The Art of Megan Merz: November 2013

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Albino Red-Tailed Hawk

Digital Painting progress. Another kind of backburner project of mine is digitally painting animal portraits from my huge archive of over 4,000 photos that I've taken over the years. I'm going to try and take these skills over to traditional art as well, either gouache and watercolor or acrylic. Trying it out in digital is a nice way to get a handle on how I want to paint without consuming physical materials.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Doe Painting Progress

Sort of working on this... I think I need to put some treasure in the dirt pile, or show different layers of dirt. Bones? Shiny rocks? What shall I put in...

Oedipus Rex

So today, I made this for the Classic Literature Derby.
If you have a shirt.woot account and want to vote for it, that would be awesome.

LINK HERE -> http://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/75300/oedipus-rex

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Blogger Changing Image Colors- And How to Fix It

When I uploaded one of my shirt designs yesterday, I noticed that the colors were way off, as you can see below. The top image is what uploaded, the bottom image is what it should have been. A subtle difference in the greens made it go from olive to pea soup, which totally changed the tone of the image.

So, the problem? Google+. I didn't even have an active Google+ account, but somehow when I made my blog, it flipped on an enhanced image function. If you're having this issue, here's how to turn it off.

1. Activate your Google+ account, even if you don't think you have one. I just blew through setup by clicking "next" until I got to the home page.

2. Click on your Home Button and scroll down to click on "Settings"

3. In Settings, scroll down until you see Photos.

4. Scroll down to the section labeled Auto Enhance. If Auto Enhance is set to "Normal" or "High", it's on, and that's likely what is causing your image issues.

So, just click "off" to turn it off!

That should fix it. All my subsequent uploads no longer have color changes. I hope this helped!

NOTE! If your colors are still looking way off, make sure that you're saving them as RGB, not CMYK before you upload them. In Photoshop, that setting is under Image, then under Mode, shown below.