音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Since about 3 years ago I found how to make modules into transparent, I never stop using semi/transparent elements in my blog template design. I love transparent stones more than solid ones, same thing.
I just said I want a similar style as what's in laylania HP for my blog. I really was attracted by its design: a dark purple magic book, with mysterious keyholes, bookmarks, and this or that kind of keys with ribbons dispersing around. Such a fantastic theme!
Laylania inspired me making a new template today, though I don't have the power to make myself a similar design as it. What I could do was to... actually I had completely no idea what kind of template I wanted--yet I just wanted to change. It's summer, don't you feel hot while staring at the orange color? I don't deny that background is cute, but I couldn't stand anymore in summer with a warm color scheme!

At first, I only searched online randomly. Nothing good. Regular patterns couldn't satisfy me anymore! Then I tried different keywords: Aurora, Universe, etc. The song "sweet jerryfish" was by chance just ended. Alright... binaria, aquario, and jerryfish. All are good for summer days.
To find a good background is hard, to choose one from several good images is even harder. I need random background displaying!! XDD
And I took like 30min to figure out how to use it. The last time I used this feature was 3 years ago, via a script in PHP, which I know nothing. Yet it was good I backed up the code (though I forgot to write down how to use it). ^^;
The last and the most interesting step was color matching. This time, I made a stronger contrast among different elements, hope it does look cooler~
So from today's work, backup is really important! No worries, I got today's template backed up well, together with the images I used. See how long I can keep this theme being used. :3

P.S. Recently is really hot, and seems it's over 30°C tomorrow. I did sleep a lot during this weekend. Am I in estivation? xD

There are three I've been looking forward long ago.

志方あきこ - Laylania
Stories from a fantastic magic world. I can't stop staing at the goldfish from its HP....
The first song really shocked me. Such a new style for Akiko, which reminded me the last song from ArTone Vocal Collection. Bouncing light jazz tempo, blinking light, dream and reality. Although I can't fully accept Akiko's style changing yet, it's not that bad as an opening song. Since "Ta Fatie", everying is returning to "normal" Akiko, which I like really. xD Track3 "不条理≧楽しい?" is another MOE song--not as MOE as "EP=NOVA/.", but it does make me laughing happily. BTW, in booklet, she wrote in full-kana in song info region, which is exactly like what's in "EP=NOVA/." lol
Then, Track5, which is the insert instrumental track, it has a mysterious and retro melody, and I'm wondering what kind of story is behind this track~ (I just decided to actually buy this album 'cause the booklet is so pretty! <3 Then I will read the entire text and see what it says xD).
Track4, 6 and 7 are the rest typical Akiko song, yet, I will still emphasize the last song. When I just saw its lyrics... WTF?? text I can't read!! Then when I saw the compose+lyricist, ahh, I'm released (you know why!).
And I want a similar design for my blog... *_*

伊藤真澄 - Heart of Magic Garden
Lantis famous songs featured by Masumi's rearrangement?! I didn't know too many from it, but from the three I knew, Masumi is really a magician who can turn everything into pure light! She even purified SeishoujoRyoiki. LOL Superb strings as usual.
I also liked track3, just tried the original version, and, lol.. what a crazy song! Her rearrangement is much better to me! XD
Songs I didn't like before became good as well. Listen to Masumi's work, I always feel happy and in ease. Thank you! <3

島みやえい子 - Onkalo
From her own liner notes, "Onkalo" here means "伏魔殿", which is "pandemonium". So, how will she depict this place in the song? I only tried the preview on official website so far. Still waiting for my copy to arrive. Σ(ﾟДﾟ) I do believe Eiko-sense's works are always excellent!
She just mentioned that she's done therapy.
Congratulations, Eiko-sensei!!!

Yesterday, I was MOED by Noriko too.
♫ ティル・ナ・ノグ
♫ 鬼さんこちら
♫ Mirage of Sands
I never watched Noriko Lives before, so I was excited, and I was amazed by that how brilliant she sang (and dance)!
I also got a super-video (super because of its length), which is a collection of many Noiko eroge songs. Oh, god, I never knew Noriko having so many works are not included in any of her albums...

So, basically, recently is my Aki-Nori addict period again.
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD!

Alright, now I'm in a pretty good mood for looping Nagi's "Ambivalentidea", and I just realised that how delicate the instrumental version is--I actually love it more than Nagi's vocal version! Like what I said previously, since bermei.inaza was involved, the songs HAD TO be awesome. Nothing is better than the unique arrangement. The piano, the strings, so excellent that I myself is engulfed in the sounds. Then, recent rainy days triggered my desire to "create" something. Consistent with my past post, the most initial idea came from that rainy day.
On Saturday, draft was done, and on Sunday evening, I got the willing to outline it.

Motif: rain, umbrella, dark, depressing+delight=contrast/ambivalence
Characters: Mihane x Chisato the most yuri-sisters forever

I finished outlining and basic coloring on Sunday and shading on Monday. As usual, I went online for good background candidates. However, I couldn't decide what kind of image I would use very quickly. I tried lots of images on Monday and Tuesday, from realistic photos to abstract color patches, finally I got to this focused view of two lilies. Although being a bit tedious, it was fun. I also learned how to turn an image into sepia hue, how to make shiny glassy balls (didn't apply in this work), and how to "rain" your image--Photoshop is awesome!
I took so much time in the final make up, yet I couldn't avoid the tragedy from my bad habit of not keeping saving my file--Photoshop is so stable that it never ever crashed in years no matter how busy my computer is! Yesterday, when I was about to finish, I wanted to active a tool by keyboard shortcut, so I hit on Ctrl plus another key, and unconsciously hit on N for aborting current modification. That only happened in 2 seconds, and after that, no time for me to regret.
What I hit on first was "Ctrl+W", which means "close current file", and the following "N" closed my about-to-finish work without saving it!
OMG, WTF...
Not the music or the image, I myself was depressed. orz
I even had an impulse to turn my desk over. (the desk is innocent!)
Fortunately, to restore my latest work manually wasn't that hard. I did take long time, but that was all about this or that adjustment. I knew what I should to do this time, therefore my desk was saved I regained everything very quickly (and even better :3 ).

Eventually, time to give it a title. I'm not that kind of person who always names his/her work in the very beginning. It was Wednesday morning when I chose "Tranquil Impulse" as the title, and it was Wednesday afternoon when I tried to place a piece of lyrics of "Ambivalent" in the image (with three words in different colors). Also, this time, the main title got a semi-transparent gradient fill, which made the title standing out from the endless depressing blue. Hmm, depressing blue? I love this kind of color though. XD

At last, a casual thought: yuri = lily, coincidence?! :P