I just found the video I wanted...

Here we go:

Thing is that I really fell in love with those plaid patterns... XD

Specially BBjong's one. Then I thought: "Why don't have it as a scrabpooking-like background?".

After a while, I kicked out my lazyness and opened my PS, started searching pics that could show me the patterns I needed. BBjong's pattern was really easy to make, pick the colors and place all the stripes. So, here it is:

The sample can allow to make it any size, but for my paper piece, I made it look smaller. Think I got the colors I used from another pic... but there are so many that I can't locate it now... LOL.

And then, as I was already working, I made L-sama's pattern too... but I couldn't match the yellow as I wanted... so I got tired and left like this:

Really, it was a nightmare trying to fix the yellow. I had to search pics like crazy *not complaining at all... XD*, because the stage lights made it looks too pale, or even not showed the color. And then, all those stripes were a mess to put in place, some are really thin and to "calculate" where to place it, having just a very little piece of  fabric with someone inside it *ah, what a lovely someone*, was really a headache.

Now I'm still thinking about making Sungyeol's pattern too... that one is really lovely, and I loved it so much... T_T, but all those thin stripes are keeping me away from making... LOL

That's all for now... need to eat something and take my pills... T_T. Hope someone like it too... XD

Needing patience... XP

Ah, there's like 2 or 3 days that I'm trying to clean up and fix some things at my HUGE photo collection. I always try to do this and give up because there's so many pics that it's almost impossible to organize everything.
This year I decided to do some organization in a different way: every time I download a batch of pics *I download them in batch, using a web spider software*, I will only download more AFTER basically organizing the previous one. This single step is preventing me from having a BIG MESS like I had before, and keep me organizing not only the new pics, but the older too.
After some months, I have everything almost in their own folders, like, all my SHINee pics in a SHINee folder, and now I'm almost conquering my great goal that is having all my Taemin pics into Taemin folders (1000 pics per folder). To tell the truth, I'm almost finishing to have all pics from all my favorite guys inside their own folders, and then, will come another challenge: organize it by some other kind of criteria. Having them into one person folder, split in batches of 1000 pics still isn't helping me to find pics when I need them. And, there's another little problem: the quality of the pictures. I'm really, REALLY thankful to all people who take and post all those pictures, but sometimes the quality isn't exactly what I need to work on. Then I'll go and fix some things using Photoshop, or for more quick and easy fixes, Picasa, while I'm organizing.

Today I was organizing some Infinite pics, and started fooling around fixing some pics. Here's an example:

Here we have the original one at left, and the modified one at right. That's a pretty good difference. But do it with everything is just insanity. I know that I'll end up fixing like a large percentage of the pics, just because seeing them in a way I don't like it really bother me... LOL.
I just used Picasa to fix it, and didn't take more than a minute or 2. But, making this with thousands of pics will take thousands of minutes... XP

Ah, I dream with the day I'll have everything organized the way I want, will all my pics looking the way I love... but I know it's completely impossible, as every time I download a new batch it's around 2000 new pics... T_T.

But little by little, at least, with a bit more of patience, I'll be able to do it with at least, my favorite pics and artists... XD

That's all for today, and I really need to go back and work a bit more... fighting!!

Why am I so lazy? XP

Ok, I didn't succeed in my project... LOL

But, I'm trying some different things just to get rid of my boredom.

Today after years, and years, and years, I tried to play a bit with Adobe Flash. At the time I had classes and learned to do something, it was still Macromedia Flash, and I have no idea on how much time passed by... XD

Well, then I just found out that I CAN'T post swf files here. T_T

Then I had to save my little piece of work in an animated GIF file, that screwed up the quality, but can show just a bit of what it should look like.

Well, I chose to place here at it's original size, so you can have a slightly idea on how I wanted it to look like... T_T

And I tried to follow a Youtube tutorial on how to make an image to look like it's made of  flames. Here is the result:

Looks pretty good, but not exactly like I wanted, but, it's fine for a first try... LOL. Next time I'll have a better idea on how to work it out.

Ah, L-sama, what can I do? He looks so good that I can't resist using his pics... XDD

This is all for now... well, if I feel like posting, or feel like finishing my dozen unfinished wallies I'll come back here to post... XD

PS test

Today I'm so proud of myself!

I had to make a clean up and delete tons of files I didn't make any use for a long time, this included some fashion magazine scans I got somewhere online.

Thing is that I made some cuts from some of them, picking clothes I like and jewelry pieces. Well, that's don't sound like an exciting thing... XD... but I opened my photoshop and worked on some of the jewelry.

This is the result I got from one of them:

I never ever thought that I could make this! It's looking just like it's a real jewelry, don't you think? Looking to that star at the right I can't even believe I made that! I mean, I made the flat faded scan cut look back like it's the original jewel.

By chance, trying and error making, I'm getting better, and this makes me happy and proud of myself!

That's all for this post... LOL

Nothing more than a little step for me, but something very special.