5 hours ago, Grandma said:

We're gonna get asked to leave if we can't behave ourselves.

Grandma, you crack me up!!!

And The Sun is finished!! Now I just have to write it up! 🌞

23 minutes ago, Starlight said:

And The Sun is finished!! Now I just have to write it up! 🌞

Yay!! I look forward to it! 💗

OK well it's finished for what it's worth. Now I just have to figure out the scanner part.

Perenelle - do you mean it to have wide black borders ?

29 minutes ago, gregory said:

Perenelle - do you mean it to have wide black borders ?

Nono, that measurement inside is the whole card. Plenty of room for cropping! I'm scanning it and shrinking the image to fit into the card measurement. The border will be about the right size for cropping/bleed. Just went to the tech support thread to check this out.

Edited March 7, 20206 yr by Perenelle

2 hours ago, Perenelle said:

OK well it's finished for what it's worth. Now I just have to figure out the scanner part.

 

Okay, so the 1.25-inch area that you left black is the bleed area and needs to be filled in.  You can fix this, don't worry.  Just extend the sky with rain all the way up to the top, right, and left to fill in the 1.25-inch "margin."  Do the same with the water/ocean - fill in all the way to the bottom, left, and right.  See also if you can erase or blend in that line you drew around it.  Then your picture will have artwork "bleeding" all the way to the correct measurements with only the important stuff in the center.

 

 

Edited March 7, 20206 yr by geoxena

YOU don't crop. You supply the image in the prescribed size, with no borders of any kind.

I’ve added a visual demonstration of bleed lines and of the safety area here

ALL MY CARDS ARE IN! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !

 

I might ought to start thinking about the words now....

 

(Yes I know, grammar, but I LOVE that as an expression of duty....)

10 minutes ago, gregory said:

ALL MY CARDS ARE IN! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !

 

I might ought to start thinking about the words now....

 

(Yes I know, grammar, but I LOVE that as an expression of duty....)

I saw it, well done!! 🥳

Not quite finished (and a quick photo rather than a scan, which makes bits of it seem rather weak), but thought I might as well try a completely different style for my last one! This is the Nurturer of Air, explaining away the mysteries of the Moon to a group of children... because what he does best is bring clarity and understanding, cutting through mysteries and showing the reality. He's not interested in being a ruler, or going out on adventures; his goal is to help others to see.  

 

 

Hi Wanderer, it's coming along nicely - interesting how many of us have used crayons. Perenelle, I do like your kissing fishes. 

 

Re. scanning crayon, I discovered something only an hour ago that could have saved me a whole load of corrective work in Photoshop  - i.e. that there's an option on my Preview scanning window to 'correct fading', which seems to be worse when scanning crayon than with paint. I checked the tiny box in the Preview window (I'm using Canoscan), and LO! All the colours were bumped up without having to jump through hoops and go round the block to fix the scan. Wish I'd known, but this info. might help someone else. 

2 hours ago, Pen said:

Hi Wanderer, it's coming along nicely - interesting how many of us have used crayons. Perenelle, I do like your kissing fishes. 

 

Re. scanning crayon, I discovered something only an hour ago that could have saved me a whole load of corrective work in Photoshop  - i.e. that there's an option on my Preview scanning window to 'correct fading', which seems to be worse when scanning crayon than with paint. I checked the tiny box in the Preview window (I'm using Canoscan), and LO! All the colours were bumped up without having to jump through hoops and go round the block to fix the scan. Wish I'd known, but this info. might help someone else. 

Good tip on the scanning, Pen! It did confuse me for a moment, though, because in the UK coloured pencils and crayons are quite different things... (crayons are what we give to  toddlers! )

 

Anyhow, done some polishing and scanned rather than photo (which makes a huuuge difference):

 

29 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Good tip on the scanning, Pen! It did confuse me for a moment, though, because in the UK coloured pencils and crayons are quite different things... (crayons are what we give to  toddlers! )

 

Anyhow, done some polishing and scanned rather than photo (which makes a huuuge difference):

 

Such rich colors!! 😍

2 minutes ago, Raggydoll said:

Such rich colors!! 😍

Thanks, Raggy! Totally different to my normal - this really was an experiment, totally out of my comfort zone, and with no guarantee of success! 

Thought it was worth giving a shot, though, and see what the reaction is. Can always do a different version, but I think it sort-of works, in an impressionistic sort of way...

I hope the concept works for people, too - it just seemed to make complete sense when I thought of it, but that may just be me. 🤪

59 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Good tip on the scanning, Pen! It did confuse me for a moment, though, because in the UK coloured pencils and crayons are quite different things... (crayons are what we give to  toddlers! )

 

Anyhow, done some polishing and scanned rather than photo (which makes a huuuge difference):

 

 

I'm in the UK!  Do we really call them coloured pencils? I always thought they were crayons as opposed to 'wax crayons'!

 

You're right though - I just looked it up (Penguin) - crayon: a stick of coloured chalk or wax used for writing or drawing. No, not chalk, methinks - chalk is chalk, surely to goodness? 

Love the Moon @Wanderer, the description and the image. Bravo for stepping out of the comfort zone ❤️

1 hour ago, Pen said:

I'm in the UK!  Do we really call them coloured pencils? I always thought they were crayons as opposed to 'wax crayons'!

 

You're right though - I just looked it up (Penguin) - crayon: a stick of coloured chalk or wax used for writing or drawing. No, not chalk, methinks - chalk is chalk, surely to goodness? 

Ah, the wonders of local idioms! 

I've always called them 'coloured pencils', and crayons are those coloured sticks made of wax... but yes, chalk is blatantly chalk, whatever Penguin says. Surely..? Aha, it looks as though the chalk ones aren't pure chalk - some sort of new-fangled thing, no doubt... 

3 minutes ago, joy said:

Love the Moon @Wanderer, the description and the image. Bravo for stepping out of the comfort zone ❤️

Thank you, Joy! It was good fun, actually, if slightly scary. Since the Moon is a thing, thought I, why not make use of the concepts in that card to enhance this one? We'll see whether it works in readings, but hopefully.  This deck is going to be a lot of fun to play with... 

11 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Thank you, Joy! It was good fun, actually, if slightly scary. Since the Moon is a thing, thought I, why not make use of the concepts in that card to enhance this one? We'll see whether it works in readings, but hopefully.  This deck is going to be a lot of fun to play with... 

Yep totally agree it is going to be fun. But..... to call the Moon a 'thing'.... oh oh oh!!! 'It' is a 'SHE' 🤪

6 minutes ago, joy said:

Yep totally agree it is going to be fun. But..... to call the Moon a 'thing'.... oh oh oh!!! 'It' is a 'SHE' 🤪

That kinda depends on your mythology... the Germanic moon is male, for example! 

3 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

That kinda depends on your mythology... the Germanic moon is male, for example! 

Right I know I am from Switzerland 😉 And we wrongly learned the Sun to be female 🤪

1 minute ago, joy said:

Right I know I am from Switzerland 😉 And we wrongly learned the Sun to be female 🤪

Well, at least you've corrected your educational deficiencies now... 😁

8 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Well, at least you've corrected your educational deficiencies now... 😁

Exactly!!!