Because you look at the picture and go, see, now here is where the artist is just showing off, his mastery of color value for conveying texture. You notice right off the dress, of course, its generous volume, its costume window dressing quality, how her hair is rubbed out to gaussian blur where the paint brushes themselves would provide hair texture easily enough, and wonder what vanity caused the artist to do that, why make her hair fuzzy? And the curtains fill space light as air its mass contrasted with marble on the other side of the subject. Your eyes are drawn to the velvet table covering the way it reflects light defining its texture, you want to touch it to test, and that is next to the rug, an expensive one but all muted value because light is not falling on it, back up the table to examine the artist's éclat with textures and light of objects placed there on purpose, why are they chosen? The silk embroidered pillow and ho, what's that? A crown. How quaint. Put that in there to remind us, what? That she is queen? Without that clue we wouldn't know ? Yeah, we get it already, she's queen.
I could have animated an axe removing her head. Look how easy to fill the negative space left behind by removing it.
Here's what you do. Spontaneous pedantry for free right here.
Select around the head, copy, delete, paste. A new layer with the head is automatically created when you paste from clipboard but put in the center of the frame. Move it back where it belongs. Click back to work on the background layer fill in the empty space created by removing the head. That is your new background for all future frames including the original position, however many that turns out to display your idea. The head put back into the right place is your starting frame.
Copy the head.
You're going to make a lot of copies of this head. And do with it what you will. You can slice it off then with each new head frame make it slightly bigger and turn it so it spins when run in series the head comes at you and right off the frame.
You can add a scythe to do the slicing, Add blood all over as you like throughout frames.
See how sweet I am by not doing any of that? I stick with the innocent things.
The crown one took 30 crowns to circle around so 30 backgrounds are copied. The layers are combined one by one until each new crown in its place, or head in its place, are all positioned and repositioned satisfactorily. Then combined crown to background one-by-one to completion. At one point 30 different crown layers and 30 identical background are lined up as 60 rung ladder of layers to be combined to 30 layers in preparation of becoming frames for animation.
Once layers are worked out to satisfaction In Photoshop the method is convert layers to frames. The layer window can close, it's no longer needed. Now we're concerned with frames running as a loop. The end jumps back to the beginning.
Frames and layers are the same thing except different.
That's why the smoothest are worked in layers first so the end matches up to the beginning. It's why the crown circled back around instead of jolting back onto the pillow. Extra layers/frames to let the crown float down.
If you chop off her head, best to put it back on. So it doesn't have to jolt back on, like, you know, magic or something. I'm trying to help you out here, to have smooth animated gifs, have the head roll back on, drop back on, parachute back on, or have a disinterested waiter walk into the frame with the original head on a tray and it pops back on as he passes by.
A lot of sensible enhancements can be done with this painting.
A really great and simple breakfast is matzo brei. Stir 2 eggs (or 4 eggs to feed more) in a bowl. Break up the matzo boards (2 boards to 4 boards depending on how many people you want to feed) and add them to the eggs. Let the broken up boards soak up the eggs until softened. Salt to taste. Pour into a buttered pan (medium heat) and flip when browned (brown both sides). Serve with either jam or maple syrup. Delish.
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Indecisive magician Marie Antoinette, sauce pic nicked from Ace.
Because you look at the picture and go, see, now here is where the artist is just showing off, his mastery of color value for conveying texture. You notice right off the dress, of course, its generous volume, its costume window dressing quality, how her hair is rubbed out to gaussian blur where the paint brushes themselves would provide hair texture easily enough, and wonder what vanity caused the artist to do that, why make her hair fuzzy? And the curtains fill space light as air its mass contrasted with marble on the other side of the subject. Your eyes are drawn to the velvet table covering the way it reflects light defining its texture, you want to touch it to test, and that is next to the rug, an expensive one but all muted value because light is not falling on it, back up the table to examine the artist's éclat with textures and light of objects placed there on purpose, why are they chosen? The silk embroidered pillow and ho, what's that? A crown. How quaint. Put that in there to remind us, what? That she is queen? Without that clue we wouldn't know ? Yeah, we get it already, she's queen.
I could have animated an axe removing her head. Look how easy to fill the negative space left behind by removing it.
Here's what you do. Spontaneous pedantry for free right here.
Select around the head, copy, delete, paste. A new layer with the head is automatically created when you paste from clipboard but put in the center of the frame. Move it back where it belongs. Click back to work on the background layer fill in the empty space created by removing the head. That is your new background for all future frames including the original position, however many that turns out to display your idea. The head put back into the right place is your starting frame.
Copy the head.
You're going to make a lot of copies of this head. And do with it what you will. You can slice it off then with each new head frame make it slightly bigger and turn it so it spins when run in series the head comes at you and right off the frame.
You can add a scythe to do the slicing, Add blood all over as you like throughout frames.
See how sweet I am by not doing any of that? I stick with the innocent things.
The crown one took 30 crowns to circle around so 30 backgrounds are copied. The layers are combined one by one until each new crown in its place, or head in its place, are all positioned and repositioned satisfactorily. Then combined crown to background one-by-one to completion. At one point 30 different crown layers and 30 identical background are lined up as 60 rung ladder of layers to be combined to 30 layers in preparation of becoming frames for animation.
Once layers are worked out to satisfaction In Photoshop the method is convert layers to frames. The layer window can close, it's no longer needed. Now we're concerned with frames running as a loop. The end jumps back to the beginning.
Frames and layers are the same thing except different.
That's why the smoothest are worked in layers first so the end matches up to the beginning. It's why the crown circled back around instead of jolting back onto the pillow. Extra layers/frames to let the crown float down.
If you chop off her head, best to put it back on. So it doesn't have to jolt back on, like, you know, magic or something. I'm trying to help you out here, to have smooth animated gifs, have the head roll back on, drop back on, parachute back on, or have a disinterested waiter walk into the frame with the original head on a tray and it pops back on as he passes by.
A lot of sensible enhancements can be done with this painting.
Cruel irony that today is National Pretzel Day.
A really great and simple breakfast is matzo brei. Stir 2 eggs (or 4 eggs to feed more) in a bowl. Break up the matzo boards (2 boards to 4 boards depending on how many people you want to feed) and add them to the eggs. Let the broken up boards soak up the eggs until softened. Salt to taste. Pour into a buttered pan (medium heat) and flip when browned (brown both sides). Serve with either jam or maple syrup. Delish.
Damn, ricpic, now I want some fried eggs with matzo - hey, spell check allows that word with or without an "h" on the end!
It's good. Better than French toast. Peppering it makes it even better than salting, though.
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