ceecee's Starfriends

Thanks Prax and thank you Starfishian for the use of your thread. I appreciate youz guyz!

praxicalidocious wrote:

(I hope you don't mind shop talk going on in your thread!)

By all means! This is very interesting for me too!

STill so pretty!

starfishian wrote:

Not only does that layering technique do incredible things with colours, but it also makes the starfish look like they've been caught in a net. The more I look at it, the more I LOVE it!

Yay! I'm so glad! :) (And thank you!)

(I hope you don't mind shop talk going on in your thread!)
colorpie wrote:

Prax, do you use the zoom feature in seamless? Is that how you get the fine lines on the starfish? Thx!

I do use it sometimes for matching up edges or nudging lines into place. :)

The background lines here are actually made from the 'stacked chevron' shape you can find in the basic shapes menu. The 90deglock chevron has been squashed along one axis and stretched in the second, then tiled and repeated(ad nauseam!), and then usually squashed further in the first axis. It's handy since the gaps are always of a fixed ratio to the lines, guaranteeing you a clear 'mesh' no matter how you compress them after the fact.

The place where zoom comes in handy is when you are matching the mesh lines on the edges of the tile; this is where I will use the zoom function to try and eliminate the most visible 'seams'.

(...I hope that made sense; I can be a little hit-or-miss, sometimes.)

Prax, do you use the zoom feature in seamless? Is that how you get the fine lines on the starfish? Thx!

You're pretty much amazing, praxi. Not only does that layering technique do incredible things with colours, but it also makes the starfish look like they've been caught in a net. The more I look at it, the more I LOVE it!

And thank you both (praxi and ceecee) for your sweetness! :D

praxicalidocious wrote:

ceeceedoll wrote:

Hey, prax, did you do that half-tone thing to make so many colours?

Hey, ceeceedoll, good call on the half-toning. :) There are actually two layers of tone in this one, at a 90 degree offset to each other. By putting some of the starfish under one layer, and the others under the second(and some on top), it makes each colour seem like three similar colours. If you zoom in, you can see that some of the starfish have lines across them, and some have a sort of 'plaid.' (...Thanks for asking, btw!) :)

Starfishian, you very clever little fishy, and most generous!

Seconded! :)

ceeceedoll wrote:

Hey, prax, did you do that half-tone thing to make so many colours?

Hey, ceeceedoll, good call on the half-toning. :) There are actually two layers of tone in this one, at a 90 degree offset to each other. By putting some of the starfish under one layer, and the others under the second(and some on top), it makes each colour seem like three similar colours. If you zoom in, you can see that some of the starfish have lines across them, and some have a sort of 'plaid.' (...Thanks for asking, btw!) :)

Starfishian, you very clever little fishy, and most generous!

Seconded! :)

Hey! No wonder I love all these colours -- they're all mine!
You very clever and very tricky too!

Ooooh, I love my little starfriends, they're so cute and there's so many of them, in so many colours?!? Hey, prax, did you do that half-tone thing to make so many colours?
Starfishian, you very clever little fishy, and most generous!
I go to bed now with the giggles . . .

Gorgeous! :)