Yazid Azahari

PSDs and OCD

Every now and I again I’ll make something, and for a period of time after “completing” it, I’ll continually revisit it, staring at it and nitpicking on details, trying to see if it’s perfect and if there are any improvements to be made. Everyone knows someone annoying like this. These details can be anything from a line, a color difference, a shadow, even a pixel.

At the moment, this little white triangle is causing me a tiny bit of grief:

If you’ve been following my twitter you might’ve known that I’ve just recently put up the latest installment in my series of Magic Hour Mixtapes. I finished up the cover art pretty late last night and uploaded it to Flickr (where I usually post up the tracklist and download link).

After that I attached it to the songs, compiled a zip, and set it to upload before going to bed. When I woke up this morning, Photoshop was still running with with the cover file open so I ended up looking at it again. Then I started to wonder…

“Does the ‘M’ look enough like of an ‘M’?”

That’s when the little white triangle came to mind. I figured if I placed it on top of the shape it’ll make it look more like an ‘M’, so I tried it out and made a second version.

With or without, toggle layer visibility, zoom in, zoom out, I still couldn’t decide which was better. Eventually I figured I wouldn’t be bothered with re-uploading everything if I decided to change it anyway, so I just let it go. But obviously since I took the effort to actually write about this I probably still care one way or another. Someone tell me which one looks better. Or not.

It’s like Claire Dunphy with her perfectionism and getting a family portrait done in last season’s finale of Modern Family. I think the message they tried to make was that sometimes it’s the imperfections that make something work. I think I’m just trying to say that sometimes we simply can’t help it. You should see the minuscule changes I did to the already minimalistic cover of the last mixtape. lol