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# That is really shitty
I assume that you failed to save a PSD as you worked? ( That will be something you must get used to )

Still, your efforts are to be commended. That's some nice work.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:16, archived)
# I'm going to rebind my save keys to save as
and keep a read only copy on another harddrive in another country before I publish my work online
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:18, archived)
# I always do incremental saves in PSD
as I work and when it comes to publish I simply avoid the save button and use the 'save for web and devices' function. That way your work and web images are never the same pieces and you can't lose your work.
I know it just sounds like a load of old wank in hindsight but it is standard practice if you want to go into that kind of work.
"I pressed the wrong save" is no excuse for missing a deadline ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:22, archived)
# It never occured to me that I might do something that stupid
I'll start a new routine for my next image

although I think I'll have a little wank and cry first
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:23, archived)
# That's pretty much how I dealt with losing my dissertation about a week before hand in.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# FUCK
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# It was only a Physics dissertation, 6000 words.
Managed to rewrite it in time, but it was pretty upsetting.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# I can very much imagine
At least you got it sorted but I very much felt for you in the moments first reading that
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# I will not make the same mistake for my MSc project.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:30, archived)
# i accidently deleted 30gigs of my life
i moved them from one h/d to another, didn't check to see if it had all moved (it hadn't) and i deleted it all
oh well - live and learn
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# Ouch.
Lose anything serious?
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:39, archived)
# yes
all the pictures from 1996 upto 1998 and all my music etc etc - luckily enough i downloaded PCI file recovery and managed to get about 80% of it back
(I helped save b3ta! SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:50, archived)
# What was it on?
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:32, archived)
# paper, probably
;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:33, archived)
# The effects of UV radiation,
so lots of atmospheric scattering/absorption, vitamin D production, and skin cancer type stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# Sounds fun,
I have no idea what I'll do mine on
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# It was alright.
Seeing as I was trying to get into Medical Physics afterwards, it seemed the best choice.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:38, archived)
# aww, just buy another off the net ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# I probably should have done,
I didn't get a particularly good mark.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# eeep
i used to do incremental saves when i was doing my music tech a-level. ended up with about 1000 saves per completed piece.

but have stopped doing taht, probably will for my diss when i start it as it makes the most sense
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# save it to disc as you go
it's worth doing for a few pennies, have also had
a throwing baby out with bathwater experience.
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# well i'm not getting paid for owt i do on my pc
so i don't need to worry too much. and my next essay's only 3000 words

main thing with my Mus tech was that it was all sequencing, so if i fucked owt up it'd have been a bitch to go back and find out where
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# another good trick is to set up an automated ftp task to your webserver
so that you can press a button and magically get an offsite backup every week

this is no good if you don't have any private directories on your webspace though
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:49, archived)
# You wrote your whole dissertation in one sitting without saving once?
(I helped save b3ta! ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:27, archived)
# No, I'd been saving.
but word managed to crash and remove all traces of the file.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# ^this
although i'm told i managed to more or less delete word and all that went with it, and at the time i only had a floppy drive so saving stuff and getting stuff printed was a mare. if i wanted to write i'd have done english not an art degree.
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:31, archived)
# do you not even have the line art
saved? If so I can re-ink it and blow it up massive for you if you fancied the colouring again. There can't be more than an hours work in it now you know the technique.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# as luck would have it
I did all my digital inking in illustrator so that is safe

I'm a bad hand at line art - it was the coloring I was trying to learn

I guess I could do it again sometime, and in all fairness this project was pretty arbitrary, it was just about teaching myself the techniques

I'll do something a bit different now
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# If you are serious then I would suggest
that you buy as many of the tutorials as you can afford from here
www.digitalarttutorials.com/
Brian Haberlin is probably at the top of that game. If you can only afford one then get either the comic book style or the smudge painting style, It will transform how you approach this stuff.
This was the first piece I made when I was learning digital rendering 2D and thanks to the tutorial it did not turn out too bad.
zootcadillac.deviantart.com/art/Apocalyptic-Rhino-59995837
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:42, archived)