guide -4-

posted 2009.04.18 at 18:30

Minor layout changes - the top panel was cropped; everything else was scaled. I would have gone for a matching scale while extending the top panel, but this is one of those pages in which the oldest photoshop file is full of merged panels, so there's nothing to deconstruct.... and nothing to gain by re-implementing the panel.

While the whole thing has rough edges*, I still love the look of the page, and wouldn't mind doing a short project with this sort of look at some point down the road.

* I mean that technically, not just artistically. The threshold filter (which is how the backgrounds got their nifty look) hasn't gotten the anti-aliasing memo yet. Not only that, it took me a long time to realize I ought to be ticking the "anti-alias" tickybox for the lasso tool when it came time to lay down panels with non-90-degree corners. Fortunately, I've moved on to newer and more exciting problems - with photoshop and with most of the rest of my tools.

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OPD : 2003.11.25 @ 21:50

20070721 : Scaled, removed Wired lyrics.

Edited 20050531 : Since the page isn't part of a spread, the top panel needed a margin/border. Now it has one. Made some minor text adjustments to shore up the bottom and generally smoothed things over a bit.

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Yay for difficult. I honestly didn't know if I'd be able to pull this off or not until the page was very close to being finished- a very agonizing situation to be in, I kid you not. Fortunately it turned out well, and nothing at all like what I'd envisioned in the original script layout for this scene - a script that's looking like it's going to need some very serious revisions, quickly.

Oddly, this page took much longer than average, and the resulting document is itty bitty teeny little small compared to the typical file size for an ATC page- we're talking 11.8 megs, compared to the usual 70-240 range.

Windows users or those of you who for some reason habitually prefer your monitor gamma the consistancy of mud will, naturally, have some issues viewing this page (apart from some issues with efficiency of layout).