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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:38 pm    Post subject: Too much time on my hands. Reply with quote

This is a the sort of nonsense I get up to when I just don't know what to do with myself. This has taken a good few hours of fiddling about to put together. I quite liked the idea of pictures presented in a different way, we can frame them, create triptychs and so on, but it's nice to explore a new idea. The blurb is just stuff from my flickr profile to fill space. Frustratingly, PSP doesn't justify text and I didn't think to check Photoshop, so I did the text in Word and pasted in screen shots, which was a little laborious to say the least.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had forgotten all about PNG format and the ability to have transparent backgrounds, and gifs never had the same quality. There's a whole world of shapes to be explored....


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

somebody is having fun.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PNG is a great format that is often forgotten.

It is a shame Web browsers do not handle TIFF files.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PNG is a great format that is often forgotten.

It is a shame Web browsers do not handle TIFF files.



Why is that Pete? PNG is lossless and offers transparency.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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peteski wrote:
PNG is a great format that is often forgotten.

It is a shame Web browsers do not handle TIFF files.



Why is that Pete? PNG is lossless and offers transparency.


Historically, not everything supported PNG.
JPEG became the standard for web use.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PNG is a great format that is often forgotten.

It is a shame Web browsers do not handle TIFF files.



Why is that Pete? PNG is lossless and offers transparency.


Historically, not everything supported PNG.
JPEG became the standard for web use.


Is that still the case? I've never used anything but JPEG and GIF for the web, so know nothing about the situation. I'm certainly impressed with the ability to use PNG.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A stereo pair with transparent border, the top is for cross eyed, the lower for parallel or the viewer Dave.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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A stereo pair with transparent border, the top is for cross eyed, the lower for parallel or the viewer Dave.



Nice! Though I do find it hard to look at on an Apple Display
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Nice! Though I do find it hard to look at on an Apple Display


Thanks Pete, is the problem because of the PNG format. I don't know enough about it.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Nice! Though I do find it hard to look at on an Apple Display


Thanks Pete, is the problem because of the PNG format. I don't know enough about it.


I think it's more to do with the resolution I am using [2560x1600] where as at home [1600x1280] it looks fine.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks Keith, appreciated as always

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

some non techy stuff here

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html

and a bit of a tutorial here, also advise on use and when not to  use png

http://web.archive.org/web/200512.../07/05/png-optimize-psp-tutorial/
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hil26 wrote:
some non techy stuff here

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html

and a bit of a tutorial here, also advise on use and when not to  use png

http://web.archive.org/web/200512.../07/05/png-optimize-psp-tutorial/


Thanks Dave, very helpful. I'm in the middle of a format crisis, and am looking hard at PNG.

I have bought the upgrade to PSP PhotoX2 Ultimate and whilst it is less clunky than X2 and has some very fine features, they have reduced support for PSD, which is my preferred format. I can no longer save layers in PSD format. Their own format, pspimage, is ok if I really want to save layers and vectors, but is not in least cross platform and basically a pain in the ass and Thumbs plus, although offering thumbnails and reduced images, is not happy with it.

Although PNG doesn't save in layers, it is lossless, produces smaller file sizes than PSD, offers RGBa and the ability to use transparency far superior to GIF.

Right now though my computer is becoming a mess of formats and I am not happy.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still messing about with frames and Dave's very 3D effects idea.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Still messing about with frames and Dave's very 3D effects idea.

I like the look of the filmstrip frame - almost like plastic or melamine
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Still messing about with frames and Dave's very 3D effects idea.

I like the look of the filmstrip frame - almost like plastic or melamine


Thanks John, I was trying for a sort of retro funky, tin film can look, kinda happy with it.



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