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Chiwassu.

Tutorial macam mana nak buat yang bubble tu je. Bubble ke namanya entah aku pun tak tahu lmao.

Perlukan photoshop. Tak kisah CS berapa asalkan ada frame animation board. Benda ni boleh memeningkan kepala [sebab aku tak reti explain], sila perhatikan screencaps tu betul-betul.

File > New > Create image, width dan height ikut pilihan sendiri.

Next;

Untuk CS6, just ubah setting Workspace kepada Motion. Nanti akan muncul frame animation board kat bawah tu. Kalau tak muncul jugak, click pada Workspace > Reset Motion. Untuk CS yang lain, click pada Windows, dan tick Animation atau yang sewaktu dengannya, eden dah lupa apa namanya maaf. Rasanya ada je kat bahagian tab Windows tu.

FRAME 1

[1] Buat background macam biasa. Aku suka edit dah siap habis semua [gambar, font etc] baru tambah bubble dialogue, senang nak fokus edit bubble tu je.

[2] Click pada Polygonal Lasso Tool yang aku petakkan merah dalam screencap di atas.

[3] Tekan new layer di bahagian kotak layer, bahagian kanan.

[4] Buat corak di tengah image korang tu. Temukan titik, nanti akan muncul garisan putus-putus.

[5] Sila tekan Fill Tool seperti yang aku petakkan tu. Pilih warna dan click di tengah corak korang buat tadi. So nanti benda tu akan jadi macam atas ni.

FRAME 2

[1] Buat seperti dalam screencap di atas ni. Click pada new layer lagi sekali. Nanti akan muncul layer baru macam aku petakkan tu. Click pada new frame di frame animation board, akan muncul Frame 2.

[2] Tekan Polygonal Lasso Tool semula, dan buat corak yang lagi besar daripada corak korang buat tadi. Dalam screencap ada contoh. Tapi pastikan di pangkal bubble tu, saiznya sama.

[3] Buat macam screencap atas ni. Click pada Frame 2, dan click pada eye symbol untuk Layer 1 [layer corak pertama]. Eye symbol tu indicates layer visibility, kalau korang padamkan eye symbol tu; layer tu tak akan muncul dan vice versa.

[4] Click Frame 1, dan padamkan eye symbol untuk Layer 2 [layer corak kedua].

[5] Kalau nak tambah size, sila repeat step FRAME 2. Cara sama je. Pastikan corak yang seterusnya tak muncul di frames yang sebelumnya; hanya muncul dalam satu frame untuk satu corak.

Screencap di atas ni contoh macam mana keadaan layers dan frames lepas aku tambah layer corak ketiga.

Time duration.

[1] Kalau nak tukar berapa saat atau laju pergerakkan bubble tu, click pada nombor yang menunjukkan berapa saat, di sudut setiap frames kat frame animation board tu. Nanti akan keluar pilihan.

Save.

File > Save as Web. Nanti akan muncul seperti yang di atas ni.

Di bahagian petak kiri; ada saiz gif.

Di bahagian petak kanan; Looping Options > Forever.

Then save.

Siap.

I'm in a hurry. Will recheck spelling/grammar later.

Humans' kindness can bring me to tears, sometimes I think I'm being ridiculous (but it's not something I'm ashamed of). To read about it or witness it with my own eyes, whether it's kindness toward humans or animals, I guess it makes me feel overwhelmed with happiness. I feel it from my chest to my throat.

Humans can be amazingly kind.

I guess I love humanity and loath it at the same time.

Recently I've realized that it's not easy to be soft and strong in this kind of world. Where vulnerability is deemed a weakness, where showing emotions is considered weak. Humans have different level of sensitivity. Those who are capable of feeling everything and still remain tough fighting on their ground, are so so strong. It's hard to do good to others when you've been hurt many times before. It's difficult to give flowers when all you've gotten were thorns.

Some, or perhaps most of us look down on sensitivity. Maybe because we have been taught that it is a sign of weakness, at least that's what has been implied in most of things in our surrounding. We grew up with this kind of thinking. It exists in a small form of 'boys dont cry' during our childhood and 'well there they go again' in our adolescence, and 'I'm an adult' from then.

And maybe because we— who have such sensitivity, deal with it the wrong way, subconsciously or consciously. And we— who are on the other side feel manipulated perhaps, we feel trouble and uncomfortable, and even guilty. Which can be exhausting. We ignore and avoid them, we ridicule them, trying to make them stop so they wont exhaust us ever again. At the same time, we— the sensitive ones, the people who feel everything try to keep the feelings in, bottle them up (because it's wrong). Which in turn, drown and eat us from the inside.

We are killing each other, whether we realize it or not.
(killing: for lack of a better word)

Sensitivity is a gift. It can be a bridge that links different worlds together, with people who may live in a whole lot different environment, with people who may come from a different culture or have a different religion. Sensitivity can help us to connect. It can be used to save others. And those who are highly sensitive, their sensitivity can save them, it gives them the ability to sense danger or toxic people. And that's amazing.

But it is something that has to be mastered. For it not to turn into a burden, and for beautiful things to stem from it as we walk our path.

There are people who cry in public, and there are those who isolate themselves and cry alone. Some people in some or most circumstances cant contain what they feel. So it automatically will be shown through their face expression/body language. It may be in the form of crooked smile, small voice, big laughter, smiley eyes, fingers touching etc.

Never ever ridicule them, don't mention about it unless we want to compliment, no matter how weird or funny we think their way of expression is. Our words can change cowardice into confidence, but they can also turn happiness into insecurity.

Showing emotions is not a weakness.

Take care of ourselves, learn to differentiate between sensitive people and manipulators. Sometimes they are the same person. There are people who use emotions to manipulate others. And there are those who are still struggling to master their emotions, it might seem like they use it to manipulate.

A reminder to be kind.

A reminder that sensitivity is not a weakness, unless we make it so.

A reminder to learn how to master our emotions and/or our sensitivity.

Also a reminder to recognize a toxic relationship and save ourselves from it.

Feel it, even if you think it can break you. It wont, the key is to feel it and let go. The pain will subside and be over once you let go. Be careful not to hurt anyone along the way if you can help it. Feelings are like the water. It flows. It has to flow.

Uh okay. Haritu aku ada cakap di askfm yang aku nak tulis fanfics. Yaaaaa tapi haaa hahaha tapi, ambil masa sikit. Tak tahu la berapa lama, aku akan buat cuma ambil masa. Banyak benda nak kena uruskan lately celamak aku pun tak tahu la amenda yang aku busy kan sebenarnya. Apa apa pun aku akan umumkan dalam blog ni. Thanks kepada yang tolong kasi pairings kat askfm (ada yang aku simpan dalam inbox).

Okay tu je kot aku nak cakap.

Sesuatu yang aku fikirkan semasa bersihkan sabun tadi.
(bersihkan sabun, oh the irony)

I don't think we can blame people for a particular thing when our judgment (off topic; honestly I prefer judgement) for the whole matter is strongly tied to our own interpretation.

Even if we make interpretation based on tangible proofs, the possibility for our interpretation to be wrong is still there. I don't think interpretation can ever be hundred percent correct or it can ever capture the truth in its entirety. In the general sense? Probably. But there are always missing details.

It seems people (from my observation) tend to take things too black and white. If they say a yes to A, then they mean a yes to B. That's not necessarily the case, they could mean a no to B or no to the other 24 letters.

Not everything is black and white. Actually, most things aren't.

But then, not everyone is willing to state a yes or a no clearly either. We are naturally expected to be able to read social cues. When this is applied to everyone, the likelihood for it to bring problems to our face is quite high.

The solution?

Clear communication, perhaps.
(perhaps, another irony)

Well now I'm wondering, do we ever make a judgment that is free from interpretation?

What did I mean by interpretation in my second paragraph? (this is a question to myself). I guess the only way to explain it is as follows: there are two types of interpretations, one is based on the abstract (or palpable? is an independent interpretation?), and the other is based on tangible proofs or inputs from other people. Either way, it's impossible to capture the truth without missing any details. But then what is defined as a truth? What do I mean by 'truth in its entirety'? Something that includes actions and reasons? The front and beyond?

The closest I can get to the truth is by consulting (or asking?) the person involved in that matter (the person whose actions/words I'm interpreting) about what is going on in their head and what do their actions/words mean. In the end this comes to the same conclusion, direct communication is the answer.

It's like, to know the real story behind a painting it's wise to ask the artist about it. We can interpret the painting in any ways but we cant take our interpretation as a truth (in the shared reality) and force the artist to agree that our interpretation is what they are trying to say (when it's probably not). Of course this is just an example. I probably wont ask an artist about the real story behind their painting. I get the fun through interpreting arts.

Kudos to those who can understand the nonsense I'm talking about, I doubt its comprehensibility (not entirely a nonsense to me tho). This is not my final thought, I'll get back to this question.

A side note; I'm sleepy.

p/s: aku dah terdelete reply to comment setting aaahhh.

Aku kan sekarang ni tengah deal dengan side effect ubat. God. Aku tak tahu la dah berapa kali aku menguap ni ha, padahal ubat tu aku makan malam tadi. Mengingatkan side effects ubat ni rasa lawak pun ada jugak. Less serious side effects: lack of balance, blurred vision, tiredness etc. Less serious katanya. Kalau part tiredness tu aku paham la. Aku tulis ayat ni pun dah menguap tiga kali kau bayangkan. Memula masa aku tak tahu side effect dia apa, punya la aku heran apehal la aku jalan macam orang mabuk ni kan nak type pun asyik salah tekan je. Hm tapi aku rasa yang aku hadapi bukan blurred vision kot? Tak tahu la. Macam glossy, dan kekadang mata aku tak boleh nak fokus. Trouble seeing kot? Dah la aku memang dah rabun. Menguap lagi. Aku dah tidur 10 jam sebab ubat tu tapi still mengantuk. Elok la tu makan ubat then satu kerja pun tak boleh buat.

Doktor cakap kesan ubat lambat, tunggu, sabar dulu. Hm. Yela.

Happy New Year!

Ok aku lambat.

Hari tahun baru aku luangkan masa di shopping complex cari buku seperti kebiasaannya. Tak ada kejutan, tak ada main bunga api atau mengira detik masuk 1 January 2016, tak kuasa, aku sedap meroloh waktu tu. Dari tahun lepas lagi (gelak sikit) aku rasa macam nak beli novel melayu tapi tak tahu yang mana berbaloi, tak cukup duit nak ambil risiko lmao. Sesiapa yang nak rekemen, dengan sukacitanya aku persilakan.

Makanya haritu aku beli buku pasal psychology, bapak mahal kalau tak ada modal memang aku pegang tiga saat letak balik. Tapi bila banyak info dikumpulkan secara kemas dalam satu buku, agak sukar aku nak menolak godaan. Bukannya tak boleh cari di internet, maklumat bersepah cuma tak sure nak mula dari mana. At least buku ni boleh digunakan sebagai reference point bila aku nak dig deeper melalui sumber lain.

Oh dan aku tengok Dilwale.

2015, self-introspection and self-discovery. Aku tukar plan yang aku dah pegang selama 5 to 6 years, honestly aku tak sure keputusan aku ni yang terbaik atau tak, but it feels right. Aku sedar beberapa cara menyelesaikan masalah, maka sekarang cuma perlu dipraktikkan caranya. Dan sedikit sebanyak dah kenalpasti cara aku berfikir, basic fear, basic desire, instinct, dan inclinations. Ada kebenaran yang memang susah nak diakui sebenarnya, walaupun (atau lagi-lagi) pada diri sendiri, it makes you feel ugly and disgusted at yourself, but it has to be done.

Aku akan edit blog ni, nak edit 'tutorials' sebab aku nak blogging semula.

Dan aku rasa macam nak tukar nama yang aku guna untuk writing. Tapi tak sure nak pakai nama apa, aku tak nak guna 'Nana'. Nama blog aku tak akan tukar. Dan mungkin aku tak upload writing di blog lama tu. Aku cadang nak upload di wattpad, kemas sikit, tapi kekurangan wattpad ialah orang yang tak ada account tak boleh nak baca rasanya?

Sesiapa yang ada cadangan boleh kemukakan cadangan anda :B

Happy New Year.

May Allah bless us.

I've lost my words.

Or maybe they are hanging loosely on a string, far apart and never met. Maybe thoughts are from feelings, images, connected by words. And I don't have those words. At least not enough, not right. Never felt right.

You know, that moment, when you thought you knew something but in the next second you are not sure anymore. And then you grasp it before it slips away again. And again. And again. And again until everything feels like they are covered with mist. You can see the shape but you don't know what it is and you can only guess, you walk forward with the hope to see it clearer but this never happened.

Maybe indeed it's changing every day, a little shift here and there. My view of reality keeps changing, the reasons, the assumptions previously formed are continuously broken down and built up again into something new, something that I hope is closer to the truth.

What is truth anyway. I've sort of realized or come to conclusion to be more accurate, that the truth, no, truth can be subjective. Yet truth is real, truth is what is and what was, the truth is one and only. In a situation, there are supposedly three sides. My truth, your truth and the truth. But if truth was one and only there shouldn't have been three sides. But there are, there usually are. So is it really one and only? One that can be counted or one as a continuum? Because what if what happened to me and to you were different although it happened on the same plane of existence? Different but both were real. Would I have to call it a perception instead when it felt very much real like a truth?

It's what happened to me. It is real so it is a truth-- my truth.

But then how to know the truth? How to tell apart a perception and a truth? Colliding mine and yours and see what meets and taking that as the truth? Is that what we have been doing all this time? If what yours matches mine, then it's more likely to be the truth?

A truth is what is true or in accordance to fact or reality, they say. But then, what is reality? Reality itself is dependent on perception.

This happens quite often. When it hits, it feels like I'm being stranded on an island watching the big sea of thoughts and definitions and what is and what does it mean. Trying to figure out what the hell it is, how far it is, what form it takes, what color it is, and very much like trying to grasp water, the essence of it. Colorless water that you once thought was blue but no it wasn't, you were fooled into thinking that it was when there weren't any colors from the beginning. And then you question what else you have thought wrong, and what could happen if you thought wrong, what effects that could bring.

How to know what you know is actually a reflection of something else? Like the color of the sea is actually from the sky or the things in it? And the color in the sky is due to the light from the sun? It feels like you are being fooled again and again and then you realize that your truth is probably not the truth. It's frustrating. You want to make sense of the world but the world just doesn't make sense. Not now, not yet, says science, or in this case what I think science says. What even more frustrating is that sometimes it makes sense when it feels too late to be. And then you are drowning in should have and would have, choking the life out of you. Your world is shifting again, melting, changing, merging, transforming into something-fucking-else that feels foreign to you.

And then you don't know anymore. You lost, you lost, lost, lost, lost, lost.

But again you feel that you have to know. And again you learn. And again it repeats.

I find it funny that I've yet to read Harry Potter and not even a fan, but I've read 99 chapters of its fanfics in a week and even made an account on a shipping forum, I'm not exactly a fan of those two characters but their possibilities attract me. I'm craving good writings anyway. Oh right, I even made an account on Pottermore months ago just to see what house I would be in, after reading trivia, traits of each house on wiki and after I had found the house that I could relate the most to.

Lemon juice is freaking delicious I should have known sooner. Well I call it lemon juice but it's just lemon slices with three spoonfuls of sugar.

Everything is blurred from too much reading in the dark. I'm going to post this before I change my mind or before I re-read and waste hours on it.

Questions I got from tumblr [credit]. It's originally an ask prompt.

sun: what makes you feel like you?

If it's about activities or hobbies, my answer is thinking. Making observations and speculations about life. Things like, 'being logical doesn't make it a truth, something can make sense to you yet it can also be a lie'.

moon: do you have problem with trust?

I was a trusting kid. And you just cant survive with that quality without scars in this kind of world. I've done mistakes that probably caused trust issue in others too. I see things in gray usually, but when people give me signs that feel off to me- I will take more conscious precautions.

rising: how/what do people say you come off as?

Arrogant. Confident. Quiet. Shy. Apathetic. I look angry.

midheaven: what do you want to be when you grow up?

Great enough for myself.

venus: do you flirt more knowingly or unknowingly?

Eh... I don't flirt? If I do, I probably view it as a conversation or a small talk. So probably unknowingly so far.

mars: when was the last time you got mad and why?

Well, days ago? It's started since I don't know, May? On and off. Someone disrespected my privacy in the worst way possible. I can't say much, but I'm sure I have every right to feel angry, I was enraged actually. What they did to me is wrong on so many levels. I had been wanting to destroy, since then.

Time helps to tame that anger into rationality I guess. I'm still thinking of doing something (no, not destroying) about it because I really feel like I should. I'm still weighing the consequences of my plan. But at this point I have a strong urge to say let's just do it and see what happens, which worries me a bit.

mercury: who's your go-to person when you need to talk?

Anyone. Basically anyone that I believe can give me a sound response at that time? It depends on the topic itself actually.

jupiter: when was the last time you got lucky?

I don't remember. 'Lucky' to me, is almost equal to absence of reasons? 'Lucky' feels almost like 'coincidence'. And I'm inclined to find reasons behind everything.

saturn: what are you the weakest and strongest at?

Currently: Weakest at taking action. Strongest at introspecting.

uranus: are you rebellious and do you act upon it frequently?

I honestly don't think that I am outright rebellious, despite my previous attempts or things I've done or made to be done to escape the control of authority. My rebelliousness is there but I'm not really flaunting it, especially for the sole sake of flaunting it. It stays quiet, until someone or something crosses me. Usually I'm not the side who acts, but the one who reacts.

neptune: what was your best dream and why?

pluto: what is your biggest aspiration and why?

lilith: what's your biggest turn on in someone?

Quiet confidence, definitely. Others: intelligence, rationality.

A reason to update this blog.

So yesterday I found out about the new sorting quiz on Pottermore, for Ilvermorny School. Well there's cultural appropriation issue being talked about on social media regarding the names of the houses, if I'm not mistaken, but I have to do some thinking to form a solid opinion on that topic.

Do correct me if there's a mistake:

Apparently the houses are:

Thunderbird (favors adventurers / represents the soul)

Wampus (favors warriors / represents the body)

Horned Serpent (favors scholars / represents the mind)

Pukwudgie (favors healers / represents the heart)

Information on this is limited, couldn't find much about it. There are people who try to find the equivalent of Hogwarts Houses, but for now I have to stand by those who concluded that there's no equivalent. The closest you can get; Ilvermorny Houses could be the combinations of two Hogwarts Houses, even this- doesn't feel quite right to me. There's an interpretation about how Hogwarts Houses are the why and Ilvermorny Houses are the how. A Gryffindor can be sorted into any of the four Ilvermorny Houses.

I don't one hundred percent base my decision on quizzes, still, I took the quiz earlier today (definitely before I read all information about each house, I didn't want my answers to be influenced by my preference).

I've learnt from my mistakes, I cant cheat on sorting quizzes. The last time I cheated or over-analyzed choices, I got sorted into Gryffindor and Hufflepuff (for my second and third accounts as I'd lost my first account with Slytherin House). And only when I answered truthfully I got Slytherin (my current account). I'm not sure whether I should take that as compliment or an insult; a compliment that I am a Slytherin or an insult that I'm a Slytherin who cannot cheat on sorting quizzes.

Anyway. Two snakes on my Pottermore's Homepage it seems. I got Horned Serpent for Ilvermorny.

My thoughts:

Well, it's not the wrong house. Honestly, it is the right house so far, judging by the limited information I've read. If I must find reasons for this, Horned Serpent favors scholars and represents the mind and I've got the same result (scholars) on various online tests before this. Even in astrology, Gemini is an air sign, and air signs (Libra, Gemini, Aquarius) are generally associated with thinking or intellect. My enneagram and MBTI type both support this too. I just have that bent toward knowledge, thinking, learning etc.

Although there are reasons why I'm a Slytherin and not a Ravenclaw.

More info can be read on Pottermore itself and tumblr. Suggestions: this and this.

You don't have to create another account on Pottermore if you have already had one. Must login to take the Ilvermorny sorting quiz here.

Feel free to share your houses with me if you are into this thing too.

Ok that's it bye.

Got out of bed at 1AM to rant about the reason why I haven't written any fictions these days.

Writing fiction feels like forcing myself to throw up. Uncomfortable is an understatement. Something's stuck in my throat and I'm not sure whether to get it out or to swallow it in. And what was the word I thought of in bed just now - it's exposing, it's like laying down your shortcomings in front of you and reading them over and over.

Oh I've changed. 'Better' is probably not the word best to describe my current writing, but it has changed for sure. I can focus on what I want to focus on, though most of the times the inability to put it into words in the language that I want can be a real bummer. That's my main problem these days.

And fuck boring details, no matter how much needed those are. I hate plotting out how they meet, I want to talk about the conversation they have at 3AM in the kitchen, I want to talk about how they hide their uncertainty and distance and stupid longing for each other during breakfast in the balcony, I want to talk about their emotional ranting in between sardonic laughter and ugly sobbing on the floor in the hall of mangy motel rooms. I want to roll up a magazine and hit someone with it and say screw details because I fucking hate it.

And me trying to polish up my Bahasa, but most of malay fictions I've bought as references made me exhausted. I'm not talking about the grammar as they are all grammatically correct, but something feels off to me. Maybe I don't have the knack of choosing the right novels to read.

I'm stuck at the point between not feeling satisfied with the fictions currently available in bookstores and not being able to satisfy my need with my current writing either. Is this the hell brought by reading fanfictions of your chosen characters with your chosen theme in your chosen setting? Probably. I've been spoiled by fandoms with their glorious fanfictions which some can be considered literature, even. Someone wise said, do not complain if you cant make it better. But I don't want to be that wise in this early hour, I just want to release this negativity out. So now I'm stuck with fanfictions. And I've read a lot of them.

Binge when stressed. Good job.

Don't re-tutorial

Assalamualaikum.

Benda ni aku pernah buat dulu tapi aku delete lol. So ni re-new. Aku tunjuk macam mana nak blend kedua-dua gambar je. Background poster cerah, background gambar pun cerah. Kalau nak buat background cerah, elok guna gambar yang background-nya cerah; tak banyak kerja nak buat nanti.

Aku guna gambar ni,

CTRL + Click kalau nak ambik. Gambar ni besar.

First. Bila tengok gambar tu, tona warna dan kecerahan kedua-dua gambar tu berbeza. Bila tona warna berbeza aku akan samakan. Sama ada samakan yang kiri dengan yang kanan atau yang kanan dengan yang kiri. Dalam hal ni aku cerahkan yang kiri guna kaedah Curve. Gambar kanan tu warnanya seakan biru ungu pink sikit. Jadi aku tukar warna gambar yang kiri guna kaedah Color Balance.

Macam biasa;

Open Photoshop, File > New; akan keluar macam ni

Width, Height ikut suka hati korang

Open gambar yang korang nak edit tu. Kalau dalam kes aku ni, aku upload gambar yang dua tadi tu lah. Kemudian drag masuk ke dalam file yang korang create awal-awal tu. Nak drag, tekan lama pada gambar dan tarik je ke arah yang dikehendaki. Lepas tu kalau tona warna gambar tak sama, samakan macam aku cakap tu.

Bawah ni aku dah samakan tona/kecerahan gambar walaupun .. tak ada lah sama sangat hahaha ok tak boleh nak samakan lagi dah ni hasil maximum.

Macam gambar atas ni, korang susun gambar characters tu betul-betul. Lepas tu tukar kedua-dua mode layers tu kepada Multiply. Nanti dia akan bertindih macam ni,

Confirm lah tak lawa kalau bertindih macam tu.

Sekarang korang tentukan gambar yang mana nak berada di depan dan gambar yang mana nak berada di belakang. Aku nak gambar di Layer 1 tu di hadapan, jadi Layer 1 tu mesti di atas Layer 2.

Cara nak buang bahagian bertindih tu;

Kalau korang buat macam aku, Gambar 1 di hadapan Gambar 2, maknanya yang kena padam di bahagian yang bertindih tu ialah bahagian Gambar 2.

Sila click pada Layer 2 dan click Eraser Tool. Right click pada image akan keluar kotak mata pemadam macam bawah ni,

Pilih macam yang aku pilih tu. Semua PS mesti ada jenis yang itu. Besarkan saiz ikut suka hati korang, lagi besar lagi bagus tapi jangan besar sangat. Opacity pun kurangkan.

Lepas tu padam. Padam bahagian yang bertindih macam aku cakap tadi. Dan padam di sekeliling gambar, untuk buang garisan gambar tu. Aku cadangkan, waktu korang memadam tu, sila main dengan opacity.

Dah siap, akan jadi macam ni;

Sekarang nak masuk warna pada background. Aku guna plain warna je.

Click pada layer Background. Tekan New Layer macam button kat bawah ni, nanti akan muncul Layer 3 yang kosong.

Ikut steps dalam gambar bawah ni;

Tekan pada Layer 3, kendian /kemudian/ pergi tekan Fill Tool. Ubah warna di tempat yang aku petakkan tu. Kalau nak warna yang aku guna, bawah ni ada code dia. Last sekali click pada image.

Taraah.

Okay sekarang. Bila tengok balik poster tu macam suram sangat. Kalau korang rasa tak puas hati dengan kesuraman poster tu lol, korang boleh ubah Curve atau Exposure untuk setiap gambar. Ikut masing-masing lah nak buat poster jenis macam mana.

Aku ubah benda alah tu so dia jadi macam ni, pekat sikit.

Untuk jadi macam poster kat atas sekali tu, bergantung pada textures. Sorry aku tak boleh nak bagi texture yang aku guna kat sini sebab sesetengah texture kena credit dan aku lupa siapa owner textures tu.

Steps masukkan textures;

Open texture yang korang nak guna. Dan drag masuk ke atas layer poster tu macam korang drag masuk gambar tadi. Lepas tu mainlah dengan mode layer texture tu, tukar kepada Soft Light ke, Multiply ke. Ikut mana yang sesuai.

Lepas dah siap masukkan textures, tekan Shift + CTRL + ALT + E serentak. Nanti akan muncul satu layer baru kat atas semua layers korang tu. Layer baru tu ialah gabungan semua layer korang buat tadi. Macam bawah ni, layer baru yang aku petakkan merah ialah gabungan layers yang aku petakkan kuning.

Step nak bagi lagi blend. Ikut gambar atas ni. Filter > Blur > Surface Blur.

Kalau dah puas hati, korang masukkan fonts/titles pula.

Aku guna 5 textures. Satu bagi effect kat background, satu bagi effect kat bawah, satu kat tengah, dua kat gambar characters. All light textures. Nak cari light textures, type je kat kotak search Deviantart atau Google. Bersepah.

Siap ehe. Good luck!
Adios.

When people say ‘I stop listening/taking you seriously the moment you say the words ‘I don’t think’ or ‘I feel’ etc’ because its implication of lacking in rationality or in intellect, I can’t help from thinking of lost chances.

Because not every word is spoken with its true definition in mind. Sometimes people use a certain word because they find it suitable, or the closest to what they mean; emotionally or intellectually, there's no way to tell. It can be difficult to describe the indescribable, not every thought process is as straight as a ruler; so they use the way they know, the way they can. Grabbing floating words and objects to piece them all together and form a code or an image, in order to describe what inside them— as accurate as possible; sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don’t, sometimes it looks/sounds worse than the real thing and vice versa. Because sometimes people misunderstood the definitions behind the words they use. That doesn’t even count body language, the nuances of one’s voice.

Sometimes details have to be looked as a whole— for us to get close to the actual message.

The raw message often slips through the crack between two words. It's in the in between.

In the end, we are the one who decides whether it's worth our attention or not, and when. It's a matter of priorities too, perhaps.

Assalamualaikum.

This kind kot? Sorry aku tak sure dia maksudkan macam mana. Kalau poster macam Aishiteru, aku guna gambar size kecil, dalam 500x400 px macam tu.

So here. Diperlukan;

Photoshop tak kisah pun CS berapa.
Gambar yang bersaiz lebih kurang 500x400 macam tu. [kalau tak faham, tengok contoh ni]

First step. Open Photoshop, create new image di bahagian File. Nanti akan keluar benda ni, macam biasa; height width bergantung pada kehendak masing-masing.

Nanti akan muncul layer putih.

Lepas tu open gambar yang korang nak edit. File > Open. Dah open, drag gambar tersebut masuk dalam layer putih yang korang created tadi. Tekan, tarik dan lepas. Kalau tak reti nak drag, tengok senarai tutorials aku, ada tutor macam mana nak drag masuk gambar.

Susun letak macam atas ni. Nak ubah pun ikut suka hati lah tapi aku tunjuk contoh kedudukannya macam atas ni lol. Then sila click pada layer background, tekan Fill Tool dan pilih warna di kotak warna. Click pada background putih tu. Turutan macam dalam gambar bawah ni,

Jangan pelik kalau warna background tu berubah dalam screenshots aku ni

Kemudian, tekan pada layer gambar korang tadi. Lepas tu click Eraser Tool dan ubah opacity kepada bawah 50%. Pastikan saiz mata eraser tu besar dan blur di sekelilingnya. Macam ni,

Kalau nak dapatkan kotak kat bawah tu, just right click pada mana-mana bahagian lepas korang tekan Eraser Tool tadi.

Lepas tu padam bahagian bawah gambar tersebut. Semakin korang padam ke atas, sila guna saiz mata tool yang lagi besar dan opacity yang makin perlahan. Nanti dia akan well blend. Lagi afdal kalau korang ubah mode gambar nak diedit tu kepada Multiply.

Siap, macam atas ni. So sekarang tinggal nak masuk texture. Aku tak boleh bagi texture ni kat sini sebab texture ni bukan aku punya. Lagipun aku lupa dari mana aku dapat lol. Rasanya link owner texture ni ada dalam list credit kat bahagian tag aku tu. Sila guna light texture, boleh search kat Deviantart.

Open dan drag masuk dalam layer poster korang tadi.
Ubah mode kepada screen, seeloknya.

Lepas tu siap.
Like this yo like this lol.

Adios.

Assalamualaikum

Bagi yang selalu edit edit ni kan, agak frust bila kita terjumpa satu gambar yang lawa gila tapi bila click, size-nya kecik ~~nak mampuih~~ besar siput. So dengan hampanya terpaksa cari gambar lain.

Wait. Tak payah. Hendak seribu daya, tak nak seribu dalih. Let's say yang seorang manusia ni kepala batu nak jugak gambar tu tapi nak dalam HQ.

Simple;

First, pergi open pakcik Gugel yang bijaksana tu dan type je apa-apa gambar yang korang nak. Tekan bahagian image. Kemudian korang pilihlah gambar yang korang nak. Nanti keluar macam ni,

Yang aku petakkan merah tu size gambar yang dijumpai. Tekan yang aku petakkan kuning tu. More sizes.

Then wallah,

Sila jerit dengan seronoknya. Yang aku petak merah tu saiznya lagi besar daripada yang sebelum ni.

Cara nak ambik;

Click pada gambar dan tekan yang aku petakkan ni. View original image. Pastu right click dan save.

Maklumat tambahan: Untuk gambar yang diedit oleh para pengguna tumblr, selalunya tak ada saiz yang lagi besar daripada 550px. Yang ada saiz lagi besar sampai 1000px ni mostly gambar photoshoot.

Adios.

Assalamualaikum.

Rupanya aku tak buat tutor pasal benda ni lagi lol.
So. Tengok gambar kat atas tu, dia ada banyak versi warna kan. Nak tukar tona warna kepada banyak jenis warna boleh guna Color Balance.

First, open Photoshop apa apa CS pun.
Open gambar yang korang nak edit dan tekan macam bawah ni,

Lepas tu akan muncul benda alah ni.

Korang ubahlah ikut suka hati. Semua boleh ubah lol.

Adios.

When there's no line, when you don't make one for yourself, the world— they will make one for you. They will take away the stick from your hand and draw it on the ground themselves and say, 'There! That's your line'. And each of them will draw a different one, again and again— according to their beliefs, according to their reality, according to them.

That line?

That single line determines everything. It determines is and isn't, it determines right and wrong, it determines should and shouldn't, it determines can and cannot. It's the rule, it's the space. It's your power, it's also the power that you relinquish.

The more you give, the more they take, the more they ask. That's how it often happens. One of ways to stand against this flow; they need to be told that there is a line that can't be crossed. If it matters to them, they will respect that. If it doesn't, that might be the time to fight for it or to leave.

While it's essential to adjust to the world, a line has to be there so you won't lose yourself. A line that tells them to stay the hell away because everything they can take is before the line, but nothing past, as there are things that can be compromised, and there are things that can't.

So, what and where's yours?

Atau mock-up.
Ini photoshop tutorial.

Ok, apa itu mockup? Aku sangat suka mockup. Mockup ni macam template, model atau replika. Aku nak fokus dari sudut pandangan orang yang create design; so kiranya lepas para designers dah buat design atau selesai edit sesuatu tu, diorang boleh guna mockup sebagai demo atau preview of the real thing. Mockup ni bagi 3D feel gitu.

Sebagai contohnya dengan tujuan promotion;
Mr. A dah buat design untuk sejenis barang ni, tapi barang yang sebenarnya belum siap lagi. Dalam masa yang sama Mr. A nak terus promote barang tadi sementara tunggu barang siap. Mr. A boleh tunjuk mockup version design dia pada potential customers, supaya customers tahu macam mana besarnya barang tu, atau rupa bentuk barang tu, atau macam mana rupa design tu bila ditempek/dicetak atas barang etc.

Ada pelbagai jenis mockup; buku, majalah, business card, portfolio, resume, tshirt, mugs etc.
Korang hanya perlu search di google.

Selalunya mockup diberi dalam bentuk PSD, tapi aku pernah jumpa dalam bentuk photoshop action.

Aku hanya akan tunjuk contoh untuk format PSD, maybe later aku tambah tutorial untuk format photoshop action. Ok so, setiap mockup ada layers yang berbeza, tapi ada basic persamaan:

Tutorial aku ni adalah tutorial label tag mockup. Aku download mockup ni di SINI.

Bentuk label tag tu adalah mockup yang aku katakan tu, design/tulisan tu aku yang edit.

Siri photoshop yang mana mana pun boleh, uh ikut mockup la kekadang diorang ada sertakan photoshop apa je yang boleh guna.

Aku skip step design. Makanya korang perlu ada satu design dah ready, tinggal nak letak dalam mockup je.

Step one:

Download mockup yang diperlukan. Search di google macam ni;
Business cards mockup, book cover mockup, portfolio mockup etc.
Bila nak guna mockup yang orang lain buat ni, pastikan korang baca guideline atau ReadMe yang selalu disertakan dalam downloaded file. Ada mockup yang perlu dibayar/dibeli, obviously download la yang free kalau tak nak bayar lol.

Selalunya diorang bagi dalam bentuk zip. Majoriti orang yang dah biasa design tahu benda ni, just in case ada yang confused macam mana; lepas download tu sila right click pada icon dan click extract here.

Open file psd tu macam biasa dalam photoshop. File > Open.
Contoh yang aku gunakan begini;

Click image untuk zoom.

Step two:

Option A: Cari layer yang dalam bentuk smart object. Korang boleh kenalpasti smart object bila korang nampak icon kecil berbentuk kertas/document di hujung layer tu.
Option B: Selalunya dalam mockup, diorang ada labelled layer yang berkenaan dengan 'your design'. Cari layer tu.

Double click pada thumbnail layer tersebut.

Selalunya akan muncul tab begini;

Tekan OK.

Kadang kadang akan keluar tab macam ni;

Sila keep layers.
(Terus Flatten pun takpe rasanya, entah, aku rasa takde masalah, tapi aku tak pernah cuba lagi).

Dan kadang kadang ada keluar tab macam ni;

Click OK. Yang atas ni, selalunya disebabkan korang tak ada atau tak download font yang digunakan dalam design contoh mockup tu, so layer font tak boleh dibaca. Tak ada apa yang perlu dirisaukan.

Akan keluar file/document yang korang akan guna. Aku label benda ni sebagai FileA.
Begini;

[1] Click pada icon mata, untuk tutup/hilangkan design yang sedia ada atau design contoh tu.

Step three:

Open file design korang, kalau korang belum open lagi.
[1] Click pada tab design korang.
[2] Drag design korang tersebut (atau boleh jugak drag layers design korang tu) ke dalam FileA.

Kalau lepas je korang drag masuk design tu, ada keluar tab macam bawah ni; tekan je OK.

Benda macam ni tak tentu, ikut file mockup yang korang download tu, kekadang ada keluar tab pelik pelik, so experiment la ye, click mana mana dan lihat hasilnya. Aku tunjuk basic je.

Ok.
Jadi begini;

[1] Right click pada mana mana layer yang ada.
[2] Flatten Image, supaya tinggal satu layer je.

Hidden layers tu adalah file yang aku minta korang hilangkan tadi tu. Maka bila keluar tab macam atas ni, click OK.

[1] Click File.
[2] Make sure click Save, dan bukan Save As.
[3] Dah saved, tutup je tab design tu.

Ok sekarang korang boleh check semula file mockup korang tadi;

Tadaa. Design dah masuk dalam mockup file.

Ulang steps yang aku dah tunjuk untuk benda yang ada banyak designs. Macam yang aku buat ni ada dua designs, satu depan label tag tu, satu di belakang. Tapi aku buat tutorial untuk satu je. Kalau korang nak tukar design, misalnya tersilap, just double click je sekali lagi (ulang proses yang sama dari awal).

Bila dah siap semua;
[1] Click File.
[2] Save As. Boleh save dalam bentuk png, jpeg, macam korang save gambar biasa.

Bila dah saved, tutup je tab mockup tadi tu, tapi bila nak tutup selalunya akan keluar begini;

Click No. Bila korang click No, file mockup yang korang download/guna tu akan kembali pada design contoh/asal. Kalau tekan Yes pun rasanya tak ada masalah, tapi aku tekan No.

Ok siap.

Somehow I think 2016 is the year of fighting, as in fighting for your rights, for what's important, fighting for the truth etc. Personally speaking la, it is strongly felt this year. They say 2016 is the year of realizing things, there's a truth to that too actually, in my case. A lot of shit has happened- is happening to people this year, people have been talking about it. Based on numerology, it's said this year is year number 9, the end of the circle. Next year, 2017 is year 1, the beginning of a new one. Not that I use numerology, I find it interesting to see the connection- or coincidence- depends on how you look at it.

I feel like I've been through worse - this is not me tempting fate, it's just my assessment - which is quite surprising to me, because this year so far has been... very not only emotionally but mentally challenging in itself. Imagine a box containing your world- everything that you have known, now shake and kick that freaking box.

Surprising nevertheless. Because, well, it's not that I don't feel anything, I do- but it's different. It's the laughter that tastes bitter at the end, you take a deep breath and shake your head, look up to the sky and empty your mind. Maybe I'm tired of the world's shit; if the world gives me shit, I'll do whatever I think is necessary. If crying is necessary at that time, then that's what I will do. Cry, scream, get a slice of homemade pizza and watch your reality crumbling down in front of you. The next step will be to choose between building things up again, or just sitting and staring at the pieces.

Maybe I'll sit down and watch, shake my head and say 'this world is so shitty, God' sounding surprised when I have known all along, and then get back up to build it again. For whatever reasons.

I'm messed up, but I'm still working, I don't know how exactly or for how long I will be, but for now I am.

Some people can feel so responsible for others' lives or how they lead their lives. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is how the standard, the highly regarded path goes;

Elementary, secondary, high school, college and graduate, get a real job, get married before thirty, have kids, work, have grandchildren, grow older. Maybe it's now considered common to experience a divorce in the middle of that.

So here's the thing.

They get worried when you do something else, even unrelated people who have nothing to do with you. They feel concerned when you do something that strays off The Path of How Things Should be Done, and they tell you that you shouldn't. Especially if you are a young adult, because what do you know? Let's be real, you probably don't know better anyway.

But do they?

This is what I believe:

I believe people have the right to explore. People have the right to move at their own pace. People have the right to live their personal life however they want as long as they don't directly hurt/harm/trouble others (harming themselves is debatable). They shouldn't be bogged down with this illusion that ultimate happiness can only be experienced through marriage or having kids, through settling down (traditionally speaking). There is no ultimate happiness probably. Happiness itself comes in different forms, and not one is better than the other.

It usually comes from a good place, but that doesn't mean it is not potentially damaging. It is a choice, but it is commonly being treated like a must. It makes people afraid to go off the path at any point because it is implied that it is wrong to do that. They'll be pestered with the standard and those questions like 'tak kahwin lagi?' and all that jazz. It breeds insecurity, low self-confidence, stress, sometimes recklessness and a string of bad choices.

Sometimes people don't do something because they don't want to. And no, there's probably nothing wrong with them. Even if there is, it is probably none of our business.

There is no one correct way to live.

Lately I've been feeling agitated, internally restless? Maybe because I caught myself slipping more than usual.

My standard can get too high sometimes, when I'm not careful. When you know and understand it as much as you can, the fact later you still find yourself messing it up in practical experience can be irritating. It's hard not to. I think the tendency of being studious can delude me into thinking I can manage the actual thing well right away just because I understand it well theoretically.

I, myself cant deny there's a kind of understanding that can only be gained through practice. The action of fine-tuning, improving, itself comes after the awareness and acknowledgement of hard edges and holes. You can't improve on something you don't know needs improving. Slip-ups alert you to that need, and it happens only when you get up and try. Muscle memory, instinct, intuition, are all honed by practice, repetition, habit. Humans are cerebral beings indeed, but we still belong to the animal category. The only problem seems to be the difficulty in swallowing the reality that you make mistakes, that you mess up, that it is still a long way to go. It's the impatience stems from an insistent ambition.

I've just realized how unrealistic my expectation was. Developing a skill, especially one that will definitely rub against my own natural preference requires time, effort and patience. Instead of beating myself up because I couldn't meet my own unrealistic expectation in a few tries, I should be patient with it. Remember that it's not a flaw and I'm not here to erase it all away, I'm here to build on it.

If I have to search for something good, I think I should acknowledge that little click inside my head whenever I realize that I'm contradicting myself, proposing a faulty argument, being defensive, being blatantly biased, when my ego is speaking.

I just want to push it a little further, a little earlier, along with a better reception and a better response.

I wonder who else is doing this. I wonder if they feel tired. I wonder if they find their struggles galling too. I wonder if they too feel like giving up, and I wonder if they too know that giving yourself up is not an option.

Photoshop : Bubble Dialogue

something that matters

update

raw #3

update

2016

#it eats itself: untitled

white dress: questions I

white dress: ilvermorny and hogwarts houses

it eats itself: when i write about writing

G.Tutorial : Blend Poster [Bright Background]

#it eats itself: in between

Tutorial : Simple Blend Poster i

Tutorial : How to find HQ photos

Photoshop : Color Balance

#it eats itself: where's the line

#tutorials: Edit/guna mockup

white dress: 2016

it eats itself: the strays, the rebels, those who are lost

white dress: roadblock