Bugs

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[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Yay! Bugs!

Small suggestion:
You might try different colors for the word balloons when different people are speaking.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Different colours is a good idea.

How do you do your speech balloons with the fine black line around them?

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Have you got Photoshop?

The version I have has an oval tool, a rectangle tool, and a
rounded edge rectangle as well.

First type in the text.

Draw a black box or oval that's bigger than the text on a layer
underneath the text.

Use the magic wand to select the black box, and then go to
Select > Modify > Contract Selection by say 9 pixels or so.
(This will select only the middle of the word balloon.

Paint that area white, and you've got your balloon. :)

Scott

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The version of Photoshop I use (v.3) came off a disk I don't even remember getting. It's one of those mystery disks that seem to come from magazines I don't remember buying.

It doesn't have those magic wand options.

[jamesb]

You may have something like the LE version of PS3. It's been a while since I've used PS3, but I'll dig up the manual and see what options there are.

Scott, have you tried the Border feature (in v6 it's Select>Modify>Border) to put the black borders around the speech baloons?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Found it! brilliant!

I love youse guys.

[jamesb]

Batty, I just noticed the wallpaper on the screen in Bugs.

I know they're not the same image, but there was enough obscured that at first glance it was close enough to my wallpaper to really catch my attention.

Saturn 1024x768

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

My desktop is a screengrab from Celestia I made about 2 months before Cassini sent its photos. My newest desktop is the cassini photo.

[jamesb]

I'm looking at my PS3 manual, and it definitely has an option for Expanding/Contracting a selection or generating a selected Border around an existing selection.