Having a creative day, sort of
I woke up this morning with a thought in my head for a cool t-shirt design. It's sweet and friendly, and has a positive little message to it.
Hopefully, nobody will wear it and get mad at me because people start hugging them. (The message invites people to hug the wearer.) I guess in the description I should make a statement that the designer is not responsible for unwelcome hugs - wear at your own risk. LOL
I'm sure nobody is surprised about the trivial things that people sue over these days, so it wouldn't surprise me to hear this was brought up in a lawsuit, "I wore a shirt that said 'Hug me' and people I didn't even know were hugging me. I want a million dollars from the designer for emotional stress!"
Now would I wear a shirt like that in public? Heck no. LOL I don't want a bunch of strange people hugging me.
The "sort of" comes in here. I've got the message stated the way I want it, and the layout is just right, but I'm a little stuck on how to color the letters. I was wanting to fill in with one of my airbrushed designs, but it was pretty weak and pale looking when I tried it on there. I want it to be really vibrant - lots of bright colors. Maybe I'll try some free-hand airbrushing on the letters with some really obnoxious colors instead. :)
The only real problem is that it's been 3/4 of a year since I designed anything new, really. I'm having a hard time remembering how the controls in Paint Shop Pro work (and it's an easy program!). I plugged in my graphics tablet and that's helping some, but it's kinda hard sitting in my bed, propped up with pillows, my lapdesk across my lap, with the laptop and tablet balanced across it. The problem is that I need to have the tablet centered for my own ease of use, and the laptop is, of course, in the center of my lap. Maybe if I scooted the laptop backwards, I could fit the tablet on here in front of me.
However, I won't be able to see the screen very well unless I go put in my contacts. LOL
Yay - figured out how to do the letters. I used the brown leaves texture, then set it for a diagonal rainbow gradient at 155 degrees, with 3 repeats. But since I didn't want every letter to be obviously from the same pattern, every other letter I inverted the pattern, so that the edges wouldn't all line up perfectly, color to color. This way they'll look like they were independently created. I was coloring in this way with the airbrush, but that really made things uneven, so I just floodfilled with my textured pattern. I put black backing behind the letters (because it made the colors pop a lot more than white did), and then I duplicated the rainbow layers until I got the right intensity without losing the texture. The 3D effect was an inner bevel setting called "rubber covered" that I tweaked until it was puffy enough without losing the color of the original swatch of color.
HA HA HA! I just discovered the reason I've been unable to save png files with their full transparency on this laptop!!! In PSP, file format preferences, PNG tab, the box for "load and save transparency to/from alpha channel" should NOT be checked!! Everyone was telling me to leave it checked. Well, at least I hope that fixed it. LOL I just opened up a png that did actually save with transparent areas. (And you know I love my tranparent areas. hehehe)
Hopefully, nobody will wear it and get mad at me because people start hugging them. (The message invites people to hug the wearer.) I guess in the description I should make a statement that the designer is not responsible for unwelcome hugs - wear at your own risk. LOL
I'm sure nobody is surprised about the trivial things that people sue over these days, so it wouldn't surprise me to hear this was brought up in a lawsuit, "I wore a shirt that said 'Hug me' and people I didn't even know were hugging me. I want a million dollars from the designer for emotional stress!"
Now would I wear a shirt like that in public? Heck no. LOL I don't want a bunch of strange people hugging me.
The "sort of" comes in here. I've got the message stated the way I want it, and the layout is just right, but I'm a little stuck on how to color the letters. I was wanting to fill in with one of my airbrushed designs, but it was pretty weak and pale looking when I tried it on there. I want it to be really vibrant - lots of bright colors. Maybe I'll try some free-hand airbrushing on the letters with some really obnoxious colors instead. :)
The only real problem is that it's been 3/4 of a year since I designed anything new, really. I'm having a hard time remembering how the controls in Paint Shop Pro work (and it's an easy program!). I plugged in my graphics tablet and that's helping some, but it's kinda hard sitting in my bed, propped up with pillows, my lapdesk across my lap, with the laptop and tablet balanced across it. The problem is that I need to have the tablet centered for my own ease of use, and the laptop is, of course, in the center of my lap. Maybe if I scooted the laptop backwards, I could fit the tablet on here in front of me.
However, I won't be able to see the screen very well unless I go put in my contacts. LOL
Yay - figured out how to do the letters. I used the brown leaves texture, then set it for a diagonal rainbow gradient at 155 degrees, with 3 repeats. But since I didn't want every letter to be obviously from the same pattern, every other letter I inverted the pattern, so that the edges wouldn't all line up perfectly, color to color. This way they'll look like they were independently created. I was coloring in this way with the airbrush, but that really made things uneven, so I just floodfilled with my textured pattern. I put black backing behind the letters (because it made the colors pop a lot more than white did), and then I duplicated the rainbow layers until I got the right intensity without losing the texture. The 3D effect was an inner bevel setting called "rubber covered" that I tweaked until it was puffy enough without losing the color of the original swatch of color.
HA HA HA! I just discovered the reason I've been unable to save png files with their full transparency on this laptop!!! In PSP, file format preferences, PNG tab, the box for "load and save transparency to/from alpha channel" should NOT be checked!! Everyone was telling me to leave it checked. Well, at least I hope that fixed it. LOL I just opened up a png that did actually save with transparent areas. (And you know I love my tranparent areas. hehehe)
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