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*hugs to girlnamedpixley!*



Aside from sharpening, gaussian blurring, and one or two other things, I've never really used any of Photoshop's filters. But there is a rather simple, yet cunning, way to turn a photograph into something more painterly by using the Find Edges function under the 'Stylize' filter to get that penstroke/fine brushpoint outline effect. I tried it out on Teyla first, because 1.) Teyla is gorgeous, and 2.) the colors in this particular scene from "Kindred I" are, IMHO, some of the best in SGA, period. For a first attempt, I'm pretty happy with it!

I also revisited the 4.16 cap in my header, because of how it is awesome. The actual version is 1000px wide, and so is behind the cut.



( the pearly gates have some eloquent grafitti )

Okay, no more coherence from me tonight *fallover*

A couple experimental pieces, by which I mean experimental for me. One is a cover for fiercelydreamed's really, really awesome Unidentified, and the other is a draft of a cover for the noir!AU villainny and amberlynne have been interested in.



( dirty work at the crossroads )

Now that I feel a bit less like I'm falling over myself, I might actually be able to do decent stuff for paintedspires, which is a happy thing.

I got, oh, almost nothing done of what I needed to get done tonight. Reading is finished, which is always important (and I might actually get everything read by my exam date), but, um, the fic? She didn't go so well.

Neither did graphics stuff. I started out intending to redo my userinfo with something pretty, but ended up being sidetracked into drafting icons. In the interests of feeling productive, and because they have given me much to smile about for the past several hours despite the complete lack of said productivity, I post said drafts here.





Oh, David and Joe, what you do to me. *flails modestly*

In other news: Insomnia. Strikes. Again. If you're on MSN, feel free to bother me... I'll be good for the next hour, I think. (aesc36 @ gmail.com)

ETA: Oh yeah, I did write this, but I don't know if it counts.