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Published: 2008-01-28 23:20:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 27089; Favourites: 477; Downloads: 4062
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I was in the mood to do something crafty--and I've been wanting to make some steampunk goggles for art prop purposes. They're made from assorted pieces I picked up at the hardware store and suede.I'll probably move to to my scraps soon enough.
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i would better go with brown color material or better yet leather.
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interesting... i collected many of the same parts in my steampunk diy venture... gotta love it
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The goggles look amazing
I was wondering if you'd be able to help me?
I'm making a pair for my school design project, what materials did you use for this?
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Very very clever! I really love the purple suede!
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Steampunk stuff seems to be in of late...these look very cool! I could definitely see these on Wild Wild West.
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I love these goggles! I would buy a pair! INSTANTLY! And wear them always...
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Seriously, these are incredible!
A friend has asked me to do steampunk costuming with her for New Zealand's Armageddon in october so I'm trawling the internet for ideas right now.
These are definitely something I want to make!
Is there glass in these? Sorry to ask a weird question but how hard would it be to add tinted glass or plastic?
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Thanks very much...these goggles are essentially made from trash...toilet paper rolls, scraps of suede, plumbing parts that I painted gold, and the lenses are just thin pieces of plastic that I cut off of a box....so I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to add tinted glass or plastic at all. I used the plans from this tutorial: [link]
but then deviated, of course. If you end up making some, be sure to send me a link so I can see
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Wow, the second set of steampunk goggles I've seen today, and they're equally amazing.
I might use a similar looking design for a 3D steampunk picture I'm working on.
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Hmm...this picture has given me an idea for an actual functional device...
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You should model them haha. They look pretty cool. They even look like they have a practical use haha
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me? bahhh. ew.
But thanks for thinking they look cool 
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haha but they look practical and that means you made them well!
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We totally have to do a Steampunk shoot one of these days. Assuming we can get Chris all decked out, of course! He's got the perfect look for it, either with short hair, or long, with his sideburns, and those little geeky glasses of his... These are FANTASTIC, of course. But then, you already knew that. And I'm jealous--of course. But then, you knew I would be, didn't you?!
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Honestly, I think Chris is spent. But like I said before, if we can convince my friend Matt to get his butt up to New England, he would do it in a heartbeat...and he has experience modeling. [link]
I've also started a digital painting self portrait with the goggles....it's looking pretty cool so far, but my photoshop was giving problems last night, so hopefully that was just a fluke and I don't have to reinstall it or anything.
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Poor Chris! It was the wig that finally did him in, wasn't it!
Guess we'll just have to make do with Matter, then...
Can't wait tot see the self-portrait--it sounds intriguing...but then, EVERYTHING you do is. You're like an idea factory--I've no idea how you manage to keep coming up with no things all the time!
I'm sure your PS was just needing a reboot. A quick way to improve things with it, btw, is to purge your cache. Just click Edit | Purge | All. I do it everytime PS gets a bit sluggish...
Oh--and check out the brushes posted by `wroth over at =resurgere ! (As well as other brushes he has in his scraps.) I think they'd be very useful to you, painting...they're really wonderful!
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I tried to purge, but the option was grey and wouldn't let me. The problem I kept having last night was I would be painting, and then when I went to the toolbar, my cursor wouldn't change...it just stayed as the little circle and then it wouldn't let me click on anything in the program. When I went out of the program, the paint cursor remained, but with the arrow on top of it...so I just had to close the program out without saving..it was very annoying.
And thanks for pointing towards the brushes....it'll have to sort through them all
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Wo-ow, that sucks you quit without saving. Did you try whatever the Mac equivalent of Alt is? In Windows I'd try Ctrl+S (Save), and then try Alt to get into the menus and go through them with my arrow keys, failing that at least hit Print Screen to take a screenshot, then with that in the clipboard: Ctrl+Alt+Del to close off Photoshop, open MSPaint, Ctrl+V (Paste) and Ctrl+S (Save), then with the screenshot safely on my hard drive, reboot, open the image with PS and like quadruple the image size, transparency 30%, new layer and work over it like it was a template. But I don't know if you can do that on a Mac.
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the equivalent of a ctrl on a mac is the apple command key and macs have alt keys. I tried saving with the keyboard commands, but the whole program freezes up. thanks for the suggestion though.
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Well...I don't know anything about Macs...but in the Windows world, that's definitely the sign that it's time for a reboot! 
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I had rebooted twice...and I left my computer off for the whole day and just turned it on. But I think I realized it was the brush I was using--I had downloaded those other brushes and tried them all out.....but when I started working again and switched to the brush I was using, it froze up again. Ugh.
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Ah--that makes sense, then! Check the dynamics on the brush--they can be real resource hogs, if they're set too high...too much tilt sensitivity, for instance... (Or else just forget about that brush.
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I deleted it and made another one. I just thought it was weird because I had done the whole painting so far with that brush and then all of a sudden it started being a jerk last night...
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Hmmm...I agree--that IS weird!! I've never seen anything like that happen before..and I've spent a LOT of hours in PS!!
Then again, I don't use a lot of custom brushes, either...so my only real problem is file size...
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Yeah...and the problem isn't solved. I deleted the brushes, made new brushes and the same thing happened. Then I opened the program again and used different brushes...and it happened again. So I opened the program again, made a new project, and it happened again. It's like, when I need a 3 pixel brush, it decides to crap out on me. And the weirder thing, when I opened it again each time I had to load the package of brushes I just downloaded each time...and then the last time, the original brushes that I deleted were back in the preset. wtf. I am really REALLY irritated.
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Wow. That's really bizarre!!!
I would a) do a search on your symptoms (most problems with PS are pretty well documented--not a lot of one-offs, for some reason!), and b) try deleting your preferences file, and starting again. (If you don't know how to do that, try searching for "delete preferences photoshop". It's a common fix for PS problems. I hate doing that--because it wipes out all your presets--and I've got actions, workspace, brushes, crop tools, etc, all set up...and even though I save them all the time, so I can reload them, it's still a pain putting it all together again...BUT--it DOES usually solve whatever my problem is. On the rare occasions I have 'em, that is...)
Good luck with that!
(Are you sure it's not you? Your electro-magnetic field or something? First your old laptop...then PS... 
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I always have the worst computer luck. I did a search for the problem, and I couldn't find anything similar. I'm actually backing up all of my files onto an external harddrive just in case I have to reinstall photoshop. I'll try deleting the preferences file..but I don't know if I have the energy (or sanity) to deal with it right now. Errrrrrrrrr......
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You know--I honestly believe--as a PC professional--that there ARE some people who just have something a bit "off" about their electromagnetic field or something...people who aren't stupid users--but somehow, things always seem to go wrong, randomly, on their equipment. I was joking, before--but quite seriously, I think there ARE some people like that...and you might be one of them. :/
I hope not, though!
How's the problem now, btw?
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Yeah, I am one of them for sure. I think that's the reason that when I was really into photography I avoided digital like the plague and declared myself a "darkroom purist". Believe it or not, I get more control through using enlargers and chemicals than through photoshop.
The problem is about the same. I talked to a graphic design (and mac enthusiast) and he told me that it's probably a problem with the compatibility of the program with the processor. Because I'm using CS2 on a new mac, apparently the program can't keep up with the new intel processors and so it can do weird things. He told me to install the updates, which I did last night...but I haven't tried it out yet.
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indeed. I started with toilet paper rolls and ran with it--got the idea from this tutorial: [link]
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well thanks for that. I will check it out then.
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The sunglasses of le future?
I dare you to wear them. In public.
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nah, that's alright. but some people actually do wear steampunk gear as everyday wear.
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I think I saw someone like that once,... I think he was the guy on Guinness World Records who '
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These are the coolest F'ing thing. I am ridiculously jealous.
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Dude, they were so easy to make. I used toilet paper rolls and a hot glue gun.
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Damn. I have the glue gun, but where am I going to get toilet paper rolls?
That's awesome. So... is that not actually metal around the lenses?
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no, it is metal around the lenses...I went to the hardware store and if you look in the plumbing section there are various types of metal washers and pieces for pipes. They were originally silver, but I have a talent for faux finishing so i painted them to look like an aged and roughed up brass. Hardware stores are amazing for art projects and usually much cheaper than things you can pick up at the craft store.
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yeah. No kidding. Whenever I ever do anything crafty the hardware store is the first place that I hit!
Now that you mention it I can really see that plumbing piece in there. The faux brass looks great.
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