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<\/a>It is literally true that there are that many different colors going on in Squib’s fur, but the software can’t account for the fact that the human eye perceives her as a mostly black cat. (Happens all the time when you use the flash on your camera – your picture has more detail than you can see. Makes telescopes work, too. Not so good for portraits.)<\/p>\nHence my restart before, where I revised the pattern to get a better balance between detail and perception. Worked great until I got to the whiskers.<\/p>\n
Monday: whiskers. First three colors I tried completely vanished into the background. Next couple of colors contrasted nicely, but I couldn’t tell the difference between facial-detail-I’d-left-on-in-first-revision and whisker. After much testing, much unweaving and much frustration, I used the hex version of DB507. It’s an odd color for me — pink with 24kt gold iris — but it’s not overwhelmingly pink, and the differences due to the slight changes in color and cut work nicely. That gets me to Monday night.<\/p>\n
I spent the rest of the week – ugh – weaving and unweaving to try to get Squib’s face right. I have been steadily reducing the amount of detail and darkening the bead colors, but I finally decided last night that I needed to go back and mostly-manually redraw Squib’s face the way I did below her chin.<\/p>\n
Here’s the last revision before I decided to completely redraw her face – that appalling orange color is how BCP displays DB507 — no clue why.<\/p>\n
The tech problem: my monitor was dying, and I didn’t know it until it was totally dead. Until Thursday, it was pushing everything it displayed to the red end of the spectrum, so what I was seeing in the software and what the software thought it was showing were much much different than usual (which is saying a lot). Thursday night the monitor gave it up and David let me use one of his (computer artists have lots of monitors), so it wasn’t truly until Friday that I was able to work on the design and get consistent results.<\/p>\n I think I’ve figured out how to revamp the facial detail. Once that’s done it will only take a day or two to finish the portrait, and then I can get back to the Christmas present I’m working on, and “Hope” (the cardinal).<\/p>\n Word for the week: argh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My week has been filled with much activity and very little progress. [There was a technology problem developing which gets a chunk of blame but the other half is\/was me fiddling with the pattern. See below.] I have set up my own palette for Bead Creator Pro that avoids the issues I had with too … Continue reading WeaveWith Week 3: Maybe I should have made a bracelet<\/span> <\/a>[Revision 1 worked great for the body but wasn’t strict enough for the face.] I’m still working on that today.<\/p>\n