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Published: 2011-06-10 03:08:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 106; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 6
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Just testing the new program.I hate color selecting.
That's why this is so saturated; in Photoshop, the color selector is a square with the light/dark on the top/bottom and the saturation on the sides, but this is a wheel that simply goes from saturation to light. It bothers me. Can I please have my square back?
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I want to, but I physically cannot. 
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You can get Photoshop 80% off with a student license. Yes, it works with high school students.
THAT'S $140 DOLLARS! Just saying.
Also, it's stupidly easy to crack Photoshop CS5. You don't even have to worry about updates to the program. With a text editor you can just prevent Photoshop from contacting Adobe's servers. It's been working for me for years. :ssh:
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Wait what really? I need to look that up. Like...with a student ID? Or what?
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After I used Photoshop, I was so happy to get rid of PDN. XD
But this looks good!
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It's so SATURATED. So UNCONTRASTY. It looks so different from what I usually do. I wish I had my own Phot--wait a second.
My dad might have a basic pack somewhere.
Oh my god that would save my summer.
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PSH! It's not as terrible as you make it seem. 
You could always commandeer a copy of PS.
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And I could...
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So, in Paint.NET the color selection tool is a circular palette, like this: [link] It really really bothers me because I can't desaturate and unbrighten the colors properly and therefore can't get good colors. So I switched to GIMP while I made palettes and bases because I remembered they had this triangle thing [[link] ] which was mildly better, but then I found out that they had a square like Photoshop does for color selecting. [[link] ] The dark and light are in weird spots [[link] ] but otherwise it's the same and it's easier to use.
/textwall.
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Oh, that's a long explanation for a simple thing! XD I get it. C:
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It was like four am when I wrote that, I was overtyping. xD
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Also, go on Skype.
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I don't know if I can now, but let me see what my phone says. XD
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Or you can go on imo.
[link]
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I think it looks good. But, I know what you mean about the wheel. Paint Shop Pro is like that. Sometimes I get very frustrated with it, but for the most part I have learned how to use it. Just takes a bit of getting used to (though I've been using it for years). What you might want to do--and I know others do the same thing for this very reason--is look at some pre-done online palettes, which will give you a nice color range. Or make some of your own palettes. This way you can tweak the colors and get them right and use them regularly. That's something I need to do, but I have a huge folder with pre-shaded bases I use, so it's not as much of a trouble.
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I think I had a base pack that I started a while back in the winter, but then my laptop got reimaged and I lost it.
I think I'll definitely do the palettes thing. It could help. I just miss my greys. 
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Aww. Well, I know what you mean. I always get excited painting a new base. But having a bunch pre-made does help make creating emotes a lot quicker.
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I've figured out my solution....
I'm downloading GIMP and I'm going to use that to put together a bunch of palettes, and then I'll just use those in Paint.NET. Complicated, but it'll work. [I like the color selector in GIMP so much more than that of Paint.NET.]
Painting new bases is fun, and usually it doesn't take me very long to make emotes because I know what I want and the thing that takes the longest is just tweaking the placement of the hands or other little things like that.
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Hey, that's cool. And honestly, back in the day before we had very fancy programs like Photoshop, a lot of people had 2-3 programs they used together to accomplish what they needed to.
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Ugh. GIMP won't open. It keeps freezing.
And that's true. A lot of people still use a few different programs between animating and transparency and the actual creation of the emote.
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I'm sure it would be awesome for you because you're all used to Paint and everything.
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I hate it. It doesn't like me.
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Yeah, there are layers.
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What program did you use?
I think the emote looks good btw
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Paint.NET 
I...it's not bad. The colors make me want to kill it with fire though. I usually use muted colors in my emotes, and this is just way too saturated. I love the orangey-pink. It's just too saturated and there's not enough contrast.
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