Bye-Bye Blue Lines: scan comic art and get rid of blue lines

Here is the best method I've found for getting those blue lines out after you scan your comic art/pages...

After spending hours and days online, along with hours and days of fighting with photoshop and my computer, my super friend Droob sent me a link to what I now refer to as "The Dave Gibbons Method".

I was so happy when it worked that I swore on the spot I would marry Dave Gibbons (Watchmen artist, if you don't know what I'm talking about - shame). He may already be married and I'm pretty attached to my boy Jameson - but when you try it you'll probably swear to marry him as well.

Also, we scanned in color at 300 dpi and at the end (where he changes image size) we made it 450. You might need/want to make slight changes as well. Other than that it's step by step and record it as an action while you do it - that way it's just a keystroke and you get to watch the magic happen. Dave Gibbons...swoon.



Here's the page Droob originally sent me, although I think you have to go to the next page to read what I've posted here. Hope this helps anyone who finds my blog - it made my brain so happy.

Tired and some fun...

It has been crazy at work and I feel like this:

But in fun news we sent out the Cosmic Cherry Sumission by post and by email!!!

Sound the drums and horns!

Too bad it's comic-con week and we prob'ly won't hear back for a bit.

Cosmic Cherry #1 Cover Mock Up

Doesn't it look real?!?!?!

I want to walk into Star Clipper right now and buy it!

At last...

Stay tuned for updates and fun crabbing by me on all the joys of scanning, sizing and coloring a comic.

all work and no play makes me lazy

it has been a month and a half since i've had a "real" day off. "real" days off consist of days where i spent less than 2 hours at work. i won't/can't even go into all the multitude of reasons that caused ths horrible achievement.

my clean laundry has spent two weeks on my bedroom floor (getting walked on - of course), the house looks like a paper-mail-trash-dish-clothes monster vomitted everywhere, and i normally have my taxes done by now.

i'm crabby and seem to spend any moment not at work on my cheap brown couch watching t.v. and t.v. on dvd. we have rewatched all of firefly (including serenity) and the series is much sadder when you know the outcome - but still fun, fun stuff. I have also watched the entire game of okami (it's so pretty) and 4/5 of zelda twighlight princess (i love helping to solve the puzzles). on a slightly less lame note i have almost finished reading war and peace. it was a christmas present and most people thought it was a joke. it was actually given to me by my roomate b/c he knows i read too fast and get very sad when a book is over. i also love historical books so it's been awesome although most of my favorite characters are dead or dying at this point and -spoiler alert- moscow has been deserted by the russians and taken by the french.

my goal today is to kinda straighten things around the house - a task that i might get done. tomorrow should be my first real day off in forever - so wish me luck!

dirunk

i'm a tad bits drunk.

i was hanging out wsith my russian friend misha - he's a fun guy...

where is the bozaphra - or danger- hat as you know her?

I miss and love that silly girl.

we rearranged our "artroom". For making space and art from the space, yes?

i love people and things right now - so you know i'm a drunk baby!

ciao!

geek and boz and yi and jameson (you knos who you are) = i love y'all!

everyone who said it couldn't happen = wrong

I am so excited! World Champions!!

Cards won the m.f. world series!!!

If only we had all bet on this awhile ago - we'd be rich.

And my boy Eckstein is MVP, oh I'm blissfully happy. I would have approved of it being Molina as well - but Eckstein plays baseball how it should be played and I'm sooo happy for him. We won without the big hitters doing almost anything!!

I want the reporter who said "the hardest thing for the tigers was going to be hiding their smiles as they beat the cards" to be forced to swallow his fist.

There were WashU parents in town this weekend and a bunch of them were watching the game. They weren't Tigers fans but the kept saying, "There's no way the cardinals will win - they suck. blah, blah, blah, bad team, blah, never any good" - I wanted to ask them if they'd been blind for the last couple weeks.

This is a dumb, dumb post... WE WON!!

Life likes kicking my ass...

I haven't been able to get any sewing done (sorry no team up SK8). I have a new idea to make my fluff birds a lil smaller and sew a ribbon into them and - tah-dah - ornaments. But if I don't get on that soon it will be too late.

Life, it's a fugger.

One of our managers has had to step down and now it's back to 3 kids doing a 5 kid job. And one of the 3 is preggers - so then it will be 2.

Every time I think I can breathe easier and not be such a workaholic something like this happens. And right before the crazy holiday season!!

I can't wait for mng evaluations. They do 'em in November and I think if mine are too negetive I will fall to pieces.

Ooooh, and all the drama that's sure to start...I just feel numb.

Loop In Motion

As part of my job (oddly enough) I'm responsible for selling employees wares all day during Loop In Motion. Generally I try to get some things made so I can sell my stuff as well. Here I am with the folks that sat out there with me - notice how awake we look and how atractivly set up our table is not:



This was my most productive (creatively and financially) year so far. I spent all day Wednesday and Thursday sewing and produced 18 funny looking babies (or stuffed animals). Here they are - a couple sold before my mom came by and took pictures:



and



They all sold but a couple and I made $130 - why can't I get anything done when I don't have a deadline?

i'm a death machine?

weird...

Which Firefly character are you?

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i really just created this so i can comment with ease on my girl danger-hat's blog and also my buddy sk8's. so, hi.