View Full Version : PING: acushla - what it was / what it is
What it was: http://roj.deviantart.com/art/Neon-Afterglo-Redux-57714955
What it is: http://roj.deviantart.com/art/AfterGlo-68269665
Todd The Kiwi
10-26-2007, 10:11 PM
that's it i'm moving to that sunset :ditsy:
whose coming with me man!
that's it i'm moving to that sunset :ditsy:
whose coming with me man!
I'll be somewhere that has sunsets just like that in a couple of months...
...again. :)
Rex_Mundi_Incarnit
10-27-2007, 01:07 AM
The return of the ping!
Nice sunset, photoshopped no doubt, but pretty.
The return of the ping!
Nice sunset, photoshopped no doubt, but pretty.
Paint Shop Pro 9'd. One quarter the resources, four times the speed and 85% of the power. I hate Bloatoshop. :)
Actually, the whole point of this thread is the two Desktop Sidebar skins.
acushla
10-31-2007, 07:44 AM
What it was: http://roj.deviantart.com/art/Neon-Afterglo-Redux-57714955
What it is: http://roj.deviantart.com/art/AfterGlo-68269665Personally I believe both have merit. If I had to choose one I actually think I would go with the 'darker' image..but then I'm a dark personality!:knocked-o
They are both great.:)
Personally I believe both have merit. If I had to choose one I actually think I would go with the 'darker' image..but then I'm a dark personality!:knocked-o
They are both great.:)
I'm definitely a dark personality. I pointed them out to you because when the first skin was posted you pointed out that while you liked the conception, the execution was lacking. At the time I was perturbed by your comments but then as I learned more aobut what I was doing, I came to realize they had considerable mreit. I tried to recreate the skin later and again it was unsatisfactory - to me. I hate compromises and that's exactly what it was. Now that I'm reasonably sure about what I'm doing and how style elements should fit together, i made this final version - and while it's similar in design and concept to the original skin, the execution is decidedly different and (I think) more refined.
As you were the one who made the original comment that in part kicked off that journey, I thought I should show you where the path eventually led.
acushla
10-31-2007, 06:42 PM
As you were the one who made the original comment that in part kicked off that journey, I thought I should show you where the path eventually led.Gee...had I known you were actually reading my posts I would have had a whole slew of suggestions!;)
As it stands it would appear that you have sorted them all out without my help...so...kudos!
Very nice work. I have to ask though..how difficult is this to do when 'legally blind'?:cool:
Gee...had I known you were actually reading my posts I would have had a whole slew of suggestions!;)
As it stands it would appear that you have sorted them all out without my help...so...kudos!
Very nice work. I have to ask though..how difficult is this to do when 'legally blind'?:cool:
Quite arduous actually. The middle 15 degrees of my vision is gone - it's a white fog - so reading normally is out of the question as is detailed work. I have to run Windows Magnifier set in inverse mode (I see white on black a LOT better than black on white) for anything I read, so changing options is a continuous progression of "look at top of screen - read magnifier - change option - apply option - look at bottom three quarters of screen to see result". Furthermore, I've lost a lot of greens and blues so I have to rely on the outer areas of my eyes to check how those appear or they'll appear grescale. That means I almost have to throw my eyes out of focus to sort of map my peripheral vision in to view them (it's also how I read - it's not too hard at 2x magnification). I'm not sure if this makes sense - it's easier to show than to explain. I had a lot of headaches while I was adjusting but now my eye muscles respond at will.
However, things like creating skins take me a while because of the above stuff. I'd say I was down to about one third of what used to be normal speed for me on detail stuff.
But it's WAY better than it was at the start.
The fuinny thing is at night I see almost completley normally - the lower the light conditions, the better I see, and for some reason, as the cones were dying, the rods were growing more so than normal.
Maybe I'm becioming a vamp - with a tan, of course. :)
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