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[pensnest]

I've received a ton of emails about that programme I was muttering about last night, including a bunch of photos, oh joy, all in colour so I shall have to Attend To Them in Photoshop before I can put them in the programme.

To cheer myself up,

I'm fairly sure the texture on this is one I made myself. Love his expression!



I'm keeping this one all to myself!



Being Trendy with a notebook texture worked out rather well.



I'm keeping this one, too, because he is So Pretty.



Really pleased that this one won, because I think it's beautiful. Also, I did Good Things with the colouring, though you probably can't tell.



The texture here is by cdg



Usual thing, if you'd like one of the ones I haven't earmarked for my own, just ask.

Comments

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

you do make much very pretty things :D

(that batch of Lance Halloween pictures - inspiring of macros, no? (My Hed is Pasted On, Yay! and My Mens, Let Me Show You Them.)

[pensnest]

*smiles* Yes, those Halloween piccies are wonderful! I must have a look at them, once this BLASTED PROGRAMME IS DONE. Ack.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

*pets* - may the director be cursed with unfriendly traffic lights and persistant sounds he can't quite identify.


(Oh Lance! He made me laugh hysterically with those. The bone photo came complete with a JC 'Yeah, I know' in my mind :D)

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

*giggle* What a great curse! So very refined and yet incredibly evil!

[pensnest]

I just phoned a cast member to ask for a biog, and she wasn't best pleased with the director either. Oh well, I dare say this will be done eventually. (It has to, really, the play's opening on Thursday.)

The bone, the bone! *adores Lance MORE*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I can't see your icons. Which is much of the woe.

[pensnest]

How very odd! I can see them.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Tease! *g*

Firefox must hate me today.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

The trickyfish icon is beautiful! The notebook icon is also very nice, I really like the cropping you've done. The first place icon for _nsyncchallenge is also wonderful! Really gorgeous colours and I like the "double" effect (or whatever to call it), the kind of thing I admire but is completely incapable of pulling off myself.

[pensnest]

Thanks! That doubled effect is fun, occasionally - I find it's mostly a matter of figuring out which blend mode to use, and what % to set.

[abishag.livejournal.com]

I am totally confused by your programme troubles - which computer programme are you using?and where does A3 come into it, or are the layouts used for posters too?

Anyway, my sympathies, as obviously if there was a better, less hassle-fraught way you'd use it!

[pensnest]

I'm using Adobe InDesign, which is just as well. (if I were trying to do this in, say, Word, I would be completely insane by now...)

The layout is printer-ready—usually, I'm doing something that will be folded over into A4 'portrait' pages, so I put two pages onto each spread, and it gets printed on A3 paper. That way I can just save the whole thing as a .pdf file. When we used to do A5-sized programmes, they were laid out on A4 sheets instead.

This one, being A5 but *sideways*, has to be on A3, but printed twice per A3 spread. It's quite interesting doing the layout, a lot more imaginative than the fairly standard format of most programmes, but there are distinct disadvantages! Still, most of the hassle is because I do not have the content, grrr!

If you're interested in InDesign, you'd be welcome to come over some time, and I'll show you how I put a programme together.

[abishag.livejournal.com]

Hmm; thank you. At the moment I *think* I'm happy enough with my friend Publisher, which is *so much* easier for layouts that Word. Not sure if InDesign offers anything I would use and haven't already got. Am trying to work out if Pub would do the interesting A5-sideways layout you speak of. (I have to do a programme for our Selwyn college choir concert in March - but ofcourse a concert doesn't require anything so complex as a play, let alone a bouquet of playlets!)