Kind of a post. With words and everything.

[active_apathy]

But first, if you like NetHack, you absolutely must try What Fools These Mortals.


All I really have today is that there was a passenger on a bus this afternoon who looked rather like Inigo Montoya.


Well, that, and I have this idea for an odd-ish sort of a vampire vignette that I should look into writing at some point, and I have lists of request things that I should really get done sometime, and I have my own ideas for other things to do, and seriously do not even think the word 'report' or 'essay' or I will beat you to death with a green pencil.

So don't. Please?


In other news, tonight I artificially aged a tiger photo from the Internargles, partly as a demonstration of film grain and faux sepia toning and such, and partly to see if I could. The original is a stock photo from here, and I'm kind of happy with the results, which look a little like this:



Happily, it's a vastly easier process this way than it is to try to make such a photo look modern.

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice aging effects! Did you add dirt/scratches yourself, or was it a filter?

And I won't mention the r-word or the e-word, as long as you don't, either. *hides from the, er, you-knows*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I do not mention the you-know-whats.

The scratch was hand-drawn with my tablet, and the dust/dirt comes from using standard filters in non-standard ways. You:

1. Make a new layer, and fill it with 50% grey
2. Add noise (10%, Gaussian, monochrome)
3. Gaussian blur the layer (about 3px)
4. Apply unsharp mask (500%, radius 2, threshold 0)
5. Use threshold on it (and just play with the slider until you're happy), then
6. Add a layer mask and use that to airbrush excess dust out until you're happy.

Also! Did I mention that I used your... um, glögg? Gløgg? I know it's some kind of modified 'o'. Still! Recipe. Used, was good. Very good. :D

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Neat dust/dirt creation method :).

And I'm glad you enjoyed the glögg! I haven't had the chance to make it in a while (latest recipe-testing is for masala chai), but now I really want some...

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I, um, got it from a book. :D

As am I! Even the smell of it is a happy, happy place, and it satisfied even well-experienced mulled wine/Glühwein/glögg enthusiasts.