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Re: New mosaic: Portrait of 3 boys
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lugnet.build.mosaic
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Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:24:15 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mosaic, Jason Spears wrote:
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Nicely done in such a small sapce. Did you use the
Lugnet Mosaic Maker, or a program of your
own devise? In this pic, it looks like you have only specific colors being shown on your laptop.
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Well, since I have a background as a graphic artist, I actually use Photoshop to
mess with the color balance, brightness, & contrast, as well as to reduce the
color count and fine-tune the diffusion. I then make each color a Photoshop
“layer” that I can toggle on & off independently from the others (or make semi
transparent) as I work.
This works for studs-out mosaics, since a square pixel equates to the square top
of a LEGO 1x1. The newer version of Photoshop (CS) supports “non square
pixels”, which means you could use this same technique for studs-up mosaics. (I
don’t have CS yet, although this one feature would make it worth the upgrade.)
:)
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Also can you give some details on your storage system
behind you? Looks
like the individual bins can be moved off the wall to where ever you are
building? That’s pretty cool.
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Yes, that’s exactly right. It’s the
FRAMAT system of bins from IKEA.
The system is designed for over-the-kitchen sink. You mount a 3 or 4 foot metal
rail onto the wall on small blocks (included), which holds the rail about an
inch away from the wall. Then the buckets just hook onto the rails.
Here’s a picture of
the system from someone else’s web site. I bought out the entire Houston
IKEA’s supply of these so I could arrange my wall as a grid of buckets, by size
& by color.
There are two sizes of buckets ... the round ones will hold about 1000 1x1s (500
1x2s, etc) and are $1 each. The larger ones are rectangular, and hold about 2
or 2.5 times the volume. They have a mesh bottom (designed for wet things to
drain?) So they’re best for larger bricks. I use them for 1x4s and 2x4s.
The downside of this system is that it takes up a lot of space. Also, the bins
themselves are (relatively) small if you have a lot of parts; I have to keep
“overflow” bins (blue tubs) stacked off in the back of the room.
Sean
http://www.mocpages.com/home.php/1
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 | | Re: New mosaic: Portrait of 3 boys
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| (...) Interesting. I don't have that background, but I may have to mess around in PSP and see what I can accomplish. (...) That's a neat setup. (...) Hmm, I typically end up dragging the blue bins off the shelf and setting them around me at my build (...) (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.storage, FTX)
| | | Re: New mosaic: Portrait of 3 boys
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| (...) I can't toggle colour layers on & off (I don't really need that), but I'm sure you can do the same thing for studs-up mosaics. You may have noticed my unglued, studs-up, one-stud-wide (URL) 42 mosaic>. As I am not a real programmer I have to (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| (...) Nicely done in such a small sapce. Did you use the (URL) Lugnet Mosaic Maker>, or a program of your own devise? In this (URL), it looks like you have only specific colors being shown on your laptop. Also can you give some details on your (...) (20 years ago, 14-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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