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Last night, Katie and I went to a breast feeding class. I learned that breast milk is love, cow milk is the devil and even cows hate it, and that babies who are given bottles grow up to be militant Islamists. I also learned that my nipple piercings will not effect my child’s ability to be breastfed, because, this may shock you, male nipples do not produce milk! WTF?
Readers from yesterday will be happy to hear that I made a lot of progress on Make Pixel Art version 1.1. I finished implementing the export feature, which will allow users on iPads and in Chrome to ploop a transparent PNG file out of the app without having to upload it to the internet. I will be play testing it over the next few days, and hope to submit it to the app store by the end of the week.
And last night, I was up late working on the UI for PixelVision. I am pleased with how it is coming together - I was able to design away two or three “pages” of the application, so now almost everything is available on one screen AND it is not a terrifying jumble of buttons.
All of this time I am able to dedicate to my pixel art projects is due in great part to the project my company XOXCO has been working on since OCTOBER: a complete makeover of the official website of THE GRAMMYS using the fantastically exciting responsive design technique. Because we implemented the design using responsive techniques, Lullabot was able to implement ONE Drupal site which looks and acts differently on smart phones, tablets and normal computers. This was a HUGE website with lots of literal moving parts, and I’m really proud of the work that my team — and everyone at Lullabot and the Grammys — did to bring the site to all the connected devices out there.
My first challenge of the day - what, yeah it’s 11:15 and I haven’t started anything yet! - is to figure out if and how to implement layers in PixelVision. The code is done, but I’m questioning whether or not people will need or want to use multiple layers in a drawing that is only 50x50 pixels.
On the one hand, having multiple layers allows the user to have a background layer for patterns or a fill color, a layer just for the photo, and a layer just for the stickers. Keeping these things separate means a user can set a background, then switch to the photo layer and erase pixels to reveal the background. NEAT.
On the other hand, this is an app about quickly making pixelized pictures. Are layers overkill? What if there was some hybrid where background elements always went in the background, stickers always went in the foreground, but nothing but the photo was editable?
People, these are the type of questions that will keep me up at night! Like, all night, grinding my teeth, tossing and turning, thinking about ways to swap layers in a frictionless way! NIGHTMARE SCENARIO, I KNOW!
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