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The only good way is to use a piece of hardware called a monitor calibrator. Anything else is basically guessing. Your laptop screen might not have the same color space as your proper monitor also.
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Aug 7, 2017 18:20
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kshift posted:What's a good way to network with people looking to create animations or skits as a writer/music producer? Not sure what you're making but you should look at offering your services to people making little games, people always need music/sfx/ambient stuff and it's hard to find.
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Aug 13, 2017 21:37
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kshift posted:Funnily enough I do a lot of game styled music when I'm not doing hip hop or anything experimental! Do you know any good sites to find people making games that isn't Reddit? https://itch.io/community is a good place to start. I'll ask a well connected friend also.
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Aug 13, 2017 22:06
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I made an account and used one of their themes. I just added a background and avatar pic. Not sure how to get followers but I started liking and re-posting other people's stuff. I'll have to look more into how tumblr works. No you've pretty much got it.
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Aug 14, 2017 00:15
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As a photographer I don't want clients having the RAWs because they'll make it look like trash with their own editing and then tell people it's my photo. This is a very standard approach in photography.
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Aug 18, 2017 20:36
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Thanks for all of the help guys. My tumblr is mainly about struggling with mental illness and addiction and what I'm doing to get out of it and trying to live a happy and healthy life (lol). I have maybe 5 or so followers right now. I have quite a bit to talk about I've been discovering which is surprising and good. Due to the nature of the blog there are so many ups and downs so the posts are sporadic but I'm still putting out regular content. Yeah I think that's 80% of active tumblrs and probably the reason 95% of people run the other 20%. As long as you keep your ears out of their bizarre echo chamber when it comes to social norms etc it's probably good therapy.
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Aug 19, 2017 04:26
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Zipperelli. posted:So a quick follow up: Respond with "This seems like a rushed effort to get me something quickly and it is lacking the style points I had requested when I made the initial order. At this point I must ask for my money back". Why wouldn't you even try to get your money back?
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Aug 23, 2017 03:29
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Yeah grab an odorless thinner. Look into getting a container for it that allows you to reuse the thinner also.
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Aug 26, 2017 14:55
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Jake Snake posted:That's a good point I haven't considered. I'm sure that's still true with pigments containing cadmium or cobalt. With acrylics I used to just scrape the dried paint off the palette and dump it in the trash. I'm guessing oils dry slow enough where you can save the unused paint? Yeah carefully put tinfoil over your palette and it'll last a good few days depending on the paint and blend with linseed.
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Aug 30, 2017 23:16
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https://m.imgur.com/gallery/DmeQ5 Quake man
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Sep 5, 2017 07:30
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Watch a lot of the GDC talks on YouTube is you're looking for content to consume on the subject. Also look for the low budget pre-planned meal YouTube's at the same time because you will make no money.
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Sep 28, 2017 18:43
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Cascading Style Sheet
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Oct 10, 2017 00:00
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unaligned ant posted:First off, thank you for the Mod Podge lead, it's been absolutely perfect for my uses. I'm not sure what I didn't understand about it the first time around, or why I was avoiding it. Just use a cordless drill and a drill bit. High speed is best.
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Oct 15, 2017 02:53
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Photography is relatively cheap to get into as well.
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Oct 16, 2017 04:38
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wookieepelt posted:I used to write all the time and got out of the habit recently, when I had a kid and had to work full time again. I want to start a blog and maybe eventually do freelance writing, but that's a topic for the other thread. It's blogging a waste of time? What platform should I blog on if it isn't a waste? Do I need to pick a theme and stick with it, or can I just write about whatever is on my mind? I guess the goal I have with blogging is to be able to point to my blog when asked for a portfolio since I don't have any experience as a freelancer. Is that a terrible idea? What kind of freelance writing are you hoping to do in the future?
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Oct 23, 2017 20:13
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The Skeleton King posted:What do you do if you want to learn how to draw? I don't think practicing is enough to learn when I don't know the basics or anything. Is there techniques that make it easier to draw well? All I know is that no matter how much I practice my stuff is still garbage. I can't do perspective, posing, anatomical accuracy, lighting, or anything unless I trace it and even then it still looks like poo poo. I try looking for guides online, but those don't help at all. I'm assuming that I have to go to an actual class in order to learn. I was in this situation and I even took a traditional fine arts course in post-secondary hoping to come out of it better and I was still useless. Let me know if you find something that works but I ended up just finding other means to express my creativity.
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Nov 10, 2017 03:26
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Apparently that stuff is fine on YouTube as long as you include a loud 30 second poorly animated ‘________ PRODUCTIONS’ scene at the beginning. Honestly I’m sure nobody cares if you post that here but that might also be the critical reception you receive.
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Dec 16, 2017 04:40
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He probably sketched that in digital with a tablet but you could do that with a pencil for the outline.
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Dec 23, 2017 17:04
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Spinster posted:Total computer idiot here. Down the road I'm going to get a laptop (or tablet?) And I want to be able to use MS Paint. Is that something you can still buy and use on anything? It comes with every version of windows. It's ok to be a computer idiot - be aware though that there are hundreds of programs like that and don't make your purchase decisions based on it.
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Dec 23, 2017 17:30
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Spinster posted:Thank you. My mom has a Mac so I haven't tried to draw with it because I gather it doesnt the same way. You can get paint-like programs for every computer, tablet, phone, etc. You could find something free for the Mac.
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Dec 23, 2017 22:34
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Vilgefartz posted:I'm looking to buy some heavy metal guitar sound samples, like really short 2-3 second bursts of shredding and stuff. I've looked around a few website libraries and i can't find what i want. Can anyone point me in the right direction? The music subforum could probably make that for you as well.
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Dec 25, 2017 16:40
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Are you wanting this for only specific areas of the work? If not just hit the whole piece with a mix of sansodor, stand oil, and “liquin all” when you’re done and you’ll get a glossy coat. Try it on another test painting first maybe.
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Jan 21, 2018 19:53
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Shaocaholica posted:Is there still a forum/thread where freelance goons do 'art' for money? Just start an SA-Mart thread if you need the art.
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Feb 3, 2018 20:08
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:i'm looking into drawing some medieval maps in a style similar to the bayeux tapestry Yeah a photo with good lighting and then correct for distortion in ps.
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Mar 8, 2018 17:25
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To add to the above poster, 72dpi is basically the default for web images because that used to be the common screen resolution.
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Mar 27, 2018 14:10
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Internet Kraken posted:This is helpful info. I'm an idiot though so I still don't really understand what it does because it doesn't seem to create any visual difference. If this is something that only applies when you print, what happens if you save a picture as a png and print that? Will it somehow save the resolution of the picture along with it? it only applies when you print because DOTS only exist as dots of paint in real life.
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Mar 27, 2018 22:27
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g spence posted:I need a font type identified asap. It has the same lettering style as griddy blocks, but without the cross hairs over it. already tried idenifont and got nothing. currently combing 1001fonts.com but that might take awhile, any ideas? Are you sure it's not proprietary?
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Apr 8, 2018 05:07
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Narzack posted:Do we have a thread for resume feedback? Specifically, those of us in a freelance or non-office job? I'm a freelance sports cameraman, specifically, and I'm trying to build a resume, but getting pretty frustrated with the whole process. Post your portfolio in the dorkroom if you want crit on it I guess.
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Apr 26, 2018 04:09
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Tom Tucker posted:This is likely the wrong place to ask this, but I thought in the past I had seen a place where you could talk to creatively minded goons to potentially hire them for small projects and things. I have an idea for a small gift for my wife (one of those picture frame collages but with quotes from the songs she sings to our son each night rather than pictures) that would look 100x better with a graphic designer's touch but I'm not sure how to go about getting this, and not even sure if the timing (~1 week) is even feasible. SA-Mart thread is what you want to make.
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Apr 30, 2018 23:45
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credburn posted:I don't really know where else to ask this question, which is sort of circular in its own way. Start a thread and give some examples and I'm sure some people will pitch in.
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May 19, 2018 04:51
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Whichever has some sort of deadline gets put off until that's looming, otherwise it's wherever I had an idea or saw something I wanted to try.
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Jun 18, 2018 03:53
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lofi posted:Agreed. Buy her a nice juicy set of paints, an easel, something that's fun. She'll have plenty of time to turn it into soul-crushing technical labour later. Or IMO watch a few youtube videos about this otherwise you'll end up missing some of the color essentials for oil painting, or you won't get the stuff to do alla prima, etc. It's worth having a little knowledge about it but it could still be fun to go in after that with a certain budget with her.
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Jul 3, 2018 15:46
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Kaedric posted:That does sound fun. I'll look around for some art shops and plan a day. I remember when I started I googled around and there was an effortpost somewhere on reddit that covered the basics of oil painting including recommended basic equipment etc. It included some stuff I wouldn't really have thought I'd need but was glad to pick up. I think it also recommended a few Bob Ross videos to paint along to which really helped me. You and your daughter could set up in front of the TV and try to follow along if you think she'd find that fun and not be frustrated at how different hers looks from the Bob's.
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Jul 3, 2018 16:10
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Lincoln posted:Illustrator CC on a Mac — is there a way to change the default typeface? Every new document, I have to switch from Myriad Pro. Usually to Helvetica Regular. https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/illustrator/using/fonts.html#Changethedefaultfont
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Aug 1, 2018 03:33
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Lori posted:Some friends and I have all seen this exact portrait a billion times and we can not figure out who the hell it is. Can anyone identify this, and if so can you provide a link to the original? Looks a bit like Philip V (of Spain) to me and the red would then make a lot of sense.
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Aug 21, 2018 21:54
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Lots of medical anatomical guides will have full body illustrations.
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Sep 2, 2018 22:07
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Windows movie maker I guess.
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Oct 1, 2018 08:47
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credburn posted:I do a podcast where we adapt video games into weird audio dramas. I need a handful of people to (without pay) record a bunch of video game lines. Is it appropriate for me to create a thread for this purpose? I know about the recordthisforfree subreddit, but I'm hesitant in using it because from what I've seen, the most prolific people offering their voices there are kids, teenagers, or people who don't have a very good microphone. Not that I need anything professional, but it needs to sound... at least consistent with the bitrate of the rest of the show. Also, I have a better connection with goons than reddit? I'm still not entirely sure how reddit works. This actually came up recently and I think someone made a thread here and it worked. Or you could do SA-Mart but for free maybe I don't know how that works.
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Oct 1, 2018 22:50
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credburn posted:I do a podcast where we adapt video games into weird audio dramas. I need a handful of people to (without pay) record a bunch of video game lines. Is it appropriate for me to create a thread for this purpose? I know about the recordthisforfree subreddit, but I'm hesitant in using it because from what I've seen, the most prolific people offering their voices there are kids, teenagers, or people who don't have a very good microphone. Not that I need anything professional, but it needs to sound... at least consistent with the bitrate of the rest of the show. Also, I have a better connection with goons than reddit? I'm still not entirely sure how reddit works. I didn't bring it up initially because I wasn't sure what you'd find but I can also record some lines, I have a decent recording setup here.
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Oct 4, 2018 18:09
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