Essence of the sub-Council

[*Kenji Murakami]

Something I whipped up, using Ryuki's base.

[*Jess♥]

very nice work kenji.

i like to see the variation.

[*Kenji Murakami]

Thanks, Ryuki. I'm pretty proud of it, myself. All of the colors might turn out a bit different - maybe a few of the shapes, too, judging by Caerleon's crystal - but I think it's a fairly good representation of them.

And in other news, I finally managed to get the original png file looking like this:

Rather than like this:

[*Jess♥]

oh that's wierd! looks like trouble with the alpha channel.

[*Kenji Murakami]

What's an alpha channel?

[*Jess♥]

in image editing and stuff... alpha refers to transparency.

alpha channel is a 'black and white' channel that is included with red green and blue, that tells the image which parts are transparent. as it is actually in various shades of grey, the transparency has varying degrees.

[*Kenji Murakami]

Oh, that's interesting.