The great boiled lobster dilemma
I touched on this subject in a comment to my last entry, but it's worth taking up in more detail. Picture, if you will, a JPEG of a beautiful woman wearing, er, something white (I have to be careful in order to avoid risking a testosterone explosion from at least two gentlemen here... you know who you are!) Unfortunately, the original picture is so preposterously red that the poor lady looks like a boiled lobster, so you tinker with the colours, at which point you suddenly discover she's wearing green.
I've done my best and compromised to the limit of my ability, but there are some pictures - particularly from Charnos and Silhouette - where it has turned out to be totally impossible to get both the style illustrated and the unfortunate model's skin to a believable colour simultaneously. I just want to know this: how on earth did they get the pictures to turn out so badly in the first place? Pictures with an ordinary colour cast are fairly common, and understandable - it usually just means they were taken in the wrong light, and it's easy enough to correct them. Pictures with a selective colour cast which affects the skin more than anything else, however, are a major headache. I'm just glad I've finished them all now.
Oh well. Apart from that I have invented Chocolate Noodle Pudding, which was a bit of a desperate measure because I had forgotten to buy any ice cream and I wasn't going to use the rest of those rice noodles for anything else. (I'll eat rice with enthusiasm, brown for preference, but I am forced to conclude I don't much like rice noodles - they don't taste of anything.) I was hoping all the chocolate, ginger, cinnamon and so on would disguise the noodles, but it doesn't really. Perhaps David will eat the other three pots (it's very rich, so one ordinary serving of noodles makes four small pots of this stuff). He'll eat most sweet things without asking too many questions. ;-)
This evening I am going to write reams of valuable advice about caring for silk and other things useful to know, but since I shall be listening to the play-offs at the same time I may need to check it over in the morning!
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