TOOL Lingo

Industry is a sly bitch.

Imagine you're an intern. You get yelled. You reach for help. And you discover....

INDUSTRY LINGO 101 for Photosop.



1. J-Tool (Jay-Tool) : "Healing Brush Tool". It is too long and hard to remember.

• Shift + J: to switch, otherwise J is "Spot Healing Brush Tool" by default. Very different.

2. O-Tool (OH-Tool): Known as "Dodge and Burn".

• use lower % for Wacom tablet.
• Shift + O: before asking "how to switch between dodge and burn?"

3. B (Bee): Brush Tool. Can be used on ANY Layer. Most versatile.

• Often followed by "Press X" (Press-Ex): FOR MASKING.
• "B-Button": If someone says "B button" by accident, he's either an elderly or Geek Wizard ;))). 

4. Q-Mode (Qeue-mode): Press Q. It is Quick Mask "mode". Don't freak out when everything is Red. 

• "Don't freak out": Often people panic because it often turns everything RED. Press "Q" again.
• "Press B": Press B right after Q to make life easy. Check your Opacity and Hardness % before clicking. 

5. "Ask Google": Open internet. Google it. 

WRONG TERMS:


Clone Brush: It is Clone STAMP Tool. Often mistaken for J-Tool as results are similar (not really).

Healing Stamp: There is only 1 Stamp, and many brushes.

ON Warhol

I am professionally established (#lol) as an exhibition designer. Was, perhaps.

I PM'd an exhib design on Warhol. (I was a exhibition design project manager of an exhibition of Andy Warhol)

Kid you not, I did my whole research HERE. 

http://www.warholstars.org

So, reading this whole story will give you a whole different look on the man.
I can summarize. ;)

Andy Warhol.. he goes like this..........

He suffered a rare skin disease when he was a child.
That made his balls sparkle rubies (blood clots) like stars.
He was so shy he never joined the New York orgies, but drew.
He became the most successful graphic designer selling shoes (and cars).
Then he lost his heart in Asia, coming back to be the most famed illustrator.

He started selling reject prints at Serendipity.
He got hospitalized for ass fucking so hard.
Just blew away every penny making movies.
With his stars he picked up off the streets.
Until he got shot three times in his silver factory.

Then the 70's came and he rather spent up the ground.
With Jackie and Jaggers and just more to come.

Well, he spent more time professionally fucking around, supporting arts and culture,
until he died in his dream on a hospital bed.

Good bye Andy.

The man who gave Art to people.
Even Basquiat was one of the Warhol-childrens.

So it goes.

002

1200% is where you want to go if you need to go pro'er than pro.
It means, you really don't have to.




PIXEL is the new-age definition of imagery.

No longer chemical floating between plastic. Pixel.

Pixel means, first, you can zoom in.
Pixel means it is no longer physical.
Pixel means everything is numerical.

Each pixel is RGB (R=xxx, G=yyy, B=zzz)

ZZZ!.

Go to sleep. Class is over.

This is it. That's all. There is nothing beyond #002.
Use the knowledge for yourself !

000

New Year!

Happy. Be happy.

I was walking along the construction site to see a Jamaican-looking dude doing paint jobs.

Moments later when I walked pass by again, I smelled some hint of green (like the medicinal weed green).

This is the second out of second time (2/2) that the same thing has happened.

It made me happy. Don't ask me why.
The manager looking dude who came by also looked happy.

Ask them. :)



I'm posting photoshop 000 today.



This is called the "3-point curve".


It is the first thing a retoucher would learn.

Look at the dots.

I made 3 of them.

Along the Vertical lines.

This is how it goes:

The RIGHT one is the light one
The MIDDLE one is the base
The LEFT one controls darkness.

Cover the BASE, then control the Light and Dark.
Controlling midpoint (the middle dot) controls overall contrast when those other 2 dots are created.
Otherwise, you read the mountain (histogram) and do wut you wana do.

still alive

For those of you who know me as "Charles from the jungle" ....

Well, yeah, that is still alive.




Straits Times article, 3 months ago.


ジャングル団はいまだ活動しています。
団じゃないけど。
💮ニーリボヴィッツとかからギブミーマネーしてる最中です。

ケへへへ。我ら妖怪団！
とかじゃないからね。

when sh$t is fuck@d up

It's hard to tell how color works unless you see it happening.

Sometimes, we fuFck things up.
Sometimes, that color on that corner is off.
Sometimes, the whole range of spectrum is just off.





Sometimes, life gets complicated and twisted.
It takes a lot to fix it.

It dwindles and cross turns.
Like that green getting in your way.

So this is how it look when shit is just fusked up.

There's always order somehow, and when you don't know what's 'right' or 'wrong', follow whatever that looks better/beauty ;).
And if you don't know what's beautiful... step out and look at nature.

tricolour

When I was a teenager, I saw this movie that blew my mind.
Tricolor.

It was a three-part movie on love.
It's a french film, but the director isn't french.

It's a classic. You know what I'm talking about.
Red White and Blue.

Red blew my mind.
The color red. So innate. Deepest colour, I swear.