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iudiex · 1 year ago

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Please tell us how you make your banner and dividers

hi nonnie! i'd be happy to do so. there's a variety of ways I go about doing it - but i'll post a small example under the cut ( using the extremely bare minimums of a dainsleif divider as an example )

in terms of dividers - i usually start out with a blank photoshop canvas at 540 px by 100 px, sometimes a little taller, or a little less tall. but never any wider otherwise tumblr makes it look fucky wucky.

the most important things for dividers is your... well, divider part. it's best to just start out with a simple rectangle. we can adjust this at any point but for now i've just made a little blue one. everyone's preferences are different, but i like my rectangles to be about 3 px tall. note: i always like to have a background layer included while working, because it helps with visualization of your stuff.

now the hardest part of the dividers is well... the elements. we need them to be transparent and clear and in our case, form a somewhat cohesive vision. what i like to do is visit various reference archives ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) and pull in game assets if you can. a good place to get just... general assets ( like flowers and shit ) like clipart is etsy, or if you can find free to use and it's not stealing - even pinterest/canva. if the asset is already cut out? even better. if not... well. cut it out and enjoy the suffering ig. but it needs to be on a transparent background for this to work.

in our example, dragaliareferencearchive provided us with a very lovely high rez asset of mr. dainsleif with which i chopped out some elements and will be making use of. say hi to dainsleif, everyone!

what i like to do is go in - use the lasso tool, and just draw around the elements i went to yoinky over. i hit ctrl c - go back to my divider canvas, and paste. at that point you just resize it however you want.

note: i shrunk down the rectangle a bit.

now that we have an element. added on one side - lets make the rectangle look a little fancier. duplicate the rectangle layer, and add a stroke while removing fill. drag it down just slightly, and you've got... more rectangle. wahoo.

do that as many times as you want.

cool great, now we have more rectangles. at this point i'd probably add some more elements (stars and shit idk) and some text. one of my favorite things to do is create a small rectangle and smack some white or black text on it. looks poppin.

dope words, dainsleif.

next, i slap a psd on it.... or i make my own. if you're going to slap a psd on it, remember to credit the creator per their rules! in this case we'll use one i have laying about - jaynedit's fable hope. smack that shit on your layers.

NOTE: I highly advise keeping you text on your dividers / icons / shit ABOVE your PSD layer. sometimes psd's make the text look crunchy. we don't like that. no crunchies on our dividers.

at this point i'd probably apply some masks and shit but that's too complex for me to teach and also i'm starting to get hungry so lets wrap this shit up. i finalize all my dividers by grouping things into neat layers and labeling them because i'm a chronic... remaker.

now the next part is very important. tumblr REALLY likes to make shit blurry as hell lately. So we sharpen to combat that. go ahead and select one of your elements in the layers panel - go up to filter - > convert to smart filters. go BACK up to filters - > sharpen - > sharpen. i do this for every single layer, including the text.

after that. i simply save the psd, and then export the divider itself (WITHOUT THE BACKGROUND LAYER TOGGLED ON) as a png. and voila!

a very crappy very quickly made divider.

please note that i am like... not formally trained in photoshop at all. i'm actually an idiot and my beloved partner helps me a lot. but if you have any specific questions, i'm happy to answer them. mwah mwah happy graphicing.

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myaimiztrue · 8 months ago

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just found this awesome site that's a perfect source for blinkies, dividers, clipart, banners, backgrounds, gifs, and more!!

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codenamehazard · 1 year ago

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.:Of Brick and Bone:.

Chapter 6: Of Brick and Bone

Hey guys! I've been having a creative spike so I decided to capitalize on it! Took the clipart that @rogueshadeaux made for the cover page she made for me and turned it into the new banner and made another chapter! I'm super excited as the world of the Wildlands will start to unfold and I can stop talking in code!

Take note that I will most likely be reformating my previous chapters to match this style as it looks more cleaned up, but I might change my mind, so who knows.

A big shout out to @rogueshadeaux as always! She has pretty much become my fic-writing partner in crime in this crazy rigmarole and has helped me greatly as a writer! Check out her works! She's an extremely talented writer with big plans for her own fic, InFAMOUS: Erosion!

I hope you enjoy!

Darkness… For a long while, there was nothing but darkness. That’s fine, I was asleep. Darkness is to be expected, better than the nightmares; that’s for sure. It had been a few days since I left Fracture and left an impression as well. No doubt those bastards have now realized who had strolled into town and turned several blocks into a warzone. Heh, bet they’ll be living in fear now. It hardly matters at this point. I am sleeping for the first time in a while, so I’m making the most of the slumber and the darkness.

A curious feeling washes over me, the feeling of… Weightlessness. A specific kind of weightlessness that I haven’t felt since…

I start to flail and panic, water! Water!! My mind races in fear as I try to free myself from what I believed would be a wet and electrified grave when rational thought pierces through the instinctual fear of death. If I was actually in water, I would be dead already.

My eyes open and what I see takes my breath away. Instead of the darkness or the nightmares, the scene around me was like that of the bottom of the ocean, but there was no bottom. Light rippled and shimmered, it was like I was underwater yet not only am I not electrocuting myself; I could also breathe.

I move my arms and legs around, feeling the same watery drag that I remember from times long ago. Muscles engaging, recalling memories long lost and resigned to never be used again, I swim through this strange ethereal liquid. The feelings that rush through my body are a curious combination, a mix of fear, excitement and awe. After all, I thought I would never be able to swim again and yet here I am, be it in a dream.

Small flickers of light start to shimmer to life, flitting through the water, reminding me of the lightning bugs I used to chase when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I watch them and the faintest ghost of a smile forms on my face as I marveled at the sight, reveling in the rare peaceful dream I was afforded this night.

The lights started to form into shapes, almost like constellations. Lines connected the small dots, then more lines form around the skeleton to create a full picture.

Animals.

First one, then two, then more and more. Soon I am surrounded by a menagerie of these strange beasts. All of them, running, flying and swimming freely. One of the creatures catches my attention as it begins to swim around me. My eyes widen as I am quickly able to identify the creature. It is a shark.

The finned beast swims around me at first, seeming not all that interested in me, but that disinterest didn’t last long. The creature turns to face me and swims towards me. Panic floods my mind as I watch the starry shark charge at me, I try to move but find I am paralyzed.

Shitshitshitshit!! I continue to will myself to move, pure fear chilling my blood ice-cold as the aggressing animal rapidly approaches. Its eyes black and its jaws opening; revealing those deadly teeth. I attempt to will myself awake, screaming into the void to wake up. Am I going to die in this dream turned nightmare?! Is this really how everything is going to end??

The shark lunges at my head and-

HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!!

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I jolt awake and onto my feet at the sudden sound and scramble out of the way before I see the source of the sound blow by me. A deep and angry growl rumbles in my chest as I look to see whatever the fuck that was.

It was some sort of off-roading SUV, but it was moving too fast for me to make out. Didn’t really matter at this point, whatever brain-dead idiot that was driving the damn thing just about ran me over!! My electricity flares to life as I fire off several Hellfire rockets towards the offending vehicle; teach the bastard a lesson if he survives.

The SUV starts to swerve as the salvos flew right at it, a grin grows across my face as I imagine the panic on the driver’s face seeing the black and red, smoking swarm heading their way. The expression was short lived as I see a passenger put up a shield and block some of the hits as the vehicle turns around and starts driving towards me. My grin returns, they don’t know what they’re up against.

The SUV charges forward and I see… Oh what the fuck?! Is one of these fuckers throwing bricks at me?? I run to get out of the way of the shots, narrowly avoiding taking one to the head. God has the world turned into a Wile E Coyote cartoon as of late?? I start returning fire as the driver creates a barrier over the vehicle. The barrier was bone white, with twists and loops, looking like corals you’d find in the ocean. Why does that look so… Familiar?

Shots of brick, bone and bolts wizz through the air as the SUV got closer. When I notice my bolts are doing nothing to the shield, I take aim at the vehicle and start trying to shoot out the tires. It swerves before gunning it towards me, the bone retracting and revealing what looked like red-brown spikes in the front. I leap out of the way before I get speared.

I can see the vehicle clearly and… Wait, is that a jeep?? And why does the driver look familiar??

The jeep skids off to the side before the two passengers leap out with guns blazing, wait. The bricks and bones were coming out of the gun?? This place is getting nuttier by the minute!! With a sweep of my arms I send shockwave after shockwave to knock the projectiles away, this seems to jog something in the memory of one of the combatants as they hold their arm out.

“Hold your fire!” A woman’s voice rings out. One I remember from years ago. Her partner looks at her questioningly as we all stare at each-other. With the fighting halted, I can now see who my opponents are. One of them is massive and built like a brick shithouse. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was taller than me. His body is covered in what looks like bricks shaped to look like the scales of a pinecone and his face is covered by a black helmet of some kind, reminds me of a spartan helmet.

The one who really caught my attention is the other. A woman who wears a grey cloak that shimmers like scales and a white mask that looks like the skull of a shark, complete with teeth and a moving jaw. Her skin also shimmers like the cloak, like… Shark’s skin. The longer I look at her, the more familiar she looks to me. It wasn’t until she spoke that I got my answer.

“Cole…?” The woman’s voice questioned as she removed her mask, showing bright blue eyes. Yep, it was definitely her.

“Romee?” I question back in kind, but I knew it was her. She was one of the first to be activated by John when he was the Beast and stayed with the army until she eventually split off and went on her own way. “Romee, is that you?” I could feel a smile creeping onto my face. I wasn’t the kind of man to bound over, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t happy to see a familiar face.

“Mako.” She says with a soft smile and a rubbing of the back of her head. “It’s Mako now.” I stare at her in utter shock. Mako was what I called her back when she ran with me and Kuo. Called her that because the girl had the teeth of a shark and a bite to match. Never would I think she would use it as a moniker!

“So you’re the infamous “Demon of Empire City” that has been causing quite a stir.” I hear the shit brickhouse pipe up, standing tall and looking me over. I look over at him, his tone was very much off putting, but compared to the asshats back at Fracture? Well, he’s being polite.

“Yeah, what of it?” I grunt out. The bulky spartan narrows his eyes cautiously at me before rolling his shoulders a bit.

“Heard a lot about you, both from radio chatter and from Mako. She speaks highly of you.”

“Hmph, Color me surprised.” I couldn’t help but to let out an amused chuckle. “Not often I hear people talking about me in a positive light.” The spartan seems to relax some after hearing that.

“Well, you do have a reputation, regardless of the praise Mako gives.” I put my hands up in mock surrender and grin.

“Guilty as charged.”

“Finally had enough with Kuo?” Mako asks as she relaxes. I nod.

“Yeah.The icy harpy pushed me too far, told her where she could shove her so called “morality” before booking it.” I stretch my arms out now that the tension is dissipating some. She nods.

“Honestly thought you would have broken off sooner. I saw the way the wind was blowing and how Kuo wasn’t listening to the bright red flags and warnings; I booked it before I thought things got ugly.” I nod back.

“Smart move.”

“Safe to say you’re the one who turned part of the Market district in Fracture into a smoldering mess?” The spartan asks as he relaxes his stance, his rifle pointing at the ground. I put a hand up.

“Hey. I was being robbed and the bitch was putting up one hell of a fight.” I clarify, earning me an eyebrow raise from the living brick wall in front of me.

“Is that so?” He questions, I nod in response.

“Mhm. Had my eyes on a blast shard stash, but then some smokey bitch with a white spirit mask of some kind dashed out and grabbed them before taking off.” I explain, my voice growing angrier by the second. Mako and the tank look at me, listening as I continue. “Got into a scrap, the fucker grew metal claws and tore the shit out the shirt I had just gotten. Managed to beat her down, but when I was about to take her out some knock-off plague doctor looking beanpole shows up out of nowhere and knocks me away with a burst of wind. Bonnie and Clyde took off on an air-current after that and I was unable to catch them.”

Mako’s eyebrows seem to furrow in the tell-tale way that tells me something is clicking in her mind, and from what little I see from the helmet, I knew the spartan’s expression mirrored hers, but to a lesser extent.

“As you can plainly see, I’m in need of a new shirt. I also discovered that the bastards in Fracture jipped me. Gave me either expired rations or the really cheap shit. So I have to resupply sooner than I want to and there’s no way in hell I’m going back to that shithole.” I grumbled, my irritation growing. Though, I’d be lying if I said the thought of going back to Fracture just to reduce it to nothing but atoms wasn’t a very tempting thought.

“Well, Fracture’s always been like that.” Mako says as she rubs the back of her head. “They're not very fond of outsiders. If you're not part of their little clique, they’ll treat you like shit.” The look in her eyes tells me all I need to know about her experience with the place. I couldn’t help but to chuckle.

“Basically they’re those rich bitch kids who think their shit don’t stink because they were born into a rich family.” I snicker. My mind going back to my college days.

“Pretty much.” Mako responds with a shrug.

“If a more friendly Conclave is what you’re looking for, we can take you there.” The spartan pipes up. “We aren’t really welcome in many places for various reasons, so we always mark down any towns that’s friendly to Conduits of all creeds.” I tilt my head.

“You offering to take me there?” I ask, my eyes slightly narrowed in apprehension. He nods.

“Yeah, we’ve been needing to head back up to Droptown anyways to do some trading with the merchants there. Taking you there shouldn’t be an issue.” I hum softly in thought, running my hand over the stubble on my chin. I don’t quite trust the man, but at this point… I really don’t have much of a choice.

“Alright, but know I won’t hesitate to put you in the ground if you try and screw me over. I’ve been dicked around too many times and my patience is short.” I warn, the man gives a chuckle.

“Understood, Mako has told me a lot about you. So I know you’re a man of your word. For better and worse.” Well, at least I don’t have to repeat myself.

“By the way.” I stated. “I don’t think I’ve gotten your name.”

“Oh!” The spartan exclaims. “The name’s Pangolin.” He holds his hand out and I shake it, firm grip, good.

“Pleasure to meet you.” I answer.

“It’s probably best we get going.” Pangolin points out. “Standing here will definitely attract raiding parties and while a good scrap is always fun, we should be getting back to the convoy.” Convoy? Well this will be a very interesting road trip. I nod in agreement before heading towards the closest powerline.

“Hey! Where are you going?” Mako calls out, I turn my head to look back at her.

“Didn’t you want me to come with?” I question, my face twisting into an expression of confusion.

“Yeah, but aren’t you going to join us in the Jeep?” I couldn’t help but to give Mako the look of Are you serious? when I hear that question.

“Mako, did you hit your head on something and forgot a particular detail?” I balked.

“I know, but this jeep is different! It’s built so that all Conduits can safely ride in it, even those who would otherwise blow it up!” She practically beams, I raise my eyebrow before walking over to her.

“You can try it if you don’t believe it.” Mako chimes, it sounded almost like a dare. I pop my neck, fighting off a smirk.

“Well, if you insist. Just don’t be pissed when it blows sky high.” I quip before climbing up into the Jeep. The smirk on Mako’s face widens as I get into the back seat. So far so good, I guess… Nothing’s happened yet, but I haven’t sat down. I brace myself for the inevitable explosion as I sit down in the back seat, ready for the thing to blow up…

Nothing happened.

Instead of feeling the heating of metal, I could feel a Ray Field energy source somewhere in the vehicle, it was almost like a Blast Core. I spark up my arms to really test it and to my pleasant surprise, nothing happened. No explosion, no short-circuiting, nothing. Once the other two got into the jeep, I couldn’t help but to relax. Flopping my head back and groaning as I feel the ache in my feet. I forgot how nice it was to just sit back and relax in a car, I can now rest my sore feet for a little while.

“See?” Mako chimes with a big sharky grin. “I told you it wouldn’t blow up.”

“Yeah, yeah yeah.” I jest as I wave my hand. “You told me so.” I could see Pangolin roll his eyes and chuckle as Mako continues to grin.

“You’re lucky we didn’t bet or you would have lost.” Mako bites with her wit and I can't help but to chuckle.

“Well, this place has thrown me quite a few curveballs as of late, at least this one is a pleasant one.” I comment as Mako nods and turns on the jeep. Ohhh how I missed the feeling of being in a jeep. Used to love to go off-roading with my cousin and his buddy, Keith. I smile at the memories of those reckless times and now I have a chance to have some off-roading fun again.

The jeep takes off north and I smile, feeling the wind on my skin without the tingling and buzzing to distract me. It felt so nice, combined with the dull ache starting to fade, I was practically in paradise. Times like these really make you realize how much you miss the little things. Maybe this time around my luck is really changing for the better. I’m not getting my hopes up too high, but at least I can enjoy it for the moment.

As we got on the trail I sat up. Looking forward through the windshield. “So, Mako…” I started.

“About those guns...”

#infamous #cole macgrath #demon of empire city #Xeno Writes #InFAMOUS: No Man's Land #fanfiction

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hydralisk98 · 2 years ago

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My strengths and ambitions

Generic skills and forces:

Research, "Creative" Writing & Analysis (atlases, encyclopedias, reference works...)

Multimedia Collaging and Video Compositing

Analog Media and Digital Data Preservation

Composing tracker music

Technical documentation

(explorable?) multimedia explainers

History (& alternate history)

Information technologies

Historical hardware & software

Sidestream software & "operating" systems

Linguistics?

Casual spirituality topics?

TTRPG crawl campaign setting & systemic designs...

Toybox tools and manifestation games...

Causal collectible card games and expansive board game mods...

Demoscene and game modding...

Vector / Retro Aliased Raster illustrations

Animations & interactive (A?)SVG cartoons

Free, Libre and Open Source movement (open culture, open hardware and open software, et cetera.)

Computer builds and overall customization (especially the looks but also functionality, both virtual and physically informed)

Sensible, caring and detail-oriented.

Specific skills (existing and upcoming) and emphasis points for my career

Page pixel dolls, banner blinkies, panels & other animated GIF graphics...

Printables (blanks, worksheet, guestbooks, greeting cards...)

Stickers & clipart

Stationery (especially legacy/obsoleted types)

Desktop organizers with bundled theme packs (even cursors, icons, sounds, widgets and almost everything else under the sun?)

Monero+Liquid online shop

ClipStudioPaint (upcoming...)

WordPerfect from Corel (upcoming...)

OpenMPT + MilkyTracker (tracker music)

ReNoise (upcoming...)

LibreOffice

GIMP with G'MIC

Krita with G'MIC

GrafX2 (upcoming...)

Kate & KDevelop

Version control with Git (GitHub, GitLab, GitTea...)

Homebrew responsive yet retro stylized HTML5/CSS3 static sites/blogs with Neocities + Hexo (and Jekyll?)

XML+XSL

SQL?

Vim & Emacs

Linux + BSD commands with both Bash and Fish shells

KDE Plasma

Linux/BSD/POSIX certifications?

Common Lisp & Nim (with C bindings?)

WDC & KKIT

SLADE & GZDOOM

Godot + Qodot

Hammer++

Entrepreneurship / autonomous work?

Dreams and projects:

Video rental-store full-stack ticket database

Fiction atlases and themed pointcrawl semi-historical adventures...

Cozy game levels for raycasters and doom-clones

Cozy social spaces in Qodot & Hammer++

Cartoon pitches & short animated explainers

Toybox sets and modular building easy assemblers...

TTRPG campaign setting and supplementary rulesets...

Stylized yesterweb responsive pages

Analog media production (music video and data Digipaks)

SVG stickers, PDF printables and OGG content...

Fully custom developer desktop environment themes & scripted auto-riced workflows

Tutorials, listicles and other long-form content threads...

Raw art files and game-ready asset / clipart bundles

Manifestation / affirmation Tarot-sized card deques

Alternate technological implementations...

Dumbphone / "feature phone", two-way pagers and other dumb specialized devices... designing.

Constructed language(s) with nuanced dialects and poetic audio recordings...

Library economy in diecast car miniature worlds for sci-fi films

My very own guidebooks and curations

Lofi illustrations, podcast covers and album digipaks with feelies...

I hope that does sum up my professional + hobby goals well enough.

#maskoch #maskutchew #goals #objectives #strengths

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