Trying out some colors

Through the magic of Photoshop (and some template construction by my Photoshop-savvy downstairs tennant) I can try out some sample color schemes for the house without having to slap paint on the walls. These are quite rough -- I'm not so good at the whole color-tweaking process, and it took a lot of trial and error to figure out how to do the global color-substitution on the various layers. But here are some sketches ( behind the cut so they don't mess up people's friends-list displays. )

The computer manipulation is slow enough for me that I don't think I'm going to do too many more versions. (And I'm getting a little frustrated at how hard it is to make it do the color I'm visualizing.) I'm running into the same problem I have with choosing clothes: I want to try something "different" but only a limited range of possibilities feels right. But I rather like both #1 and #3 -- possibly #3 a bit more, but maybe that's just because I did that one myself. What do you-all think?

More playing with house painting

Cut because of the graphics. ( Read more... )

S&S published already?

I was doing some random ego-surfing in Technorati and ran across a review (posted within the last couple days) of Sword and Sorceress XXII, which wasn't projected to come out until November. Guess I'd better fit a trip to Other Change of Hobbit into the lunch schedule this week and see if they have it in (or know anything about when they will). Oh, and the reviewer seems to have liked Skin and Bones.

ETA: link to the review