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Welcome Screen Limbo

August 8, 2006December 21, 2009 andertoons2 Comments

I’ve been running Photoshop CS2 ever since I got my first Mac over a year ago, and every time I open it I get this:

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I know I can turn it off. In fact it’s right there in the left hand corner. With just a click I’d never have to see this again.

But I have yet to check out the “New Features At A Glance.” I keep meaning to, and, doubtless, there are undiscovered wonders I could be utilizing this very moment, but I never click on anything.

You’d think after all this time I’d just turn it off, or actually explore some “New Feature Highlights,” but for some reason I’m happy in my own comfy Adobe limbo.

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Obsessing on Cartoon Captions

July 30, 2006December 22, 2009 andertoons8 Comments

When I caption my cartoons in Photoshop, one of the things I tend to obsess on is how the words work underneath the graphic.

Here’s a recent cartoon, and you can see initially I had the word “very” on a different line than the word “impressive.”

Caption

I didn’t like the way that flowed, so I changed the caption so the two were on the same line.

Caption1

But then the caption looked too large, and I didn’t like the shape of the caption, so I changed it to this:

Caption2

It might be better with “potty-trained” on the second line, but I always like the topmost line to be the largest, so I left it like this.

To be honest, I have no idea if any of this makes any difference whatsoever in the reading of the cartoon, but I tend to sweat the small stuff, and I’m fine with that.

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Another Photoshop “Watercolor” Experiment

July 10, 2006December 23, 2009 andertoons4 Comments

Here’s a close-up of another color I did this morning with the aforementioned Photoshop watercolor brushes:

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I still don’t pretend to know how to do decent watercolor, but it’s fun having some new tools to play with.

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Photoshop Brushes and Me

June 27, 2006December 23, 2009 andertoons2 Comments

Lately I’ve been downloading a bunch of Photoshop brushes to try to get some different effects when I’m doing color work.

Some of my recent faves are in this watercolor inspired set by Dave Nagel.

I had a little extra time this morning for a Good Housekeeping piece, and I decided to give them a try. I think the results are really nice, and I can’t wait to dig into these a little more.

(The cartoon’s not live at the site yet, but, for those of you who just have to know, the caption is ‘Bubble covered for 45 minutes, uncover and toil for 15 minutes, garnish with trouble and serve.’)

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The final cartoon