And you'll find this as part of the wall photos of Looters vs Photoshop. Pretty dark humour really I guess since people have been killed in the riots, and yet, I still find them funny, and in a way it say something about how people endure stuff like this. There's only so long you can be in shock.
This was another test of Illustrator and my graphics tablet. On the left is the figure of Bethesda, originally drawn by hand with pencil and ink, scanned in and coloured with Photoshop. The image of the right is the same thing but I hand traced the scanned line-work using the tablet in Illustrator.This took me about 2.5 hours to do, but that's because I'm learning both Illustrator and the tablet.
On average it takes me an hour to sketch and ink a whole comic page (the above is only half a page) and another hour to scan, process and colour it in Photoshop. Using Illustrator, I would probably still sketch the page by hand, but instead of inking that I'd just scan the sketch in and ink/colour it in Illustrator. Still working out a decent work flow as well. With the above I abandoned the idea of creating shapes and then filling them with colours. Rather, what i did was create the line-work on a layer above one that had the colour files.
The line-work was done using the Pencil tool with a variety of widths and with built-in in tapering on the strokes rather than using the pressure on the tablet. I found I got a better line that way. I had to slow down my drawing as well, otherwise Illustrator would mysteriously alter the strokes I'd drawn. Nonetheless this is heaps better than my first attempt (not shown) where I tried to do an accurate hand trace using the Pen tool.
It seems I have finally been able to reinstall Adobe CS5 (HURRAY).Luckily I was able to find a discussion in the Adobe Forums by someone who had exactly the same circumstances and problem. The solution (if such it might be called) was manually killing the AdobeAIRInstaller process via the task manager (although I used something called Process Explorer) whenever it froze. That was three times for my install!
In retrospect I can posit some causes for this problem, which didn't occur when I originally installed CS5 last year:
Anyway, I still have a heap of things to do, like restore a whole bunch of swatches and other stuff that I didn't backup, because I didn't know how. You'd think for any program (not just CS5 ones) that has a whole series of preferences and presets, the programs themselves would give you a way to export and import this settings. No such luck (or at least none that I know of in this case).
And where has all this got me? Back to my starting point, I'm afraid. Fireworks intermittently resets its preferences and loads the default keyboard shortcuts. Is that fixed? I won't know if and until it happens again. Sigh.
Did a few more comic pages and was very happy with the result.
( Vaguely naught comic CUT for those at work )
I've discovered that ALT, CTRL and SHIFT combinations with the left and right buttons on the mouse make colouring very easy to do. I spent last night copying over some palettes (there ought to be a proper editor for swatches). And in the image above, the showing was done using layer styles, and Tavern Title via Fireworks. It's still a good combo for me (oh, and if you're wondering, the little figurine outside the door is Priapus).
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May have mentioned this before. I just added it to my CS5 install of Photoshop (and