self-portrait without tail

Camoflague.

The ears fooled the other cats until it was too late.

From a photograph of myself while I was taking a break from something far more complex. About an hour's time, if that, while I sat there in bed.

tool links

Ambient Design's Art Rage has a Mac version now. New toy.

Initial impressions: Slick, simple interface (AD is former Kai's Power Tools folks). Nice limited set of tools. The blurb on the website suggested it was resolution-independent, but it's very not - so much for hoping for a not-dead tool with some of Expression's capabilities. Doesn't work well for me in practice, though - it keeps on deciding all my strokes are super-light half the time, so I make no marks. Even turning the built-in pressure compensation all the way up drops a lot of quick strokes. I'd like to like it for quick fooling around, but it makes me press way too hard on the tablet, and grit my teeth in faint frustration: sure route to wrist trouble and headaches. Bye, Art Rage! Maybe I'll try you again when I'm not using this little ol' Graphire2 pad.

Also Autostitch might be fun to play with on Rik's PC, if I grab the camera and go photograph stuff. It claims to be clever enough to automatically detect and stitch together panoramas from multiple ones shot on one memory card. Pretty smart.