20 April 2006 @ 02:25 am
An Inevitability.  
Ahahahaha.

Okay, so [livejournal.com profile] vermachtnis wasn't kidding when she said that custom mood themes were a bitch and a half to make (something which, incidentally, seems to be largely the fault of the custom mood theme editor because actually making the icons is far more time-consuming than it is complicated). But I must admit that now I've got the thing done, or near enough as to make it usable anyway, I'm pretty pleased with it. Okay. I'm very pleased with it. Fear my fangirlishness!

One of the things that does please me is I've done the lot with grayscale images.

I'm now screwed. I have to keep this red and gray journal layout, because if I don't I have to remake all my mood icons. Um, no, actually. It took long enough to do this lot. I'm not changing them.

I've made sixty-odd mood icons for this set (I think I have far too many Ken pictures. On the other hand, I don't think I have anywhere near enough Ken pictures) and still can't escape the feeling that I need to add a few more. It's going to have to wait a bit, though, because I don't have the time or the patience to make any more right now. Maybe I'll finish them up tomorrow. I need to scrounge up more 'tired' images, but do you know how goddamn hard it is to find images containing Tired!Ken? Or Depressed!Ken, for that matter? HomicidallyEnraged!Ken, now that's easy...

Incidentally: actually, I am sick. I have a sore throat and a cough that disturbs the peace and as for the rest of it, you'd probably rather not know. I had to call in sick yesterday, again. I'd feel worse about this if the practice educator hadn't been losing her voice, my mentor hadn't phoned in sick (even if she later showed up) and another student nurse been coming down with most likely the exact same thing.

Oh, and my overdraft hates me. I'm going to starve for a month in the hope of clearing some of it.

That's all the news that's fit to tell. Going to go do badfics post now and smirk because I have a mood icon set. Not that the badfics journal will have it, but you know what I mean. It's not my fault Ken is pretty.
 
 
Current Music: toki ni ai wa - masami okui
Current Mood: peaceful
 
 
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[identity profile] quentin-w.livejournal.com on April 20th, 2006 03:10 am (UTC)
Ohh i hope you feel better! :DD Hehe you can never have enough pictures of your favorite person now can you? I don't think i'll ever have enough pictures..either.
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2006 02:01 am (UTC)
I have this horrible feeling that you're absolutely correct. I have far too many pictures of Ken from the point of view of a sane, sensible non-fangirl. From my perspective, I do not have anywhere near enough Ken pictures and am in urgent and dire need of many, many more. Preferably ones where he's in his pajamas, because that's just cute.

I hope I feel better soon too. Boo. I don't like being sick.

And I have 'Into your heart' running through my head. I think I've done it in honor of your icon. God damn you, Koda Kumi, why must your songs be so catchy? I'd hate you if I didn't love you so much for it.
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[identity profile] anatari.livejournal.com on April 20th, 2006 03:49 am (UTC)
You can never have too many pictures of Ken.

Ever.

Don't suppose I could steal some? ^_^;

I hope you feel better!
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2006 01:47 am (UTC)
I'm really hoping that's discovered to be the case because I now have something like a hundred random scans from equally random sources (mainly An Assassin and White Shaman and gag doujinshi) sat on my hard drive in my main and very messy Weiss pictures folder thingy, and that's without counting the color pictures and all the other random artwork I saved just because Ken looked cute in it.

... and if you're after stealing some, um, what kind of stuff are you after? What do you have already? I'd be glad to shove some in a .zip folder and email them to you, but I don't want to be telling you too much you already know (aside from the bit where Ken is cute, of course). I've got far too much random for my sanity, but I'm having fun here, damn it.
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[identity profile] anatari.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2006 01:48 pm (UTC)
I have.... very very little on this computer, actually. And it makes me sad. Pretty much just the AAWS scans and a few scattered official images of dubious quality.
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[identity profile] vermachtnis.livejournal.com on April 20th, 2006 05:29 am (UTC)
Nope, wasn't kidding at all. I did almost all of the Ginji icons for my set, and then got sick of doing them, so once I get to moods that start with the letter 'T,' quite a few of them are repeats. They fit, but they're repeats, and I keep promising myself I'll go back and fix them, but like that's going to ever happen.

They're so cute, though! I like the grayscale-ness. I had actually been thinking about doing a grayscale set myself, simply because I think gray matches mostly everything, and I'm such a flaky flake with my layout, the colors are always changing.

I hope you feel better! I'm actually feeling like I might be getting sick myself, once again leading me to the conclusion that the Internet spreads sickness.

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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2006 01:42 am (UTC)
I didn't think you were kidding me. God damn, that mood editor. Gave me gray hairs just trying to figure it out. It wouldn't have taken half as long to upload the damned thing if the page hadn't taken about a million years to load up every time I changed something. And the images only showed up every so often. And I kept thinking it was about to make my computer crash. I think I'm going to be sticking with this mood theme for a very, very long time and would be doing so even if it wasn't a Ken theme of joy and excessive fangirl-type love.

I'd like to have unique images for every mood, but I don't have quite enough variety where my Ken pictures are concerned (I have 80-odd unique icon images now, which is more than most of the general-use mood icon themes have). Ken being Ken, it's far easier for me to find pictures where he's pissy or cheerful than it is to get decent ones where he's angsting or generally just being tired. He's Ken. It's not his fault.

I'll fix them later. She says. Like when I have more Ken pictures.

I'm glad you think they're cute, though. Since you are my personal benchmark when it comes to All Things Graphical being as you're better than I am and can use Photoshop. But yeah. I like them. I can't think why I've run scared from mood themes for so long when damn, they're cute. I'm glad I managed to get them all in grayscale, though, because having some in grayscale and some in color would just have annoyed me (besides, this way they kind-of go with my gray-and-red layout). I like your mood icons, though. And your layouts.

Have you done two mood icon sets now? I'm impressed. That's dedication. I'm probably never going to change this again...

Whoa, is everyone getting sick at the moment? I'm feeling like there's some kind of conspiracy going on. My sickness is now in the stage where it has stolen my voice almost completely. If I don't talk for hours I sound almost normal at first, but all I have to do is talk for about thirty seconds to sound all croaky and rusty like my throat is seizing up and is in dire need of oiling. I've never actually lost my voice like this before, so it startles me a bit. I can't actually talk. And when I try, I seem to start coughing.

I should have called in sick to work again for tomorrow, but how the Hell can I call in sick when I can't talk worth shit? Calling work is bad enough without my calling in just to croak at people.
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[identity profile] vermachtnis.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2006 07:47 pm (UTC)
I know. Oh man, I know. I figured it out the first time I made a mood theme, and it still took frickin' forever and a half. And then, when I went in to do the Ginji one, well... it wouldn't let me save it and edit it later. So I was working on it, and got about halfway done, and then thought I'd save it and finish it up a little later, but after I saved it... no editing. I can go back and edit them all now, of course, but I couldn't then. So I had to start a new one and do it all again, but when I finished and saved, only a third of the pictures showed up. So I started a new one. And when I finally did get it all finished and all showing up, it wouldn't let me change my mood theme until several hours later. I was very. Not. Happy.

So yeah, it'll probably be a long time before I do a ew one too. This one's actually got about 120 unique images, which is a lot more than my first one had, which was about 50. Luckily, Ginji's really great for a mood theme, since he goes through a huge range of emotions and displays them very obviously. Although I do seem to have a surplus of images of him looking angry/miffed/annoyed, simply because I love him when he's angry.

I definitely think they're cute. And the more I look at them, the more I want to do a grayscale set. No no no, must not give in. Must work on other things.

[And I'm totally completely flattered that you consider me a benchmark for graphics, by the way.]

Erk. I hope I don't get that sick. I've done the lost-voice thing several times already this school year, and I'd really prefer to not do it again. Luckily for me, my day-to-day activities don't really require much talking, so I could make it through without the actual need for my voice. That said, you've got my sympathies. I hope you feel better!
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[identity profile] goddess-triad.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2006 12:04 am (UTC)
Looks like the sore throat and the cold is rampant anywhere. I'm sick with it back here as well. It hurts to talk, laugh and eat. It's not getting any better either, I've got no voice.

Feel better, dear. Hugs to you!
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2006 01:55 am (UTC)
That's weird. It seems like everyone I know and a fair few I don't is getting sick at the moment, and with the exact same thing I've got. I've got the sore throat, cold, loss of voice to the extent that I can hardly talk thing as well. And I'm barely eating because whenever I try I start feeling sick and only manage to keep my food down by dint of sitting very still and not trying to eat too much. Or even anything really. I hope you get better soon, too, because this cold sucks.

Now I'm going to have to go to bed, because it's late here and I feel cruddy and I have a headache on top of everything else. I only came down to edit my mood theme a bit more and post to [livejournal.com profile] weiss_badfics, but then I started answering comments...
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