Browsing Archive: June, 2010

Armpit + Ears = My Photoshop Portrait Painting.

Posted by Trixie on Sunday, June 13, 2010, In : kvetch

I know that I've been known to dabble in digital art, machinma, animation, or photo manipulation from time-to-time, but believe it or not, I've never used Photoshop. The only image editors I have limited experience with is MS Paint and Sony Vegas.

I recently picked up a copy of Photoshop, and I've been wanting to dig into it since I know next to nothing about its capabilities. So, what a fun project for a Sunday afternoon, right? Not so much.

Some highlights:

1 | I used a real photo image to tr...

Boredom + Borrowed Contact Lenses = Stretch-Up-Blink.

Posted by Trixie on Friday, June 4, 2010, In : Life

If I keep this pace up, I just may become a blogger as opposed to a very occasional poster. And no one is more surprised about that than me. I have a growing backlog of potential posts that I just haven't taken the time to bang out on a keyboard yet, but there are certain things I come across that simply need to be shared -- and pronto -- in order to take full advantage of the fact that a Google cache is forever. This is one such example:

It was the first week of college, and people we...