In my ongoing quest to mimic Photoshop tutorials in Paint.NET, I decided to take another run at one. This time it was for creating an "out-of-bounds" picture in Photoshop where something seems to step outside of a picture.
Here's what I was able to accomplish with Paint.NET:
Over on digg recently I also saw a tutorial for creating a fake software box using Photoshop. I don't use Photoshop, but I do use Paint.NET. So I decided to try the same thing using that tool, which is one of my favorite free tools.
There are a few features different from Photoshop, so it wasn't 100% trivial to do, but I did manage to emulate it pretty well. I may write a similar tutorial for Paint.NET users to follow. Take a look:
Over on digg, I saw a very Mattie-like script for GreaseMonkey/Firefox-- it's used to eliminate extra exclamation points on webpages. Using this, now I never have to look at web sites with painful exclamations. This is a comforting thought.
It seems there are a lot of things in this world that you ignore for years. Yet, once you discover them, they come full force and you aren't able to ignore it at all anymore.
This happened to me while listening to Soul Coughing one day. (Stop reading if you don't want to potentially affect your enjoyment of their music.) I discovered that nearly every single time Mike Doughty (lead singer) sings a sentence that ends in a consonant, he ends it with a very audible "uhhh" suffix. For example, this turns "Unmarked Helicopters" into "Unmarked HelicoptersUHHH".
This realization has quite tainted my enjoyment. Now it's very difficult for me not to notice it, making me unable to casually listen to their music.
Perhaps no one else runs into quirks like this and I'm just losing my mind; either way I thought I'd share.
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