{"id":367,"date":"2009-01-16T23:32:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2009-01-16T23:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T07:35:05","slug":"digital-dandruff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/digital-dandruff\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; digital dandruff &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2009_01_16_a.jpg\" title=\"... digital dandruff ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Kerr has sent me a bunch of drawings over the last month or so.  I have to &#8220;cut them out&#8221; and create a transparency for the background in preparation to drop them into the &#8220;Demons to Diamonds&#8221; music video.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using Photoshop, which has the convenient &#8220;Magic Wand&#8221; tool for selecting (and in this case removing) parts of the image.  Brad is drawing the images the old fashioned way &#8230; on paper &#8230; and sending me scanned images.  The textured surface of the paper shows up in the scan and, unless I tweak my &#8220;Magic Wand&#8221;, it creates some serious digital dandruff as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Photoshop CS3 allows you to adjust the selection area and alter the way the &#8220;Magic Wand&#8221; traces its path.  Each image requires a little attention to set the parameters just right.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2009_01_16_b.jpg\" title=\"... better ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, I spent some time today cutting out loads of characters.  It&#8217;s actually pretty fun to go in and clean up the edges and get them ready to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Kerr has sent me a bunch of drawings over the last month or so. I have to &#8220;cut them out&#8221; and create a transparency for the background in preparation to drop them into the &#8220;Demons to Diamonds&#8221; music video. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/digital-dandruff\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; digital dandruff &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[175,203,484],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits-solo-record","category-movies","tag-bits","tag-demons-to-diamonds","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}