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Thursday, November 17, 2005 ``
12:01 PM

Here again!

Well, no tutorials this time I suppose n_n" ? Haha, well, I was planning to make this a normal blog as possible. Okay, so maybe this time I'll share a little photoshop trick again? Pretty simple I suppose. But before that I'd like to blog about my weird dream I had two nights ago. @@"

Kay so in my dream, it was many years in the future. Where, er, me and Min are a married couple with two kids, with the boy being 7, and the girl being 4. >_>" Don't laugh. I'm a designer, and Min works in some kind of studio doing sound effects and music effects and whatnot. Son is already schooling, and daughter hasn't.

The dream started off at dinner time, where the two kids are bickering at each other. After dinner, my so called son went up to his room to play computer games. And a few hours passed quickly, without doing anything much and it was already their bed time. So Min and me went up to our son's bedroom telling him to shut the PC off and sleep, and he said he would soon. And then went to our daughter's room, read her a story and she dozed off. After that Min took her shower and I waited for my turn, and then after she came out I took mine. After that, we went to sleep. But around 1am in the morning, our daughter came into the room and told us she didn't want to sleep alone. So we let her sleep in between. After a while I decided to go to the bathroom. After I came out my daughter was already sleeping on my pillow in my place. So I left her for a while and went to check on my son. He fell asleep on the table so I took a blanket and covered him with it. Went to get spare pillow and blanket and slept in my bedroom, but on the floor, cuz I think I didn't want to wake my daughter up. >_>" After falling asleep, I woke up, because I found Min lying down on top of me. >_>"" So we just slept on. And after a while again, I felt something else next to me and it was my daughter. - -" Weird. So everyone has a floor. So when morning came, during breakfast, I told them that they all had nice comfty beds but they chose to sleep elsewhere, like the floor and table. So my daughter scolded me and said I slept on the floor as well. Son was sneaking off to play again, and Min scolded him because he hasn't done his homework yet and he has to go to school soon. (I have no idea why we're awake so early) He went off to do his work and then me and my daughter were talking about how scary Min was XD Then Min called me from behind and hit me with a frying pan and then I woke up - -"..Well..weird? I guess so XP Well, I dunno why I decided to blog about this but yeah, haha, it was a bit funny when I woke up, I laughed to myself about it ><

Kayyy, now, short tutorial. Cel-shading or whatnot. In other words, you can change 'real' images into cartoonish images. Not perfect, but an interesting effect nonetheless.

Step 1 - Open up an image. Not too big or it might cause lag.
Step 2 - Copy the layer by clicking CTRL+J.
Step 3 - Uncheck the visibility of the top layer, as in the copy by clicking on the small eye.
Step 4 - Make sure the bottom layer is selected as the currently active layer. Go to Blur->Smart Blur. Set the quality to High if you want good results and set the next pop-down menu to Edges Only. Change the settings until you think it's 'okay'. Not too detailed or grainy.
Step 5 - Press CTRL+I to invert the colors. Don't worry too much if it looks a bit too weird now.
Step 6 - Still on the bottom layer selected, select Filter->Artistic->Cutout and play around until it looks good and not too weird. Usually, the settings preferred are 2, 4 and 2 respectively. When you're satisfied, click OK.
Step 7 - Make the top layer visible again, and make sure its the currently active layer.
Step 8 - Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur, and settings should be 5 pixels and above, or according to preference.
Step 9 - CTRL+SHIFT+F and then leave the opacity at 100%, select Darken from the drop down menu.
Step 10 - Change the layer transparency to Multiply. If you don't like it, try other different transparencies.

I hope that wasn't too hard to understand @@"...Well, I hope it turns out well for you if you try it and you don't necessarily need 'real' images n_n" You can try different images and effects and see how it turns out! >< And last but not least, I'd like to thank Manzy for getting me the Bleach poster! XP Thanks! I'll try to get you something for Christmas~ XD Ta-ta, hope you can leave tags!



{Vin}IntroSs~
Name:: Kevin Tan, Vin, Tan, Kev, Kebin Boi, Shin, Kevie-kun, etc etc..
D.O.B:: 23rd March 1990
Horoscope Sign:: Aries
Chinese Zodiac:: Horse
Email:: lone_redwolf76@hotmail.com
Location:: BSB
School:: Chung Hwa- SRS Datuk Simon Fung- Maktab Nasional- St.George's School
Hometown:: Kota Kinabalu?
Places I'd like to visit:: I'd love to go around the world if I have the chance.
Loves:: MinMin, Friends, Food, Drawing, Anime, Reading, Sleeping, Sarcasm, Chatting, Music, Writing, etc..
Fav. Colors:: Silver, Red, Grey, Black, Blue

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Name:: Min, Call me RaiN~! xD
D.O.B:: November 01, 1989
Horoscop Sign:: ScorPio~!
Zodiac Sign:: Snake *psst psst* xP
Email:: dream_dynasty@Hotmail.Com, doublewish22@Yahoo.com
Location:: Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan~
SchooL:: chms.
HomeTown:: Taiwan, Taipei~! (p/s: not kao hsiong xP)
Places I'd like to visit:: Japan, NewZealand, England, Canada, Italy, China~ Um... mostly Quiet and clean place =D
Loveees ♡~:: {most} like VinVin~! xD and my Lovely Peeps~~ Pamela, Manzy, Burt, Jessie, Aby, Irene~ and lalala~ xDD
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