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Love that my ‘hitting toe nails on the superior’ skills have been acknowledged. It’s now a bullet point on my CV.
*** Image originally posted in my previous blog: The Singing Tree ***
Follow the link for the tutorial:
Written by Alberto Kaiser Sosa, it’s clearly explained with lots and lots of screen grabs on the way.
The only problem I had with creating my version was that I couldn’t reduce the line weight of vertical or horizontal lines below 1 pt.
Apparently, if you have ‘align to pixel grid’ switched on, fractional strokes (as in half and quarter points) cannot be aligned to a pixel grid so the application will automatically round the line weight up to the smallest value that it CAN align: 1 pt.
Turn off the ‘align to pixel grid ‘ – there’s a check box on the bottom of the New Document dialogue – uncheck it and it’s sorted.
12 x 12 is 304.8 mm x 304.8mm
A6 105 x 148 mm
A5 148 x 210 mm
A4 210 x 297 mm
A3 297 x 420 mm
C6 114 x 162 mm
C5 162 x 229 mm
Conversion calculation: Inches to mm: multiply inches by 25.4 to get millimetres.
This effect is quick and very easy. It started life as a colour photo and within 5 minutes or so using Photoshop’s filters it became this bluey, almost inky, line drawing. You can spend longer to get every detail just-so – I have another tutorial on here for creating a watercolour effect painting – use that as the basis for stripping out the details of your picture first if you have time to spend longer on your image.
Anyway, this was done in 5 minutes. I have my original notes written around one of my old doodlings pdf’d for you to download.
A lovely little robot pop-up called Bindy. It folds flat inside a card then pops up when it’s opened. I think this works for males and females for a whole load of different occasions.
You might want to Bevel & Emboss (also in the Layer Styles palette) and you might want to play with the Chrome settings but these give you the basic steps.
My beautiful and most beloved cat, Homer, who died Sunday 25th September aged twenty.
Night Night and God Bless little boy. x x x x x
The Singing Ringing Tree.
It centres on a prince seeking the hand of the local Princess in marriage. The Princess is very spoilt and sends him off on a Fool’s Errand – fetch the Singing Ringing Tree. The cast of tens (as my partner snarkily commented) were shaken to their boots at this outrageous demand! It’s halfway across the world (that is, the known world at the time which was obviously shorter than from here to the library and back).
Away rides the prince, galloping past watercoloured backdrops and chocolate muffin mountains, and stops to ask a man looking uncannily like the ‘need a number nifty? Dial 11850’ man pruning trees… he didn’t know, then he meets a dwarf ( looking very like the love child of Peter Cook and Frankie Howard) who has the information.
He is prepared to give him the tree providing that by sundown he has both delivered the tree and the tree has sung! The singing of the tree, is, in addition, conditional upon the princess falling in love with him! He jokes ‘May I turn into a bear if that is not so!’
We’ve all seen enough of these wish fulfillment type fairytales to know what happens next…
Yes… he delivers the tree, Princess Bridezilla doesn’t want it and the prince returns to the kingdom of the dwarf and duly turns into a big brown bear – well, a bear outfit covered in what looked like hedgehog prickles.
He can only be freed if the princess falls in love with him in the kindgom of the dwarf! The dwarf is the embodiment of Schadenfreude and delights in every misfortune and unhappiness of the bear. Especially when he cries and wipes his tears away with his plastic-clawed paw attachments.
Meanwhile, back at the palace where no expense has been….. the king (looking like a proper mathematician in a thick wooly beard, sufficiently thick and long enough to hide at least one albatross, a slide rule and a set of compasses) has been sent to find the prince and bring the singing tree back to the fickle and fey Bridezilla who has changed her mind and now wants it.
The king meets the bear and the bear agrees to giving him the tree providing that in return, the king gives him the person who meets him first on his return… (guesses on a postcard please).
She sees the king coming and rushes to meet him – making her the currency of exchange.
Cutting it short a bit here… she ends up back at the kingdom of the dwarf with the bear. The dwarf turns her hair green (haven’t we all done this with a cheap home colouring kit at some point?) and makes her ugly in a nose-like-a-pickled-gherkin sort of way. She starts to treat animals and others of the dwarf kingdom with care and tenderness and gets a little less ugly with every act of kindness she performs.
The dwarf is beside himself with rage and has an absolute abundance of magic dust that can be swept, blown and brushed about to turn anything into stone, stir up violent storms, freeze water to ice in a matter of moments, etc.
He really is a nasty little bugger (makes the toilet germs you see in the Domestos ads look attractive) but the new animal friends come to her aid and save every situation. Eventually, the tree sings, the bear turns into a prince and they get married.
Just sharing. I’ve sat through the whole thing on video just recently.
I have found a couple of beauuutiful words/phrases to share with you! Both German:
Dunkle Stoffe – dark fabric (as seen on the side of a tub of fabric paint). Somehow, the prospect of all that unseen dark matter in space sounds so much friendlier if you think of it as lots of dunkle stoffe.
And, how about this lovely word?! Morgenmuffel? It means a person who is grumpy in the morning! I am not (usually) a morgenmuffel but have known a few morgenmuffels in my time.
There is a German word ‘Sitzfleisch’ that describes the ability to endure or persist in a task (literally translates to ‘sits flesh’ meaning the ability to sit at something for lengthy periods). I could think of no better word to describe the persistence and endurance of somebody I recently witnessed trying to rotate a triangle so that it would sit squarely on a box.
I had, coincidentally, created a little box that had the same issue in its design but took moments to resolve. It is based upon mathematical principles but involves no actual maths – just circles. Don’t be put off by the use of a few mathematical terms – they’re easy ones – just radius and diameter and I use no math, as such (multiply something by 2 ).
Once you get the principles you’ll find angles easy to calculate.
Here’s a quick tutorial – takes more words to explain than to actually do it.
Asking for my readers to share some love and compassion to those going through life facing untold problems alone and in need of help. Share the information above and give hope to those sufferers.
Dark evenings bring terrors to men like David. leaving them fagged out and ‘heavy as lead’ . Yes, the awful fatigue of night starvation so easily remedied by the ‘fascinating’ flavour and goodness of Horlicks. Don’t let your partner die of The Hunger – is he/or she eating enough to survive the night? Why not move your bed into the kitchen or install a primus stove and/or microwave in the bedroom? For total peace of mind, a panic button should be within easy reach to call for help should you or your loved ones start to feel the early warning symptoms of hunger pains.
I am perturbed, however, by the request to find out what ‘Caroline’ uses ‘personally’. How many personal uses are there for a hospital disinfectant?
Like Domestos, Toilet Duck and lemon fragranced Cif, I had never considered a household cleaner as part of my personal hygiene habit. It’s not fully explained but remains ‘understood’ between Caroline and the worried woman with, what I can only presume, stinky underwear (it all seems very coy …. who knows!). Ask your doctor ‘He’ knows (obviously, all doctors have a Y chromosome – women are just too preoccupied with laundry stain insecurities to udergo medical training).
Also, I am unfamiliar with the words ‘Germicide’ and ‘Dainty’ in any close juxtaposition followed closely by the line ‘it does not even stain linen’.
Apparently, it asserts, doctors know about these things so am thinking about visiting my doc to see if he or she can help with a range of other laundry stainings and get the heads up on the leading products for today’s ground-in dirt.
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