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andygates ([personal profile] andygates) wrote2007-01-17 06:54 pm
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Ouch!

I'd forgotten how much fun getting pierced was!  Today's wound was a septum, because I've got a few days off work to let it heal, and I fancy a bone through my nose.  Yes, it hurt, though compared to the PA it was snuggled into place by fluffy kittens.
The lovely Jess soothed me by playing to a weakness: she had monster feet on.  Big fluffy green ones.  Then she grabbed my conk with forceps and stuck a needle through the leathery flesh in time-honoured tradition.

Re: Wow!

[identity profile] n-decisive.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You are welcome. :)

I am not as good with photoshopping as you are. Somehow, unless I enlarge and take a whole lot of time, I can't get eyes to change colors without making them solid orbs of an unnatural-looking variety. I really thought your eyes were that color until I read your comments.

Re: Wow!

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-01-18 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Make a second layer. Slap down your discs of colour (with slightly feathered edges) and delete the centres (so the pupil and shine show through) and any overlap where eyelids, etc are. Then just tweak the layer's opacity until it looks about right - those are about 25% opacity.

Nobody ever asked after the zombie avatar, "Wow are you really the ghastly unliving servants of malevolent Haitian sorcerors?" My green must be more convincing than my grave...

Re: Zombie Icon

[identity profile] n-decisive.livejournal.com 2007-01-18 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
See, I didn't think that was photoshopped, either. I thought it was makeup.

You do make an incredibly good undead, though.

(Now I'm Googling zombies to see if they're technically the undead or not...thinking they aren't, technically, because they're just reanimated...the things that entertain me!)

PS-

[identity profile] n-decisive.livejournal.com 2007-01-18 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!