Aug 24, 2010 8:20 AM
Past Profiles
Well, I've made a couple of profiles for myself, and since I always feel sorry for the profile that has to leave once a new one is put up, I decided to leave them online, but in a blog post ^^
I've kept all the profiles here with all the slices, since it's just so much easier to put the codes in that way (just copy from the current profile section and paste it in, lol) so you'll be able to go onto all of the links, but keep in mind that it also means that there is a big bunch of pictures which have to load, so it might take a bit of time ^^
Profile V0: No Theme
Well, it's what I had before designing an actual profile in photoshop, hence the name "Version Zero".
I had all of my cards and claims and everything on the page, but right before putting up my first profile, I transfered everything to blogs and put "moved to blog" messages in their places.
So here is the version zero profile:
Profile V1.0: General Anime
Well, I spent quite a bit of time on this profile. It actually started as a competition with DominateOne on who could make the longer profile, which is why there are so many plates.
Unfortunately, the videos which I used got deleted from youtube, so you can't watch them, but if you still want to know what songs those were you can ask me ^^
Profile V6.0: Kuroshitsuji
Yeah I know, you got it right, I posted my 6th profile right after the first, skipping versions 2, 3, 4 and 5. I have them all sliced an linked actually, but this one was posted earlier for a special reason.
I was looking through Kuroshitsuji pictures to fill up my "database", and amongst the huge load of new pictures from the second season, and ones I haven't seen before from the first, I came across this fine drawing on one of the pages (I can't remember which one it was, there were so many pictures I went through). I loved this picture immediately, and decided to do something with it, and ended up with this profile.
In the original picture, there's also Claude dancing with Alois, but I cut them out because, well, I was more into the couple on the edge of the cliff, I guess. Also, in the original, there is just the couples dancing - there were no "shadows" of them on there. I liked the idea of the possibility if Sebastian would let go, and so added the 'falling' Ciel, and tried making it more ghostly. Then I thought that Sebastian should have a "ghost" as well, to make the picture a bit clearer.(Okay, I know I'm a sadist, but I got the idea of a falling Ciel by accident while looking for what could be done with the picture, ok?)
The result is down here:
Profile V11.0
Well, here we go again with another gap in the numbers, but at this point I've decided that I will have all of my already-made profiles have a turn to be online for a while. I just still need to decide how long before I change theme again :P
Anyways, back to this profile. I was actually going to change my profile theme a bit later, but then I realized it was the week of Halloween soon, so I just went on to a searching spree for Halloween-related pictures (which I now realize was a bit pointless since I only used about 6 of them this time around... Oh well, maybe next year? :P ).
But yeah, I got this profile done in record time compared to all the previous one (except for one, but it'll have it's turn here anyways). I used only one picture for it, but spent quite a while on it adjusting the colors of the girl's dress, since it was purple, and then her eyes which were blue, which then made the pumpkin tomato-red. Honestly I don't know how I managed to get the color's right eventually, but then all I had to do was paste it in onto the already made background of the layout. The text was a pain since no matter what I did with it I still couldn't satisfy myself, but once again, through trial and error, got something I was content with.
Seems like a lot of work, huh? Well, it's still done in record time:
Profile V4.0: Allen Walker
So finally I posted something I had made before. I quite liked this profile, despite how simple it is. Can't remember how long it took me to make it, since it was so long ago, but I do remember that cutting Allen out was a pain in the butt, since I was still new to vectors. Who knows, though, maybe if I try it again today it'll be as much as a pain as before. It's the pen tool in photoshop we're talking about here after all.
In any case, I was kind of playing around, with fonts and styles, but then when I got Allen and the title in place, with this huge white gap on the side I realized it would look too cramped if I put all the links there. And then I got this crazy idea which I think I remembered from an anime opening or something of the sort, but I suddenly went off looking for ways to make it so that there was the cross hanging from chains. The image filled my mind, so I went off with it, (more work for me, yay!). And since it looked so lonely I thought of having some smaller crosses with the links to my blog posts on them. In the end, the smaller crossed wouldn't work out the way I wanted, and erasing the middles would take to much time so I (again, found more work) drew a mini-cross which I then copied for each of the links. By the time I got to the chains I didn't feel like drawing them, so I just downloaded some templates from the net and used those.
This one went through a couple of re-makes. first, I kept changing what was written next to Allen (and as soon as I posted it online I got the urge to change it yet again - that's how much I kept changing them). Then came the links themselves, since when I made it the first-time around I didn't have any adoptables, so there were 2 "cards" links. I had to change that when I got a few new pets :/ . Finally, before uploading, I changed the slices a bit, and don't even ask why - I'm still trying to figure out why myself.
Anyways, here's the profile (the finally result I quite like, despite the work):
Prifile V12.0: Winter (Soul Eater)
Well, this onewas also done in a kinda speedy way, like the valentine's one. I kept to the same basic idea for the layout. The special thing for me about this one was that I tried to make everything 'in motion', so I used a blur on the images, to get a sence of the motion. I had to get rid of the blur for the black stuff around Maka and Soul, since it just looked scary otherwise.
Also, I wanted to somehow make the message look wonky, but at the same time cute, and through an accident got the "dots" going from one thing to another. I think I might have overdone it for the links, tho >.<
The background was hard for me, since I liked the polka-dots but there wasn't a color I liked, and I didn't like any of the other patterns. In the end I use green and changed it's hue to blue. I also blurred it a bit, just to see what it would look like. I liked it, and kept it that way.
For the "shadows" of the characters, I wanted to have one, since without them the layout looked really empty. But a solid color wasn't to my liking, and neither was a graidient. So I found this really nice, small light blue pattern which I tried and played around with a bit, and got something I liked. I then added a white glow to it and it looked perfect :)
Profile V8: Fruits Basket
Well, this one didn't stay online for a long time, sincei made the B-day one pretty soon afterwards. I might put it upagain in the future, since I really like it ^^
For this one I did a funny thing for the background - I used the same pattern but chaged it's colors, and ended up with all the lined changing colors as they go! XD (not funny? oh well, at least I tried *shrug*)
I'd just finished reading the manga when I made it, I really wanted to make something for the series, since it really moved me. It's now my favorite manga.
I had the Cat and Rat as the main pictures, but this time I also put some "notes" about myself. I kinda messed up the grammar in one of them, but hey, nobody's perfect, so why sohuld I be?
It looked kinda emplty, so I drew some of the "riceballs" from the manga, since I still remembered the quote "becasue the riceball does not belong in a fruits basket". Now I think about it, I kept seeing the same image come back in the manga. And come on, the main chara's chibi drawing is a riceball!
In the end I added one extra bit, and that was the little picture of the Cat, Rat and Riceball in the bottom-right corner of the profile. I think i'll print out that small pic and put it in mu wallet, or paste iton my door locker. It's so sweet X3
Profile V13.0 B-day (Winry x Ed)
Well, this one was done even fasterthan the Halloween one, lol. I used and existing picture, down to the point of keeping the background pattern. I just repeatedthe pattern,and chse one of the colors for the text, and put everything in order. The slicing wasn't too hard either. Justa simpleand clean profile. I love the picture tho:
Profile V 5.0 Elric Brothers
Well, back to filling in the gap! This profile really brings back memories. I spent ages on trying to get the colors of the 'strips' right, because the original patterns I used were really pright, but I wanted an "old and faded out" effect. I got it once, but then only afte flattenig the layers, and i then wanted to ad a texture to is, so I made a duplicate, saved it, and went back to pretty much the beginning and tried to get the same effect again.
Stuff like this kept happening to me with this one, so by the end I have a good 6 files on all of which I had dome some work, saved, and then went back again to compare the results. I never did get that effect right again, but I figure this was close enough.
It took daysof nonstop work to finish, and when I did, I noticed one fatal mistake - the slicing. Come on. Try to divide this picture under the spoiler into the slices so that every link has it's own box. You see what I mean? They all get into each other's ways. But I wasn't going to give up for something like that. I had thin strip over thin strip, then divided those thin strips agian to make sure one link wouldn't overlap over the other. Don't get it? well, whatever. I never was too good at explaining myself. Basically, I had over 50 slices for this picture. It looked crazy, even for me, so I re-did the thing again and managed with 30. It's still a huge number for just 9 links.
Profile V10.2 Writing
Well, this one I spent quite a bit of time revisiting. I loved the image used from the first moment I laid my eyes on it. I added a border, and tried to make the whole shape take that border's shape as well. It looked terrible that way, so I just rounded the edges after that.
This is my first work with color adjustments and filters, when I knew what they were and how to use them (the previopus ones were pretty much experimenting, but on this one I had a better idea of what I could do).
I added a bit of a blur to the whole picture, except for the girl's face and her hand, since the short poem I put up is to do with writing. Getting the text in was a lot of work too, since I wanted it to bevivisble but not stand out in any way. Originally I wanted it to be 'part of the picture', and while that didn't happen, I still really like the result.
Well, actually this was profile V10 I think, but for some reason it ended up being 12... now I just have to find what the 10th and 11th ones are then...
Profile V16.0 Yasuri Shichika
Well, this one stayed up for wuite some time! This one was fun to make, particularly the links, since it's the firsttime (when it comes to slicing the image) that all of the links came before the 'big image'. As for the editing, it was mostly the text. THe original image is practically the same, I only changed some of the levels and color settings.
Profile V2.1 Hatsune Miku
Back to filling numbers again! And yes, the 2.1 means it's been edited ^__^; This is one of the first profiles I've made, and I have to say I'm surprised I didn't use it for such a long time. I guess I had to wake up that Miku fan in me, lol. Eather way, the amount of editing on this image is also pretty much minimal, I don't think I even played arounf with the original image at all. The original text, however, wasn't the quote I hat, but an actuall good legnth of some mumbo-jumbo I came up with when I made it. I just had to change it though, because I came across the quote a while later and it seemed to fit perfectly... and I didn't like that bit of mumbo-jumbo anyways.
Profile V15.0 Panda
I think the girl looks like she could be Miku? Anyhow, this is a nice profile, with a cute picture :D
Profile V?.?
Since it's the profile that is currently on my page, I won't post it here :P
I've kept all the profiles here with all the slices, since it's just so much easier to put the codes in that way (just copy from the current profile section and paste it in, lol) so you'll be able to go onto all of the links, but keep in mind that it also means that there is a big bunch of pictures which have to load, so it might take a bit of time ^^
Profile V0: No Theme
Well, it's what I had before designing an actual profile in photoshop, hence the name "Version Zero".
I had all of my cards and claims and everything on the page, but right before putting up my first profile, I transfered everything to blogs and put "moved to blog" messages in their places.
So here is the version zero profile:
Profile V1.0: General Anime
Well, I spent quite a bit of time on this profile. It actually started as a competition with DominateOne on who could make the longer profile, which is why there are so many plates.
Unfortunately, the videos which I used got deleted from youtube, so you can't watch them, but if you still want to know what songs those were you can ask me ^^
Profile V6.0: Kuroshitsuji
Yeah I know, you got it right, I posted my 6th profile right after the first, skipping versions 2, 3, 4 and 5. I have them all sliced an linked actually, but this one was posted earlier for a special reason.
I was looking through Kuroshitsuji pictures to fill up my "database", and amongst the huge load of new pictures from the second season, and ones I haven't seen before from the first, I came across this fine drawing on one of the pages (I can't remember which one it was, there were so many pictures I went through). I loved this picture immediately, and decided to do something with it, and ended up with this profile.
In the original picture, there's also Claude dancing with Alois, but I cut them out because, well, I was more into the couple on the edge of the cliff, I guess. Also, in the original, there is just the couples dancing - there were no "shadows" of them on there. I liked the idea of the possibility if Sebastian would let go, and so added the 'falling' Ciel, and tried making it more ghostly. Then I thought that Sebastian should have a "ghost" as well, to make the picture a bit clearer.(Okay, I know I'm a sadist, but I got the idea of a falling Ciel by accident while looking for what could be done with the picture, ok?)
The result is down here:
Profile V11.0
Well, here we go again with another gap in the numbers, but at this point I've decided that I will have all of my already-made profiles have a turn to be online for a while. I just still need to decide how long before I change theme again :P
Anyways, back to this profile. I was actually going to change my profile theme a bit later, but then I realized it was the week of Halloween soon, so I just went on to a searching spree for Halloween-related pictures (which I now realize was a bit pointless since I only used about 6 of them this time around... Oh well, maybe next year? :P ).
But yeah, I got this profile done in record time compared to all the previous one (except for one, but it'll have it's turn here anyways). I used only one picture for it, but spent quite a while on it adjusting the colors of the girl's dress, since it was purple, and then her eyes which were blue, which then made the pumpkin tomato-red. Honestly I don't know how I managed to get the color's right eventually, but then all I had to do was paste it in onto the already made background of the layout. The text was a pain since no matter what I did with it I still couldn't satisfy myself, but once again, through trial and error, got something I was content with.
Seems like a lot of work, huh? Well, it's still done in record time:
Profile V4.0: Allen Walker
So finally I posted something I had made before. I quite liked this profile, despite how simple it is. Can't remember how long it took me to make it, since it was so long ago, but I do remember that cutting Allen out was a pain in the butt, since I was still new to vectors. Who knows, though, maybe if I try it again today it'll be as much as a pain as before. It's the pen tool in photoshop we're talking about here after all.
In any case, I was kind of playing around, with fonts and styles, but then when I got Allen and the title in place, with this huge white gap on the side I realized it would look too cramped if I put all the links there. And then I got this crazy idea which I think I remembered from an anime opening or something of the sort, but I suddenly went off looking for ways to make it so that there was the cross hanging from chains. The image filled my mind, so I went off with it, (more work for me, yay!). And since it looked so lonely I thought of having some smaller crosses with the links to my blog posts on them. In the end, the smaller crossed wouldn't work out the way I wanted, and erasing the middles would take to much time so I (again, found more work) drew a mini-cross which I then copied for each of the links. By the time I got to the chains I didn't feel like drawing them, so I just downloaded some templates from the net and used those.
This one went through a couple of re-makes. first, I kept changing what was written next to Allen (and as soon as I posted it online I got the urge to change it yet again - that's how much I kept changing them). Then came the links themselves, since when I made it the first-time around I didn't have any adoptables, so there were 2 "cards" links. I had to change that when I got a few new pets :/ . Finally, before uploading, I changed the slices a bit, and don't even ask why - I'm still trying to figure out why myself.
Anyways, here's the profile (the finally result I quite like, despite the work):
Prifile V12.0: Winter (Soul Eater)
Well, this onewas also done in a kinda speedy way, like the valentine's one. I kept to the same basic idea for the layout. The special thing for me about this one was that I tried to make everything 'in motion', so I used a blur on the images, to get a sence of the motion. I had to get rid of the blur for the black stuff around Maka and Soul, since it just looked scary otherwise.
Also, I wanted to somehow make the message look wonky, but at the same time cute, and through an accident got the "dots" going from one thing to another. I think I might have overdone it for the links, tho >.<
The background was hard for me, since I liked the polka-dots but there wasn't a color I liked, and I didn't like any of the other patterns. In the end I use green and changed it's hue to blue. I also blurred it a bit, just to see what it would look like. I liked it, and kept it that way.
For the "shadows" of the characters, I wanted to have one, since without them the layout looked really empty. But a solid color wasn't to my liking, and neither was a graidient. So I found this really nice, small light blue pattern which I tried and played around with a bit, and got something I liked. I then added a white glow to it and it looked perfect :)
Profile V8: Fruits Basket
Well, this one didn't stay online for a long time, sincei made the B-day one pretty soon afterwards. I might put it upagain in the future, since I really like it ^^
For this one I did a funny thing for the background - I used the same pattern but chaged it's colors, and ended up with all the lined changing colors as they go! XD (not funny? oh well, at least I tried *shrug*)
I'd just finished reading the manga when I made it, I really wanted to make something for the series, since it really moved me. It's now my favorite manga.
I had the Cat and Rat as the main pictures, but this time I also put some "notes" about myself. I kinda messed up the grammar in one of them, but hey, nobody's perfect, so why sohuld I be?
It looked kinda emplty, so I drew some of the "riceballs" from the manga, since I still remembered the quote "becasue the riceball does not belong in a fruits basket". Now I think about it, I kept seeing the same image come back in the manga. And come on, the main chara's chibi drawing is a riceball!
In the end I added one extra bit, and that was the little picture of the Cat, Rat and Riceball in the bottom-right corner of the profile. I think i'll print out that small pic and put it in mu wallet, or paste iton my door locker. It's so sweet X3
Profile V13.0 B-day (Winry x Ed)
Well, this one was done even fasterthan the Halloween one, lol. I used and existing picture, down to the point of keeping the background pattern. I just repeatedthe pattern,and chse one of the colors for the text, and put everything in order. The slicing wasn't too hard either. Justa simpleand clean profile. I love the picture tho:
Profile V 5.0 Elric Brothers
Well, back to filling in the gap! This profile really brings back memories. I spent ages on trying to get the colors of the 'strips' right, because the original patterns I used were really pright, but I wanted an "old and faded out" effect. I got it once, but then only afte flattenig the layers, and i then wanted to ad a texture to is, so I made a duplicate, saved it, and went back to pretty much the beginning and tried to get the same effect again.
Stuff like this kept happening to me with this one, so by the end I have a good 6 files on all of which I had dome some work, saved, and then went back again to compare the results. I never did get that effect right again, but I figure this was close enough.
It took daysof nonstop work to finish, and when I did, I noticed one fatal mistake - the slicing. Come on. Try to divide this picture under the spoiler into the slices so that every link has it's own box. You see what I mean? They all get into each other's ways. But I wasn't going to give up for something like that. I had thin strip over thin strip, then divided those thin strips agian to make sure one link wouldn't overlap over the other. Don't get it? well, whatever. I never was too good at explaining myself. Basically, I had over 50 slices for this picture. It looked crazy, even for me, so I re-did the thing again and managed with 30. It's still a huge number for just 9 links.
Profile V10.2 Writing
Well, this one I spent quite a bit of time revisiting. I loved the image used from the first moment I laid my eyes on it. I added a border, and tried to make the whole shape take that border's shape as well. It looked terrible that way, so I just rounded the edges after that.
This is my first work with color adjustments and filters, when I knew what they were and how to use them (the previopus ones were pretty much experimenting, but on this one I had a better idea of what I could do).
I added a bit of a blur to the whole picture, except for the girl's face and her hand, since the short poem I put up is to do with writing. Getting the text in was a lot of work too, since I wanted it to bevivisble but not stand out in any way. Originally I wanted it to be 'part of the picture', and while that didn't happen, I still really like the result.
Well, actually this was profile V10 I think, but for some reason it ended up being 12... now I just have to find what the 10th and 11th ones are then...
Profile V16.0 Yasuri Shichika
Well, this one stayed up for wuite some time! This one was fun to make, particularly the links, since it's the firsttime (when it comes to slicing the image) that all of the links came before the 'big image'. As for the editing, it was mostly the text. THe original image is practically the same, I only changed some of the levels and color settings.
Profile V2.1 Hatsune Miku
Back to filling numbers again! And yes, the 2.1 means it's been edited ^__^; This is one of the first profiles I've made, and I have to say I'm surprised I didn't use it for such a long time. I guess I had to wake up that Miku fan in me, lol. Eather way, the amount of editing on this image is also pretty much minimal, I don't think I even played arounf with the original image at all. The original text, however, wasn't the quote I hat, but an actuall good legnth of some mumbo-jumbo I came up with when I made it. I just had to change it though, because I came across the quote a while later and it seemed to fit perfectly... and I didn't like that bit of mumbo-jumbo anyways.
Profile V15.0 Panda
I think the girl looks like she could be Miku? Anyhow, this is a nice profile, with a cute picture :D
Profile V?.?
Since it's the profile that is currently on my page, I won't post it here :P
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