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Hey Charlene! As a fellow Photoshop post-work enthusiast, might I suggest using a Black and White adjustment layer to fine tune the tonality in your images rather than just desaturating them with a Hue/Sat layer? Adjusting each of the individual color channels gives you a lot more control. And you can go one step further by adding a Selective Color adjustment layer *beneath* the B&W layer and using that to further fine-tune the tonality created by the B&W layer.
My "do" for today was catching up on all your videos, having only watched a couple so far. I think I've caught up, in betwixt interruptions from child unit, puppies, spousal unit and assorted tasks. (And ADD ftw.)
Thank you so much for all your work and the inspiration of explaining why you are doing all this. Incredibly moving! You've inspired me to work harder at making time for what I want to be doing. I broke out the headphones and did stuff while the fam watched TV. Two baby steps forward. Thank you for sharing your dream!
I have to re-find it myself now (setting up a new computer) - I'll see what I can dredge up!
Oh, I must have misunderstood. Not using PS myself, I had read that some PS users had the same problem. To be honest, though, that was a long time ago and I don't know which version of PS they were using. I'll take your word for it since you actually use the program and I don't. I love those NIK in Gimp and it doesn't cause a problem since it isn't used as a plug-in and not actually part of the Gimp load up. I'm still working out how to get Filter Forge to do the same thing. I haven't been able to script that to work in Gimp like NIK yet.
Thanks, that would be awesome!
Greetings,
I'm a bit behind on videos, but one of the early questions seemed to be if it would be interesting to watch as you modeled something from scratch, despite it taking hours.
I actually pay for something like that. I'm a Patreon subscriber to Sakimi Chan, and some of her 'video process' recordings run 3-4 hours, and there's no voice over, just (copyright-free) music over it, recording everything she's doing while she's working in Photoshop. She releases around a dozen of them per month. You get to see nearly every brush stroke, every layer created, every deformation applied, etc... It's kind of 'zen' to watch. There's nothing like watching a professional do their work in real-time to teach you new things about how to use tools you thought you already knew. Even without voice-over, it's really pretty amazing.
Now, it's worth noting that Sakimi Chan makes her entire living (as far as I know) off Patreon and so has a TON more time to do that than you probably do, and the videos are only 3-4 hours, not 6-8, and she's been doing it for at least a year, so probably has a 'process' down. But in the abstract, video processes for professionals doing their work is definitely something that a segment of people are interested in.
-- Morgan
You Want to Hire a Daz PA: So Why Are They Ignoring You?
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@cypherFOX - That is cool! Thank you for that feedback. I am mulling over some options and think I have it about narrowed down to what path I think I will take. Should know more soon.
Ok, the one I have/had has been superceded by something called GURM (which manges more than just brushes, usign the same swap in/out principle). Setup is very similar to what Irecall of the otrignal mange I had and is reasonably simple. The version I get is called 0.7 and looks liek there's a v0.8 (which I think the 0.7 zip file actually has)
Get the zip, and all you need is the .py and .ini files. I think you can place them anywhere, but I put them in my C:\Users\Simon\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins folder. The readme in the zip does explain, but to make things a bit clearer:
Open the gurm.py file with any text editor. On line 3 there is a GURMINI= statement. In the quotes to the right of the = sign you need to place the locatin (and name) of the gurrm.ini file. That's all for that file. The ini file is made of of a handful of 'stanzas', all similar and if you are only going to have it manage your brushes start by changing each of the useManager = yes lines to read = no (apart from the top one, which is for brushes). For the top, brushes, stanza change the gimpPath = line to reflect the location of where GIMP will pick up it's brushes from (I used the default GIMP location of C:\Users\Simon\.gimp-2.8\brushes. The userPath is where you will organise your brushes, and from wheer GURM will copy them out of so that GIMP can find them. Each sub-folder on that folder will be a 'category'
Start GIMP and if you placed the files in any place other than the gimp plug-ins folder you'll need to tell GIMP wehere it is. When workign you will find GURM under the Filters menu,, and it dos, thjsnkfully, issue error messages if it can't find things.
Thanks. I downloaded it and I'll play around with it tomorrow.
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I have been watching them very insightful. I like to learn bits and pieces so I have a better idea of 'stuff'. Thanks for sharing and thanks to other PAs that also share knowledge on utube, the forums, etc. :)
I have no issues with having hundreds of brushes loaded as well for photoshop as well the addons mentioned. And my machine is not anything terribly special either. Its interesting because I have heard that said a lot, like not just once or twice but often and couldn't figure out why I didn't have those issues lol. Good to know I'm not crazy!
Caught up on these, wonderful information thank you so much!
Very useful stuff you share. Thank you :)
Just got caught up-thanks so much for making these- and for the beautiful holiday balls- perfect for the new Iray tree!!
Yay!!! I'm really glad to hear you guys are enjoying these and finding them so useful.
I'll keep going as long as you keep benefiting. :)
And fresh off the presses today: NEW PA Insider - How else do people make money with Daz Studio software even if they are not 3D artists?
@23Cascade - My pleasure! Those were wicked fun to make. I am glad you like them. Sometimes you just gotta have some whimsy in the workflow, right? :)
What happened to this thread? No activity for 10 days.
She might be under deadlines, on vacation or preparing for company since it's so close to the holiday. Could be a bunch of different reasons ;)
In one of the last videos or a post, Charlene said she had to go out of town. She was hoping to upload some videos she had ready while she was gone. I'm assuming she may have run into some technical difficulties doing that or she just got too busy while out of town. I'm sure she'll be back soon.
No worries, I haven't forgotten about you!
As was pointed out: Deadlines, holidays and travel. :)
I've got more coming to the channel soon.
Good to hear that you aren't buried under 10 feet of snow or something!
Are we done here or just taking a break? :)
Laurie
@AllenArt, Read the post two above yours for the answer.
I was asking her because it HAS been awhile ;) Just wonderin'.
Laurie
I'm grateful for the wisdom and inspiration she is sharing, and am patiently awaiting her new posts. I'm believing when her holidays, travels, and deadlines allow, she'll post again. Unfortunately, I doubt there is anything we can do that will cause her to have more hours in her day.
Well I will be keeping her in my thoughts and sending "good vibes" to many folks on a daily basis! I really want 2017 to be a "much better year" than 2016 was for me and many others!
I have to give a big thanks to Charlene. I had been thinking for a while to put together a website and a youtube channel, and when she explain the need to get out of the comfort zone and explore new possibilities, and asked "what are you doing?" those words resonated. So I've got a new youtube channel, and its all in a small part thanks to Bluebird3D. Big thanks! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1aKmnPJhAO6LS6kGM5MotQ
Hope all is OK with BlueBird.
She is still releasing new products in the store. In December, she said there would be more coming to this channel, but we haven't heard a peep about it since then. I'm not sure what happened to her "Daily Do" commitment. Perhaps she is still pursuing that privately. I'm sure she needs to focus on producing a living and personal life first, like everyone. Here's hoping we see her here again soon.