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![]() ![]() You can use either patent gold or loose gold with this system. You want a thin, even film over the base and it needs to dry before applying the gold leaf. You can use a brush or a soft cloth to apply this to the base when it’s dry. Next, I applied the Kolner Instacoll System ACTIVATOR. The first coat must be completely dry before applying the second coat. (You can clean your brushes with soap and water). It’s really important to avoid making brushstrokes if you want a very smooth gold surface. This needs to dry completely- 1-3 hours between coats. I thinned it a little with a drop or two of distilled water. Next, I applied the Kolner Instacoll System BASE in two thinned layers. (This mixture can be stored in a cool dry place for several weeks only, so only mix the amount you think you will need.) You will find technical articles about this on the web- here is one. I used a mixture that is 1 part blonde shellac flakes to 4 parts denatured alcohol. The natural gesso is a porous surface, and even for other gilding methods, it is suggested to coat the surface with shellac thinned with denatured alcohol. ![]() Different Methods of Application Shellacįirst, applying one or two coats of shellac to the area to be gilded is most beneficial. I have experimented extensively with it and am happy to share some of the technical information I have observed. Many iconographers love this method because of its relative ease in application but particularly for its very shiny surface when it’s finished. With this in mind, I’m currently preparing to teach an online icon writing class that, in addition to teaching how to paint an icon using egg tempera, will focus on how to gild using the Kolner Instacoll Gilding System. Only in this way of sharing our experience can we hope to add the best quality to our icons and I know that we all want to bless the Lord with our most excellent work. I invite any of my readers who has experience with these new products to please write about it so it can be shared and published here. New Gilding MaterialsĪt the same time, many, many, new products used for icon writing have come on the market. This is great news for all of us, I’m sure. I’ve been studying and painting Icons for almost thirty years! Since I first began, the field of iconography has changed so much! There are so many more books on the subject, both “how to”, books about the history of icons, and how to pray with them. Greetings Friends and Fellow Iconographers: Valerie Cullers on The Worldview of an Icono… Michael and Christin… on The Worldview of an Icono… Valerie Smith on The Worldview of an Icono… View Christinesimoneauhales’s profile on YouTube.View Christine Simoneau Hales’s profile on LinkedIn.View Christinesimoneauhales’s profile on Pinterest.View christinesimoneauhales’s profile on Instagram.View Heavensvisions’s profile on Twitter.View Christine Hales Art/Icons’s profile on Facebook.Nor can they stay stagnant in … Continue reading Icons For Our Time Michael Halesįollow American Association of Iconographers on Social Media There are as many different viewpoints as there are people! I think we all agree that icons cannot be relevant to only one denomination of Christianity. As I view FB posts and blogs about contemporary Icons there is a lot of talk about what is a “real” icon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The character listing/mini-poster that came inside Transformer packaging identified him as "Autobot Commander", as contrasted with Megatron's title of "Decepticon Leader". Optimus Prime was among the first Transformers released from Hasbro in 1984. Many of the Transformers were based on Takara designs. Hasbro launched the Transformers toy line with eighteen different Autobot characters, all of whom transformed into automobiles, while the ten distinct Decepticons, (seven packages as three came two to a box/pack) were weapons, aircraft and communications equipment. Some continuities also has Liege Maximo and The Fallen as the ancestor of the Decepticon faction. Other leaders include Galvatron, Shockwave, Soundwave, Scorponok, Devil Z, Deathsaurous, Starscream, Thunderwing, Jiaxus, Ratbat, and Bludgeaon. Ultimately, the Decepticons desire to protect their homeworld, even if it is at the expense of others. More than a few have a sense of honor, while others believe that Cybertron would be better protected by aggressive expansion. Also, the Decepticons are not exactly the most compassionate beings in the universe, but not all fight for greed. This tends to cause some conflict, given how generally every Decepticon thinks that they're the most powerful. Unlike the Autobots, whose leader is a Prime bearing a Matrix, the Decepticons are led by the most powerful of their ranks (usually Megatron). ![]() After the featured film The Transformers: The Movie, Megatron was reformed as Galvatron, and Optimus Prime was replaced for a time by Rodimus Prime, only to return later on. Millions of years later, in 1984 a volcano eruption causes a probe to give them all new forms which come from vehicles in the surrounding area. When the Decepticons board the Autobots' ship it takes a beating and crashes onto Primitive Earth and knocks everyone unconscious. The Autobots did not wish to fight the Decepticons, but they fought in space anyway. Both factions needed supplies, and select numbers from each side intended to get them. They waged war for eons on their home planet of Cybertron against the heroic Autobots. The Decepticons are from a race called Transformers - robots that can change into vehicles, mechanical devices and even animal forms. 4.5 Transformers: The Last Knight (2017 film).4.4 Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014 film).4.3 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011 film).4.2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009 film).Beginning with the original Generation 1 cartoon, the Decepticon rallying cry has been "Decepticons attack!", as well as "Transform and rise up!" in Transformers: Animated as a play on the Autobots' "Transform and roll out!" rallying cry. However, the Japanese Version of Transformers Animated uses Decepticon (ディセプティコン).Īs opposed to the Autobots' Supreme Commander, the Primes, the Decepticons' highest ranking leader is often given the title Emperor of Destruction in Japan. The overall name of the Robots in Disguise villain faction is Destronger. The only exception to this naming convention is Car Robots, where the sub-group referred to as "Decepticons" in the Robots in Disguise adaptation, is known in Japan as the Combatrons (the Japanese name of the G1 subgroup known as the Combaticons). In the Japanese version of the franchise, the Decepticons are called Destron or Deathtron ( Japanese: デストロン Desutoron). Capable of transforming into alternate forms, these are often high tech or powerful vehicles including aircraft, military vehicles, heavy equipment, ground combat vehicles, expensive luxury cars, sports cars and even smaller-than-human-sized objects. They are depicted as a faction of sentient robotic lifeforms led by Megatron, identified by a purple face-like insignia. The Decepticons are the main antagonists in the fictional universes of the Transformers multimedia franchise. Megatron/ Galvatron (stated in exodus and the cartoon), Starscream, Steeljaw, Liege Maximo, Unicron, The Fallen/Megatronus (in the movie series) Other: Chaar, the Victory (G1), the Megastar (RID), Decepticon City (G1), the Nemesis (G1, ROTF, Animated, SG, Prime). Marvel Comics, IDW Publishing, Dreamwave Productions, Devil's Due Publishing, Fun Publications ![]() ![]() Since these types of files are compressed files, they are NOT recommended when printing your images - we will touch on that in the next section below. They are compressed files, meaning they are smaller files, which, like we discussed above, helps the images load faster in a web browser. The file extensions listed above are the most commonly used extensions for web-based media. Best File Types for Web: JPEG, PNG, PDF, BMP It is also a small deterrent for people taking your image without your consent. When sharing your images online, be sure to upload them at a low resolution - 72ppi is always a good number - as this will make your blog and webpage load much faster and take up less storage, which is ideal when your website has a storage limit. You can also think of it this way: in the 72ppi image, you have a lot of information compressed into a smaller file, whereas at 300ppi, the information is more spread out. This is because 300ppi is a much higher resolution, therefore the image has more detail (pixels) per inch. At 72ppi, a lot more colors are showing up, whereas at 300ppi, there aren't as many. The small, rectangular bounding box in the photo above represents the area that we zoomed in on. If we zoom in and compare the amount of pixels in an image at 72ppi versus 300ppi, we are going to see a lot more pixels: "Pixels per inch" is exactly what it sounds like, too! The term is simply describing the number of pixels in an image. The minimum resolution for an image that is being uploaded online is 72ppi. The resolution of an image is measured in pixels per in (ppi). When we change color modes later in the tutorial, we will use a more fine-tuned method. Keep in mind that the above method is a simple way to check the color mode. ![]() If you feel the need to double-check your file in Photoshop to see what color mode you have, follow this path: Your DSLR's default color mode is sRGB ( Standard RGB, is affectionately known as "silly RGB" because it isn't the best quality), and even when you switch profiles in-camera while you are shooting to, for example, Vivid or Neutral, you will still be in a form of the RGB color mode. It's pretty amazing to think that just these three colors, in various combinations, can create that many colors, right? Lets start with a few terms that you need to understand: Color Mode: RGBĪnything light-based (computer and TV monitors, smart phones, and the LCD screen on your DSLR) uses 3-color additive mode, which combines the colors red, blue, and green to produce all of the colors that we see on our monitors. In this post, I will walk you through the basics of how to prepare your images to use on the web, as well as how to optimize your images for printing. ![]() Following these steps will guarantee that your images look their best, with sharp online display and beautiful color tones in your prints. Not all file types and color modes are created equal, so when it comes image files, there are a few easy steps you can follow to optimize your image for whatever platform or media your image is intended - whether that be print, or web use. Optimizing Photoshop Images for Web and Print How to Sync Lightroom Presets from CC to Mobile How to Install Presets in the Free Lightroom Mobile App ![]() Kilometers per liter, liters per 100 kilometers, miles per gallonīits, nybbles, bytes, metric prefixes: kilobytes (kB), megabytes (MB), binary prefixes: kibibytes (KiB), mebibytes (MiB) ![]() GHz, gigahertz, hertz, Hz, KHz, kilohertz, megahertz, MHz dollars, Uzbekistani sum, Venezuelan bolivares fuertes, Venezuelan bolivars, Vietnamese dong, Yemeni rials, Zambia kwachaīits per second (bps), bytes per second (Bps)īarrels of oil equivalent, British thermal units, BTU, calories, electron volts, ergs, foot-pounds, grams of TNT, joules, kilocalories, kilograms of TNT, megatons of TNT, megawatt hour, mwhr, therm, tons of tnt, watt hoursĬFM, CFS, cubic foot per minute, cubic foot per second, liter per minute, liter per second, LPM, LPSĭynes, kilograms-force, newtons, pounds-force ![]() ![]() Arc minutes, arc seconds, degrees, radians, revolutions, turnsĪcres, ares, barns, cricket pitches, dunams, football fields, football pitches, hectares, pings, Planck areas, sections, sqcm, sqkm, sqm, sqmm, square centimeter, square feet, square inch, square kilometer, square meter, square millimeter, square yards, stokes, survey townshipsĪlgerian dinars, Argentine pesos, Australian cents, Australian dollars, Bahrain dinars, Bolivian bolivianos, Botswana pula, Brazil reais, British pounds, Brunei dollars, Bulgarian levs, Canadian cents, Canadian dollars, Cayman Islands dollars, Chilean pesos, Chinese yuan, Colombian pesos, Costa Rican colones, Croatian kuna, Czech koruna, Danish kroner, Dominican pesos, Egyptian pounds, Estonian kroons, Eurocents, Euros, Fiji dollars, Honduran lempiras, Hong Kong dollars, Hungarian forints, Indian rupees, Indonesian rupiahs, Israeli shekels, Jamaican dollars, Japanese yen, Jordanian dinars, Kazakh tenge, Kenyan shillings, Kuwaiti dinars, Latvian lats, Lebanese pounds, Lithuanian litas, Macedonian denari, Malaysian ringgits, Mauritian rupees, Mexican pesos, Moldovan leu, Moroccan dirhams, Namibian dollars, Nepalese rupees, Netherlands Antilles guilders, New Zealand dollars, Nicaraguan cordobas, Nigerian naira, Norwegian kroner, Omani rials, Pakistan rupees, Papua New Guinean kina, Paraguayan guaranies, Peruvian nuevos soles, Philippine pesos, Polish zloty, Qatar riyals, Romanian lei, Russian rubles, Salvadoran colones, Saudi riyals, Seychelles rupees, Sierra Leonean leones, Singapore dollars, Slovak koruna, South African rands, South Korean won, Sri Lankan rupees, Swedish kronor, Swiss francs, Taiwan dollars, Tanzanian shillings, Thai baht, Trinidad dollars, Tunisian dinar, Turkish liras, Ugandan shillings, Ukrainian grivnas, United Arab Emirates dirhams, Uruguayan pesos, U.S. ![]() |