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Re: Preview of My Castleworld Site
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.space
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Sun, 28 May 2000 01:35:33 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Pearson Castner writes:
> > Now tell us what tool you used for the torso =)
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> I made several Blacktron I imposters (about 20)with spare elements from other
> minis, and by brassoing off the print of old, faded, or misprinted black mini
> torsos and replacing the erased print with a sticker I made from a scanned
> Blacktron I mini torso. I printed the traditional Blacktron I pattern out
> with an inkjet printer onto floppy diskette labels by Avery (they have an
> adhesive backing). After scanning a real Blacktron I mini and an imposter
> mini side by side, I sent the resulting and unretouched image out to several
> people -- some of whom thought the imposter was the original and real thing.
> This confusion on the part of others fueled my particular madness.
>
> Lady Blacktron was made the same way except that I played with the torso
> design for about an hour one morning to blend elements of the traditional
> castle maiden torso with elements of the Blacktron I torso design. There are
> two version of the Lady Blacktron torso, one with greyed contour space on
> either side of the torso and one with only a thin grey line indicating the
> torso's contour and then more black filling the space beyond that.
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> Cheap process except for the time brassoing the torsos, scanning, manipulating
> the images, and printing. Now if I could figure out how to print pure yellow
> ink from my horrible Lexmark 3200. But I guess I can't complain about a $60
> color printer...still, there must be a way to make it print its basic cmyk
> colors without a dithering pattern.
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> The software I am using is Photoshop 5 and MS Publisher (an older version). I
> don't know why, but Publisher prints really nicely whereas Photoshop doesn't
> do nearly as well. I have no idea why this should be so, and I have tried all
> manner of different print settings.
>
> -- Richard
Finally! Someone sees the potential in printing your own torsos!! What do you
print on to? I've experimented with sticker labels (not glossy enuf) and now
as soon as I get a better printer, I'm gonna try it with Crak'n peel Plus.
<<KM>>
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