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The Daily Chit-Chat [2008]

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My biggest problem is that I can see the final image I want to create in my head and then section it up into layers to create, but then My hands just completely ruin it. Sometimes I just wish I could plug my brain straight into a printer of flash drive and print what's in there because then I'll know it's perfect.
 
I have no idea what the future holds, although I'd probably jump at the chance of having experimental surgury to have some sort of computer to brain interface device implanted.
 
Gerri Shin® said:
My biggest problem is that I can see the final image I want to create in my head and then section it up into layers to create, but then My hands just completely ruin it. Sometimes I just wish I could plug my brain straight into a printer of flash drive and print what's in there because then I'll know it's perfect.
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Oh, my gosh, I know exactly what you mean! It's always so sad when you have this perfect image of what you're going to do in your head, and then you go to Photoshop it or whatever, and it looks nothing like what you imagined, no matter how hard you try. .___.;
 
My brain is so far ahead of what I can do in photoshop that I can take any image I see, dissect it into layers, then create a 3d space and see each layer floating above the others as well as flip them on/off and up/down.
It's almost sad
 
Heheh, that happens to me all the time. I get these awesome banner ideas, but when I sit down and try to make them they end up looking like crap XD; I've pretty much given up on making my own themes, I don't have the patients to sit for hours working on something that I probably won't like anyway D:
 
Scarlet Lynn said:
That's how I am, like all the time~ Like, I like my signature right now, but in a few days I'm going to end up looking at it and thinking I can do better than this. Then I get all self-conscious, like, Oh, my God, am I actually going around with this banner? It's a stupid thing to think, really, but it's how I am sometimes. XD;

PC's done wonders for me, though. I used to web design and stuff for around four years until about a year ago, when I left that whole web design community. When I joined PC, though, I had a new excuse to start Photoshopping again. ^.^
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I think a lot of the time we (or at least I) never feel perfect about our themes is because we look at the themes of other people and judge ours by theirs.
For example, I got my new Yoko theme up. I worked on it for hours or whatever. A few days (or weeks or whatever) down the road Chika got a new Yoko theme and I was like "Hm... I could have done this to make mine just a little better." but I looked back over my banner, liked it and went on. And the same thing when others made Yoko banners and "Hey, look at this Andy" (Both David and Jorfe made Yoko themes and I went "Well... I could have done this better...). But if I step back and say "Well, this banner is awesome" not judging it by any other banners then I should be ok with my themes. Because no matter how good I make my banner I will always see someone else's banner and go "Wow... I wish mine was like that.".
Does this mean I won't "clean up" my Yoko banner... nah because part of me likes to work on themes (just to work on them).

Chikara said:
Andy: Oh god. I've made too many Yoko banners, I'm done for a while. I need more inspiration cause I've done pretty much everything I could think of ._.;
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I know I likely haven't made anywhere close as the number you made. But I've maybe maybe 6 or 7 banners (most never used). But I like Yoko so much I can keep going. XD

Gerri Shin® said:
Sometimes I just wish I could plug my brain straight into a printer of flash drive and print what's in there because then I'll know it's perfect.
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I wished I could do this just about everytime I make a banner or avatar or something. Because it's rare that when I picture a theme in my head and it comes out better then what I had planned (my Yoko theme right now is one of them few themes that I like better then what I had pictured).
 
Arcanine said:
I think a lot of the time we (or at least I) never feel perfect about our themes is because we look at the themes of other people and judge ours by theirs.
For example, I got my new Yoko theme up. I worked on it for hours or whatever. A few days (or weeks or whatever) down the road Chika got a new Yoko theme and I was like "Hm... I could have done this to make mine just a little better." but I looked back over my banner, liked it and went on. And the same thing when others made Yoko banners and "Hey, look at this Andy" (Both David and Jorfe made Yoko themes and I went "Well... I could have done this better...). But if I step back and say "Well, this banner is awesome" not judging it by any other banners then I should be ok with my themes. Because no matter how good I make my banner I will always see someone else's banner and go "Wow... I wish mine was like that.".
Does this mean I won't "clean up" my Yoko banner... nah because part of me likes to work on themes (just to work on them).
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Couldn't agree more, Arcanine. With this Roxas theme, I see other types of banners with different effects and such that bring me thinking, "hey, maybe if that was there."

I was even thinking about changing this theme to another. Though, when I step back from everything and look at it, this one is absolutely incredible. I really wouldn't change a pixel on it.

Gerri said:
Sometimes I just wish I could plug my brain straight into a printer of flash drive and print what's in there because then I'll know it's perfect.
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I've thought that so many times... heck I wish I had the skill (rather tools) to create such amazing banners like you all, I want that mind printer >8D. Back when I used to be an artist, I never really got out what I pictured in my head, rarely ever better. I was still content with my work , it's frustrating not to get it perfectly out of your head to what you want.

Though, since I'm a requester, not a graphic creator I get something a whole lot better then I expect. For example, back when DC made me a Beach-Roxas theme, I let him do whatever he wanted and it turned out a whole lot better then I expected. So when I request themes, I simply request with very few limits or "request fields" so I let the graphics maker do as they please, and the end result is a whole lot better then I expect. :D I think requesting is a whole lot more surprising then actually designing it.

Up to this point, I really have liked all the themes I've been able to use by such great graphic designers, of course I never got perfectly comfortable feeling with them judging by other banners. Though, I feel like I found "the one" with this current theme. Won't be changing anytime soon, that's for sure. (b'')b
 
Arcanine said:
I think a lot of the time we (or at least I) never feel perfect about our themes is because we look at the themes of other people and judge ours by theirs.
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You're pretty much spot on. :D I tend to compare my themes with others, too, and then I feel bad about my theme, which I shouldn't, because people have different styles of creating graphics, but I do anyway.
 
I'm thinking about downloading GIMP.
But, I dunno.

lol We've been talking about banner making programs for a while now. XD;
 
BeachBoy said:
Couldn't agree more, Arcanine. With this Roxas theme, I see other types of banners with different effects and such that bring me thinking, "hey, maybe if that was there."

I was even thinking about changing this theme to another. Though, when I step back from everything and look at it, this one is absolutely incredible. I really wouldn't change a pixel on it.
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And all of us go "Well, this could be different" not really thinking about the theme we've already got. I do it all the time (as of late, I don't think I've ever made a theme without having a 1.5 on the end of it where I go back and change this or that). There is no perfect theme, and like you said, step back and look at it.
I guess it's just how we are... We look at the theme in PhotoShop/PaintShopPro/GIMP and we say "That looks good, I'm proud of that" but down the road we'll be like "Well...." to the theme...
Am I ranting here? I'm saying the same thing over and over. XD

Scarlet Lynn said:
You're pretty much spot on. :D I tend to compare my themes with others, too, and then I feel bad about my theme, which I shouldn't, because people have different styles of creating graphics, but I do anyway.
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And you're also right about having different styles and such. I had my style of banners and in my "little circle of friends" if one of us had a banner like my style they'd go "Hey... your banner looks like Andy made it.". It's quite funny XD. But when I made my new banners (the one I got now, and the one I made for my sig on GameSpot) they were like "Wait... that's different... that's so not your banner style".
 
The stuff I make normally has one thing the same as my others... which I don't like.

I want all to be 100% different.
 
Arcanine said:
And you're also right about having different styles and such. I had my style of banners and in my "little circle of friends" if one of us had a banner like my style they'd go "Hey... your banner looks like Andy made it.". It's quite funny XD. But when I made my new banners (the one I got now, and the one I made for my sig on GameSpot) they were like "Wait... that's different... that's so not your banner style".
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I could never actually define my "style," because I change it so often. At one point, I'd abuse cloudy effects, then I'd abuse shapes and false vectors, and now I'm into a grungy style. I know there's a "Scarlet-style" somewhere, but I can't find it. XD
 
Obviously... -points at signature- ... I have no style. I just do whatever I can manage with the image. I'm been using layer modes, textures, and some brushes that make everything blend in a lot lately though.
 
If I had a style, it'd probably have something to do with abusing the smudge tool... Smudging is probably my forte, graphics-wise. But I think I'm far from making my own style >.> I feel like learning how to vector properly, though.
 
I have some story of style, that uses sparkly brushes alot. XD; I like sparkly things... o3o But seriously, who doesn't? XD

But I need more variation of my style though... :<
 
Stay away from the vectors! D<|3
I suck at trying new things out… so I stick with the simple xD
 
Me stay away from vectors? Sure, it's hard anyway. And I'm horrible at it -shot'd-

Ah, but I like to explore new stuff~ Not really. I'm sort of lying >.>
 
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