It's cold in here

[layla]

The fire in the boiler apparently didn't catch when I fed it this morning, so it and the house have been sitting all day at -20(ish) with no source of heat. And it's freakin' cold in here. The thermostat goes down to 50F, and the needle is huddling cozily at the bottom of the scale.

I have a pretty high cold tolerance, but this is less than comfortable. It's so cold I don't want to type. All I want to do is huddle. But I have to finish Freebird for tomorrow.

At least it's not literally below freezing in here. Water sources actually *would* freeze in the cabin when I was a kid.

*shiver*

Comments

[neosquirrel.livejournal.com]

It's funny how people ask, "which can you put up with more, extreme heat or extreme cold?"
I don't really think anyone can truly "tolerate" either one more, unless it actually affects their environment as well-- and by that I mean, frozen pipes or wilted paper from humidity.

Still, the things we do fo our art! Too many a time since I started the strip I find myself finishing at three in the morning-- usually its because of my sudden need to color an entire strip. I still wish I could locate the paint bucket on my Photoshop CS-- there's NO WAY they got rid of it! (Not to mention I can't seem to draw lines anymore in it either unless they're perfectly vertical or horizontal, and that's only because I shift-hold dragging a brush across the screen).

I'm rambling again.

*headdesk*

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I can actually help you with both of these! I have CS2 and I assume it's the same, because I ran into both problems when I switched from PS5.

The paint bucket is located (for some inexplicable reason) under the gradient tool.

The line is a little trickier, but you can do it. Third tool up from the bottom, on the right side of the toolbar, (under the Type tool) is a rectangle. If you click on it, there are a whole bunch of different shape tools, including a line. Now, in their default state, they just draw a mostly useless vector shape. But you can make them draw pixels. Select the line tool from the drop-down, and go up to the tool bar at the TOP of the screen, where the tool options are. At the far left there's a drop-down with presets (you don't need that) and right next to it are three little icons: a square with open corners, a square with open corners and a pen tool in the middle, and a square with NO open corners (the rightmost of the three). If you hover the mouse over this one, it says "fill pixels". Select it. Now your line will function as the line tool used to.

[neosquirrel.livejournal.com]

O holy paint bucket... *bows in awe*

Okay, so one major pain in the ass down...

But that line tool... It works as you said... but the damned thing spins like a top! I want to just pick a point, drag it out, and WHA-BANG, done.

WHY did they try to fix something that wasn't broke?!

Tankyouveddymuch.