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General discussion / Re: New way of mis-using our images

« : Февраля 10, 2008, 01:46:29 pm »

I have been using this site, and find it very useful.
They are using thumbnails in a search in the same way as Google and other search engines. I don't object to seeing my images used in this way.
Keywords are not top secret. I have looked at other peoples keywords in order to get inspiration. I tend to keyword my images, then look at this site to see if there is anything obvious that I have missed, for example the word 'elephant' in a picture of an elephant. (Yes I did miss that!)
To me, keyword spamming is using words that do not relate to the image in order to drive traffic. For example, using 'sexy woman' on an image of a sofa. This site seems to me to be promoting the use of appropriate keywords rather than spamming.

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General discussion / Re: Creative & Technical Enthusiasm ~ Staying Motivated

« : Декабря 19, 2007, 11:46:38 am »

I use Stumbleupon for inspiration. I set my preferences to find photography and artistic images only. I have come across some wonderful pictures and artists that I would never have heard of otherwise. Their work can set a spark to generate new ideas. Its a great way to pass a couple of hours when you are too tired to do much else!
My favorites file is full of great galleries and artistic sites.

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Off topic / Re: No topic. Just flood

« : Декабря 16, 2007, 11:33:00 am »

Brrr, its cold round here. We need warming up:

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire

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Off topic / Re: Poll-Windows or Macintosh or something else?

« : Декабря 16, 2007, 11:29:17 am »

A number of the graphics programs I use are Windows only, so no macs round here!

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Illustration / Re: Apophysis Help Please

« : Декабря 07, 2007, 11:45:11 am »

It just happened to me. A file I set rendering last night came out blank. I have not changed anything at all, so I don't know why this happened. I will search around this weekend and see if I can find out.

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Off topic / Re: Where do you live?

« : Декабря 06, 2007, 11:20:22 pm »

I find this map fascinating. How brilliant it is that people from so many countires can come together in friendship to communicate and help each other.

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Illustration / Re: Apophysis Help Please

« : Декабря 06, 2007, 11:16:12 pm »

3 Days!!!
I just rendered on 5000 by 5000, and it took 8 hours. How big is your monster?

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General discussion / Re: congratz DNF-Style!

« : Декабря 05, 2007, 10:00:05 pm »

Congratulation. Its very well deserved, great picture.

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General discussion / Re: Hall of Fame.

« : Декабря 03, 2007, 07:17:15 pm »

Sybille you are so right. They are stunning images.
DNF, I would love to spend a day just watching you work. I bet I would learn more in a day watching you than I would in a year on microstock.

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Illustration / Re: Apophysis Help Please

« : Декабря 03, 2007, 07:09:09 pm »

I just tried another render to test this. I saved it as a .png file with a transparent background. It worked fine. What did you save your black render as?

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Illustration / Re: Apophysis Help Please

« : Декабря 02, 2007, 11:53:54 am »

So far so good! I was able to download it this morning.
Put it into your Apophysis file for safe keeping.
Open Apophysis and go to Options then click the Paths tab.
See the line for Export renderer. Using the little file symbol at the side of that path. navigate to where you put Flam3, and click on Flam 3 render.
Its done!
It opens a command window to render. I tried it on a small render, and it worked fine.
I found a tutorial about using Flam3 to render animations. I don't do animations, but I would love to learn how. Ignore the installation bit at the beginning, we just did that!
http://electricsheep.org/apophysis/

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Illustration / Re: Apophysis Help Please

« : Ноября 30, 2007, 11:37:33 am »

I have upgraded my version to check this. It means you have to download the flam3 renderer from www.flam3.com. Click the download tab, then click the Windows zip version.
The bad news is that it kept timing out on me before the download had finished. I am in work now, so I will take a longer look later when no one is going to look over my shoulder!

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Off topic / Re: Where do you live?

« : Ноября 29, 2007, 11:46:38 pm »

Near Chester, in England.

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General discussion / Re: Poll-What is your least favourite stock site?

« : Ноября 29, 2007, 11:38:50 pm »

 

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Illustration / Re: Apophysis Help Please

« : Ноября 29, 2007, 11:30:51 pm »

I am using version 2.02 (I must update it soon!), but it should be the same. I use similar parameters, but render by using the file/export flame command. It uses a different rendering engine, I am afraid I cannot remember what its called though.You can still select the same parameters. I find the speed and quality is much better than the render to disc command.
Another way to increase render speed is to increase the RAM available. I have 2gig of ram, but would like more.