tarotlyn
Love the new borders, too, Lynnie! i say go for it!
Thanks sis!...they may vary a little because I had saved that one and forgot to save itas a 'project file'...so I had to do it all over again last night! LOL
I am so glad you don't mind waiting...I am on it though, dearest sis!
They look awesome!!!
Thanks Gryffinsong! that really helps me keep going! Glad you are in my corner!
Seriously, take all the time you need. You know we're there behind you all the way.
Thank you! firefrost! ... I KNOW I will get this deck online and it will be good! @ everyone:...and it is so weird, last night (all through the night) in my subconscious mind (and tuning into the Spirit World)...
...and for the first time in my life, I was not able to solve something, namely the border or sizing situation
They were trying to tell me, but my thick head couldn't get around the info! YIKES!!!
What was being said was that I could even use a different border, they were showing me! YIKES!!!
But I couldn't decide then so when I woke up, I didn't have the answer...but I know it is there...
So today I just got away from it and did some other things around here ...this is the first
time (tonight) that I have been on the computer! I did my hair, played with my dogs, brought
in several days worth of firewood into my side storage room (new fireplace wood place
LOL)Re: what I am doing now:
Here is an idea of what I am talking about...(I actually wrote this down last night):
"Procedure for resizing"
1. Open an original 'project 300 x 500 pixel card file'
2. Try to delete the old border
3. Megarender the image 3 times larger = 900 x 1500 pixels
4. Save the megarendered card to my game crafter pinters file on my hard drive (so I can find it later after all 78 cards are megarendered)
5. Open saved 900 x 1500 pixel image and place it on 'top' of my new transparent border
which is 825 x 1125. Then move my megarendered image to the back and resize it to 676 x 1121 pixels
and move it to fit in the center of my 825 x 1125 new border
6. Type on the text (tarot card titles)
7. Also, fix any flaws that show up from the enlarging process
8. Save to my 'finished cards' game crafter printer folder on my hard drive
9. Upload all 78 cards to the game crafter site (my account with them)
10. Proof each card on their site to make sure it fits inside the cutting lines, etc.
11. Hit the 'publish button' to put the deck for sale on their site
Now, IF I had taken the time to 'read' their whole site, BEFORE creating my deck, I would
have seen that their tarot card sized template HAD to be 825 x 1125 pixels
I would have saved myself all this trouble!
By doing it this way though, I can keep the aspect ratio of each card so it won't be distorted! YAY!!!
...yes it is more work, but why give up now?... I am NOT a quitter for sure!
Not giving up...just mulling it over now...LOL... I know I will get it right, be the perfectionist I am! Ha!
***MORE NEWS from today:
Remember back when I said I was going to get a new computer next year...well my B day
is in about 2 weeks (and it will be 'NEXT year' then)...sooooooo, guess what?
...yep, today I found and purchased (from the HSN.com shopping channel) (with flex
payments of $149 per month for 5 months) a 21 1/2" Gateway All in One Computer...
It looks like a laptop...and only 3 inches thick...but that screen is a HUGE 21 inch Screen
that I will be able to do large graphics on!...LOL
It also has the latest technology high definition 'touch screen' and it has a 500 gigabytes hard drive
and 4 gigabytes of ram! It only has ONE cable to connect and that is to the wall electricity!
Everything is built in and already connected up. It is totally wireless with wireless keyboard and mouse,
and it has internet WIFI connections. Comes with over $500 worth great of software I will
be able to have 14 or more programs opened on the screen at one time...I am so excited
that I can't even explain how I feel. Oh, and it has a remote control with a mini keyboard on the back too...LOL
They only had 300 left when I ordered mine and won't get any more of those for about 5 to 6 months.
Here is the page link if you want to see the computer...the stock image doesn't do it justice
so be sure to play the video that they have there on the top left of the page...you can see
how wonderful it is in action!
http://electronics.hsn.com/gateway-...all-in-one-desktop-computer_pf-159392_xp.aspx
It will be delivered on the 12th just 4 days before my B day
How is that for timing?!!!I received a cost of living raise on my monthly widow's pension check (additional almost $200) a month,
started this month, so that will pay the flex payment. I have bought quite a few nice things
from HSN in the past and I like them a lot. To use flex pay, you have to have a debit card
because they just take out the flex payment from your bank automatically...and I have
never had a problem with them...they are very honest. It will be paid off by April 2012.
Why not get it for my B day for myself??? The computer is my main form of entertainment, except for the TV...LOL
Besides there is no one else here to entertain, except 3 little Chihuahuas! LOL
In fact I have been thinking about creating an 'Aye Chihuahua Tarot' deck! LOL...
...and maybe some divination games for the game crafter site...so the new computer will
really come in handy next year! Hope I am creative in a '4' personal year! (numerology)
If you think I am a perfectionist, just wait till I get in that 4 year!!! zowie is it ever exacting!!!
So you see why you haven't heard from me today!
Tomorrow I work on the borders...
tarotlyn
