Renee My artistic bent is life long... and it is such a pleasure and an honor to now give glory to God through it. I want to ask you which image program you use. Are some of the memes you put in life bits yours, then? I thought you were getting them from other places on the web, like facebook, as they sometimes have something that indicates that site. If you are adding text to an image to create a meme, are you able to add a layer style (like a glow, or a contour) around the text to help separate it from the background? Do you have the ability to add an additional layer (like a solid color) on top of the image, to add the text to, which you could cause to look mostly transparent, to allow the image underneath to show through for the greater part while allowing the text to be more visible? Making that layer just large enough to contain the text then allows the full opacity of the image underneath to show around the text, also. Putting a simple border of a contrasting or complementary color around the meme image also helps "pop" the image
I use fontee app and image search, or use mine and make some, not real creative like you Magenta. Others I get on the web and on fbook. I have a few sister friends that create some and others just random.
I have never heard of that app... I used to use Pixlr, which was a free online image editing program, and it was pretty good, very similar to photoshop, but they took it offline during the time I was on hiatus last year, and when they put it up, it was vastly downgraded to function like a very simple editor, which was useless for me. My daughter got me photoshop then... she is agnostic but likes my designs
Renee My artistic bent is life long... and it is such a pleasure and an honor to now give glory to God through it. I want to ask you which image program you use. Are some of the memes you put in life bits yours, then? I thought you were getting them from other places on the web, like facebook, as they sometimes have something that indicates that site. If you are adding text to an image to create a meme, are you able to add a layer style (like a glow, or a contour) around the text to help separate it from the background? Do you have the ability to add an additional layer (like a solid color) on top of the image, to add the text to, which you could cause to look mostly transparent, to allow the image underneath to show through for the greater part while allowing the text to be more visible? Making that layer just large enough to contain the text then allows the full opacity of the image underneath to show around the text, also. Putting a simple border of a contrasting or complementary color around the meme image also helps "pop" the image
I changed the font in that one also, actually it was the glow I fiddled with, which affected the font color, and the glow became way less noticeable, which kind of defeated the purpose of it haha. (I find a white glow works best.) Contour on font helps to make it stand out more against the background, though I rarely use it, it can be handy, and on a frame or some other element it works well also, to make the item stand out a little more. There are quite a few functions in layer styling that can be used, some of which I have not really explored much a all, maybe trying some just to see what they do and not caring for the effect, so I stick with what I know. Gradient overlay can be fun on text, too, and though I rarely use it, you could do a lot with it, changing the color choices and number of times and sequence they show up. If you have access to photoshop, it is an excellent program to use, and to get used to using. I am mostly self taught BUT, I did have to get help to make animated gifs
"Getting lost" as you say, oh, Renee! It is more like getting found I wonder if you saw this thread? I made a couple of posts in it about my job. I have been very blessed in this regard. Not saying there have not been problems, but they have been mostly personal and interpersonal
Wow, it is so cool that what you derive so much pleasure doing as a hobby is also your career. I also appreciate that you share your gift's ins and outs, truly such a blessing.
Hmmm, I do not create images at my job, or even really use photoshop much (at work) except to make image files compatible for my printing machine (some people still use Adobe 98, which is not the color space my one machine works in) and other *very remedial things, like sizing (some people's files are way too large to print) *which I suppose does takes a certain amount of skill... sometimes a copy of a very old photo needs work the customer does not want to pay for (or has simply not requested to be done, often due to the cost involved) and as a courtesy I will do some touch ups to make it more presentable for them, free of charge... I know people's pictures mean a lot to them...
I do like to make people's pictures look as good as they possibly can
I have been doing it professionally for 43 years now Photo lab work is the only thing I knew I wanted to do for a job, as a career/means of supporting myself. I discovered my love of photography and dark room work in college as a 19-20 year old, started my first lab job on my 21st birthday, and always considered it a gift from "the Spirit of the universe" (since I did not believe in the Biblical God then ) A friend once told me, years after I was in college, which I did drop out of early 2nd year, that my college instructors had voted me the student least likely to succeed
I should have said, I do not create images as part of my job... I do some of my creative work on my laptop while I am at work, though, when I have nothing else to do. It gets very slow some times during the year...
