Whee! Katsucon 16 was a lot of fun! I'll put some pictures up soon. Stay tuned!

It came like a flash, and when I saw it, I remembered why.

Taking a break! It feels like I've been working non-stop for the past week. Whew! I'm getting ready for Katsucon 16 this Friday. I still have a few things to do. I think the table should be pretty cool when I'm done.

Above you can see the iPad shirt I made in Animal Crossing: City Folk. I was so inspired by Apple's new product, I made a design! It was kind of easy since the iPad is so simple looking. LOL.



I really like how the back turned out. ^_^

Well, back to work. Gotta go refresh my browser a few hundred times.



I want to believe.

Well, we are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Blogger's FTP service. It served SGVY well for seven years, but now, we have to let go. Well, we're being forced to, but still... Fortunately, there's the Sketchbook software which will be taking up the slack...

Wait, why am I mourning? Blogger sucks! I've had nothing but fits with it, especially when making mini-stores. That's why I had Sketchbook made in the first place! I wanted something that wasn't buggy and worked the way I wanted. Oh well! Good bye, Blogger!

Above is a banner I've been working on. The original file is a vector, and it's huge, 33.5"x79". It took a while to get the text just right. I really like the big bold "SGVY". Also, not a bad Yuuki. ^_^

Next week is Katsucon! Whee!

Like talking to the wall, it's cold.

Just when I though I had escaped winter, it's coming back with a vengeance this weekend. Bring it, General Winter!!

Above is a sketch I did the other day for my new banner. Gotta start getting ready for cons! I need to work on my table and some other cool things. I'll keep y'all up to date here and on SGVY.

And now for something educational:

How to Synch Colors in Photoshop CS4 Between the Monitor and Cintiq



So, are you a Cintiq user who just noticed that when you're using CS4 that Photoshop fucks up the color on the Cintiq while it's fine on your LCD monitor (be it monitor or laptop screen)? Well, you're not alone. When I upgraded to Snow Leopard, the colors weren't quite right in Photoshop on the Cintiq screen. When I moved the pic from the monitor to the Cintiq, colors would be wrong, and when I moved it back, they were fine again. So, I went on frenzy to find out what the hell was going wrong. No one on the Internet had a clue, and updating my drivers and messing with my monitor settings in OS X did no good. Then, I realized this was once again all Photoshop's fault.


To fix the problem, go to Edit in the toolbar and select "Color Settings".



Next, click "More Options". This will expand the settings window.



You should now see a checkbox with "Desaturate Monitor Colors By:" next to it. Click the checkbox and set the percentage to zero. Yeah, that's stupid, but it works. As you can see, I went ahead and saved my profile as fuckyouverymuch.csf so that I can pull it up in future if Photoshop crashes or I have to reinstall it. I highly recommend that you do so as well to save yourself headaches.



Click OK, and voilą! Your Monitor and Cintiq are in synch! HOORAY!!

Well, that's it! I hope this helps out. After the difficulty I had figuring this out, I figured some of you out there might appreciate some help. Good luck!

Snow in my room.