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    Great -- thanks! I'll have a good look at that.
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    I'm not too bothered about the file size, to be honest; but it slows some Affinity functions down quite a bit on my 8GB laptop.
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    On a whim I found myself looking over some stuff I did in the sixties. After I finished 'Forgotten dreams' I thought it would be fun to remake some of the other doodly stuff. Many days later, here they are. The originals were made on A2 cartridge paper (some from a quarto notebook original doodle) and the Affinity versions are A3 (and over 500MB!) Former doodle, worked up into this ... If you're wondering, the chap in the tree is Patrick Troughton, second Doctory Who; in the boat are Prime Minister Harold Wilson and George Brown (and the head of General de Gaulle). The helicopter could be piloted by Prince Philip. This was intended to be the first of a series of illustrations to Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds, the Beatles' song. I had the last one sketched out -- newspaper taxis, Plasticine porters, a train in a station -- but never got past the pencil stage. I was very influenced by the fantastic colour patterns in soap bubbles in the sixties, and the swirly designs in the old pic were an attempt to capture them. It's much more fiddly to do in digital, and I tried something a bit different here. Needs more work, but it's a promising technique. For Christmas 1967 I got a record player! So I started buying LPs (albums, if you prefer). Then I decide I needed something to protect them when I was carrying them outside the house: two stiff sheets of cardboard, which I lined with cartridge paper and decorated. (I'm still looking for the other side.)The chap on the left is Bob Dylan, from a photo (that I can't locate); on the right is Stan Webb of Chicken Shack. And at the back, that popular bluesman ... Despite an appeal of social media, I couldn't find a copy of that pic, so I had to replace Bobby with another photo. I had no idea how few photos show him standing (bit with hos feet cut off) or sitting (but with his legs cut off). The original photo was in a Dylan songbook that's hiding in the attic somewhere.
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    Oh, I forgot to say: the old chap was black & white, and I hand-coloured him.
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    This began life (or was resurrected -- see below) when I was fourteen, at school in 1965 when Games was rained off and I started doodling in a notebook whatever came into my head. I've still got the notebook somewhere, but I can't lay my hands on it just now to show you the original scribble.But here's the weird creepy thing ... ten years or so later I was idly flipping through a book, A Century of Creepy Stories, at a friend's house, when I came to an illustration ... that was my teenage doodle! It was different, obviously, but had all the elements: the old man, the long-case clock, the water ...And then I remembered ... when I was seven, we had a caravan holiday in Cornwall. Under my bed, I found someone had left a book ... A Century of Creepy Stories! The room is by Vidar Nordli Mathisen from unsplash; the bath from a photo by Max Murauer from unsplash; the clock and the wooden posts are my own photos; the other elements I borrowed from the internet.
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    Well now, this could be a long story, Jules; make a cup of tea, put your feet up and ... Many years ago I was working for the Open University (in England), making intranet systems for the course design teams. Although we had our own in-house graphics department, it was often quicker for small items to make our own. We used Paint Shop Pro -- the outdated version 4 -- and, being the inquisitive soul I am, I set out to learn it thoroughly. A year or so later, I saw an offer for version 7, and paid to have my own legitimate copy at home. In those days, PSP was still maintained by its original creator, JASC; the full name was Just Another Software Company, later Jets And Software Company. In the end it was bought out by Corel, who have 'improved' it considerably. Oh yes -- the point! PSP came bundled with Animation Shop, which ... well, made animations: gif, avi, and a couple of others I've never heard of. It was discontinued long ago, but it's great for small jobs like my Unicorns. I have Blender, and one of these days I'll get stuck in and learn to use it. But what's the rush?
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    The Master! Well, it's a lot of work to animate them, which is why I don't do many animations. And the files are much bigger than the flatties. But if you're going to put temptation in my way ... Just remember what I said about finding work for idle hands! 😊
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    I didn't have to, but ... ah, why the heck not!
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    Well, it's un œil, certainly! (But if it's a serious question: no, not a T-L.)
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    Thank goodness I'm not alone! 😁
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    The devil finds (yet more) work ... Moon Landing. (Source images from Google search.) Hard Stair (Stairs by Gregory Morit, eye by Velizar Ivanov; from Unsplash.)
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    The devil finds work for idle hands, they say. I'm not sure if this counts as keeping out of trouble or the devil's work, but I've been amusing myself searching for self-portraits with a window and ... 'improving' them. (All the additional images I found with Google.) See what you think ! Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi. But if you will call yourself Bart Bongy, you're asking for it, aren't you? "No, YOU tell him he's in my light!" Marie-Denise Villers 1774 – 1821, self portrait with friend. Saint Luke reading the government's latest social distancing guidelines to the Virgin and infant Jesus. Rogier van der Weyden, 16th century self-portrait (He's the one on the right). Raphael meets Magritte ... Animated GIF made with JASC Animation Studio This is a self-portrait by 19th century Dutch artist Louis Meijer, but I've been very cheeky and replaced his painting with some artwork of my own. I used the Pen tool to select the canvas; if you switch to the Selection brush you can use Refine to, well, refine the selection -- it will do much of the work for you, so you don't have to work so hard with the Pen. I matched the drawing to the mask with the Perspective tool.
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    A great image! It certainly does have a water-coloury feel. And great to have you back! Here's to your continued recovery.
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    I've just watched the interesting and informative video Creating and exporting assets in Affinity Designer for animation and games with Bob Byrne. Bob mentions the menu item File>Share for sharing things on social media, email and so on. As I didn't know about this, I thought I'd have a close look at it, but ... it's not there! There's an entry in the Help, but it goes to a blank page. Is it specific to teh Mac version, or am I looking in the wrong place?
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    Well, the left side looked empty: it needed some weight to balance the right side, but I didn't want to take attention away from the rest of the image. I made several over-elaborate attempts before I decided on keeping it simple and unobtrusive.
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    I painted a picture of a view of Saturn from one of its moons, seen through a Gothic ruin, back in the psychedelic psixties. I've been meaning to update it for years: and now i have.
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    How tedious! I keep getting ads on social media telling me the creative world runs on a certain photo editor. Ours runs on a different one.Saturn photo from NASA/Cassini, starry background and merged texture from magazine freebies, stately home window from my own photos and my (hand-tinted) baby brother (many years ago!) from my late father's photos; lots of masking, clipping, a bit of dodging & burning ...
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    Thanks both -- I'll give these a try.
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    Thanks Wosven -- why didn't I think of that? Too long shut up indoors, maybe! It works; I found the Add blend mode worked for RGB. It's Clear in the English language version, by the way:-- I shall go and experiment with it and see what I can do.
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    The current Practical Photography magazine has a piece on how to do this with Channels in Photoshop: simply move one channel to the right and another to the left. I can't get this to work in AP: if I select any channel and move it (Move tool) the others move with it, whether they're set to not editable or otherwise.I've tried copying each channel to a new layer, but I can't find a way to recolour them and set a blend mode that gives the same effect.Any ideas? This was made in Paint Shop Pro, which has turned the RGB layers into CMY, just to add to my woes.
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    As a slightly younger crock, it was a little before my time, but my parents and grandparents told me about it when I was small, and I've studied the period since. Of course, Bluebirds was written by an American songwriter before the US entered the War, and it's an interesting story. He wanted to write a song like Somewhere over the rainbow to cheer up us Brits in our time of trouble, and also to bring the domestic side of it all to Americans' attention: as I'm sure you know, there was a lot of support there both for coming in and for staying out). The song was a runaway hit for Vera, to her great surprise! But it certainly did wonders for morale -- so thank you for that, America.
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    Oh, I wouldn't dream of competing with Mr Briggs, Jules!
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    Just spotted this -- thanks!
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    Well, you may say I'm jumping to conclusions, but I thought maybe Americans are as good at geography as they are at ornithology! Thank you for the compliment.
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    I see I've managed to upload the separate sections in the wrong order! And I can't seem to edit them about. done by mod By the way, those are NOT bluebirds -- they're swifts!
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