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Comment by LiamD posted on This forum is a joy..others are not.. at 26/11/2006 - 11:00
Hi Matt,
just having a read through the site now. I don't use PS, so I'm just going into google land to see if there's a GIMP plugin to use their profile.. I think. I may have to raed it again????
Cheers
Liam
just having a read through the site now. I don't use PS, so I'm just going into google land to see if there's a GIMP plugin to use their profile.. I think. I may have to raed it again????
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on Commercial Digital Printing at 18/11/2006 - 12:49
Hi all,
one of the girls at work liked a few of my autumn pictures.. (I posted a couple earlier in the week) and asked if she could have a copy of 5 different ones for her living room wall.. I've made it.. yay..
After trying out a print or two at work on one of the colour laserjets, while I was out, she eventually ordered a 10x8 print of each from Bonus Print online. They turned up next day and were stunning. Printed on Kodak glossy paper, colours were just right, not too saturated, or too dull, and well.. I'm going through my photos this weekend to sort out some for printing. I've never really got around to it before, and home printing never really did for me.
The price for the above, £1.10 per print and £1.50 postage in lots of stiff card. I thought about the cost, and if I were still using film, that's very cheap considering it would cost more for a roll of film and D&P at 6x4, only to find a couple of really good ones afterwards, if I was lucky.
Once I've received the ones I'm going to get printed, and if they're as good as the others, I'll be putting a link in the recommended suppliers sticky. I'll make sure it wasn't a one off first though.
Basically they really did make me think I had some potential as a photographer after all. :roflmao: I think a quid a print towards an ego boost is definitely worth the money.
Off to take some more now.. some where, haven't made my mind up where yet.
Cheers
Liam
one of the girls at work liked a few of my autumn pictures.. (I posted a couple earlier in the week) and asked if she could have a copy of 5 different ones for her living room wall.. I've made it.. yay..
After trying out a print or two at work on one of the colour laserjets, while I was out, she eventually ordered a 10x8 print of each from Bonus Print online. They turned up next day and were stunning. Printed on Kodak glossy paper, colours were just right, not too saturated, or too dull, and well.. I'm going through my photos this weekend to sort out some for printing. I've never really got around to it before, and home printing never really did for me.
The price for the above, £1.10 per print and £1.50 postage in lots of stiff card. I thought about the cost, and if I were still using film, that's very cheap considering it would cost more for a roll of film and D&P at 6x4, only to find a couple of really good ones afterwards, if I was lucky.
Once I've received the ones I'm going to get printed, and if they're as good as the others, I'll be putting a link in the recommended suppliers sticky. I'll make sure it wasn't a one off first though.
Basically they really did make me think I had some potential as a photographer after all. :roflmao: I think a quid a print towards an ego boost is definitely worth the money.
Off to take some more now.. some where, haven't made my mind up where yet.
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on Commercial Digital Printing at 18/11/2006 - 12:36
Quote:
Another advantage of using the longer lens(es) is that you can use your big sturdy tripod off the edge of the table instead of the tiny, tippy table-top tripods close up.
Hi Mac,Another advantage of using the longer lens(es) is that you can use your big sturdy tripod off the edge of the table instead of the tiny, tippy table-top tripods close up.
re: the table top tripods, reminded me of a thread I posted back at the beginning of the year..
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2118
As we've gained a lot more membership since then I thought it might be worth another showing..
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on Extension tubes! at 17/11/2006 - 18:16
Hi all,
I had an email from my site asking where WIZIWYG can be found. It seems that either Praxisoft have gone bust or been bought out. Most (third party) download sites had it as a direct download from the Praxisoft site. I have however found this link..
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/ZooPart/ZooScan/article.php3?id_article=47
who have it on their own server, if anyone needs a copy.
I've verified the MD5 checksum (9ce509a92465ecccd5b4822ffcc7a311) and they are the same, so it's a safe download.
Cheers
Liam
I had an email from my site asking where WIZIWYG can be found. It seems that either Praxisoft have gone bust or been bought out. Most (third party) download sites had it as a direct download from the Praxisoft site. I have however found this link..
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/ZooPart/ZooScan/article.php3?id_article=47
who have it on their own server, if anyone needs a copy.
I've verified the MD5 checksum (9ce509a92465ecccd5b4822ffcc7a311) and they are the same, so it's a safe download.
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on Praxisoft's WIZIWYG, no longer available from Praxisoft at 16/11/2006 - 13:38
I have my PC working again.. yay!
A new motherboard, and it's all go again.
Is this what you were looking for Ken? If not, let me now.
Cheers
Liam
A new motherboard, and it's all go again.
Is this what you were looking for Ken? If not, let me now.
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on photo album templates at 24/11/2006 - 12:51
Hi Ken,
I can add a bit more detail to the above post.. I still don't have a working machine at home, hence the lack of it.
This is the code for index.shtml your home page.
That's the entire code for each page file.. apart from one invisible line of code (the browser doesn't display it, but it's there) that calls up a header and a footer file.. that's everything before and after the code above. This means that all styling is contained in one file, header.htm. It saves having external css sheets, which is the bit of code that governs the layout and styling of the site. This means that if for instance you liked the basic layout of this draft, but wanted the banner colour bright red, then you look for this bit of code in the header.htm file..
On the plus side re: my computer.. it wasn't the hard drive after all, but either the processor or Mobo, so I haven't lost a thing, even though I have backups, they're out of date.
I'm rambling now. That's what happens when I don't have constant access to a PC. Sad eh!!
Cheers
Liam[/quote]
I can add a bit more detail to the above post.. I still don't have a working machine at home, hence the lack of it.
This is the code for index.shtml your home page.
Quote:
<div id="left" style="background: url(projectorhomegsmasked.jpg)">
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="title"><span class="maintitle1">Welcome to </span><span class="maintitle2">Pencil of Light</span></div>
<!-- Page Content Starts Here -->
<!-- Page Content Ends Here -->
</div>
All other pages have the same basic code.<div id="left" style="background: url(projectorhomegsmasked.jpg)">
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="title"><span class="maintitle1">Welcome to </span><span class="maintitle2">Pencil of Light</span></div>
<!-- Page Content Starts Here -->
<!-- Page Content Ends Here -->
</div>
That's the entire code for each page file.. apart from one invisible line of code (the browser doesn't display it, but it's there) that calls up a header and a footer file.. that's everything before and after the code above. This means that all styling is contained in one file, header.htm. It saves having external css sheets, which is the bit of code that governs the layout and styling of the site. This means that if for instance you liked the basic layout of this draft, but wanted the banner colour bright red, then you look for this bit of code in the header.htm file..
Quote:
#head {
position:absolute;
margin:0;
top:0;
left:0;
display:block;
width:100%;
height:100px;
background: #000000;
background-position:0 0;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
font-size:4em; z-index:5;
overflow:hidden;
color:#fff;
}
that designates the style for the head div of the page, and change the 6 zeros to the code (bolded) for the colour red. Ten seconds work and that's it for the whole site. Likewise, if you want to change the picture in the left hand div, then just upload the picture to the site, and change the URL to the new one. This is set individually for each page.. look at the first bit of code..#head {
position:absolute;
margin:0;
top:0;
left:0;
display:block;
width:100%;
height:100px;
background: #000000;
background-position:0 0;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
font-size:4em; z-index:5;
overflow:hidden;
color:#fff;
}
Quote:
<div id="left" style="background: url(projectorhomegsmasked.jpg)">
Basically that's it. <div id="left" style="background: url(projectorhomegsmasked.jpg)">
Quote:
<td>
<a href="newpage.shtml">New Page</a>
</td>
is all the code you need to add if you wanted to add another button at the bottom, as the styling is again all in the header file. As I said before, I'd have done a bit more to it, but I couldn't. A favicon would be nice as well.<td>
<a href="newpage.shtml">New Page</a>
</td>
On the plus side re: my computer.. it wasn't the hard drive after all, but either the processor or Mobo, so I haven't lost a thing, even though I have backups, they're out of date.
I'm rambling now. That's what happens when I don't have constant access to a PC. Sad eh!!
Cheers
Liam[/quote]
Comment by LiamD posted on photo album templates at 22/11/2006 - 15:24
Hi Ken,
I got most of it done.. before my hard drive crashed and burned last night. I'll only be around intermittently until I get it sorted out(posting from work), but this is what I've come up with so far.
http://www.liamsworld.org.uk/penciloflight/index.shtml
It's basically a working site as you look at it. I've kept it in a similar vein to your original design.. I guess you wanted it to look like that anyway. I was working on the last couple of graphics when my PC dies so the last couple of pages haven't been done yet, but you get the idea.
Cheers
Liam
I got most of it done.. before my hard drive crashed and burned last night. I'll only be around intermittently until I get it sorted out(posting from work), but this is what I've come up with so far.
http://www.liamsworld.org.uk/penciloflight/index.shtml
It's basically a working site as you look at it. I've kept it in a similar vein to your original design.. I guess you wanted it to look like that anyway. I was working on the last couple of graphics when my PC dies so the last couple of pages haven't been done yet, but you get the idea.
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on photo album templates at 20/11/2006 - 08:19
http://www.liamsworld.org.uk/animals4.shtml
and if you think you can handle it..
http://www.liamsworld.org.uk/animals5.shtml
It's a work in progress at the moment, but I'm hoping to turn it into a serious but fun learning tool for children and their parents to do together. I've got young neices and nephews that should find it useful. There are other categories to be finalised.. colour, shapes etc. but that's the basics.. oops, X factor's back on.. gotta run.
Cheers
Liam
and if you think you can handle it..
http://www.liamsworld.org.uk/animals5.shtml
It's a work in progress at the moment, but I'm hoping to turn it into a serious but fun learning tool for children and their parents to do together. I've got young neices and nephews that should find it useful. There are other categories to be finalised.. colour, shapes etc. but that's the basics.. oops, X factor's back on.. gotta run.
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on photo album templates at 18/11/2006 - 19:44
Hi Ken,
yep.. if you'd turned up at TechSupportForum whilst I was still active there, I'd have talked you through setting up a site, but the basic templates are easy enough to do. I'll knock something up in the morning, and put it up on my site for you to have a look at. It will be a template, so you'll eventually have to put in the detail as you update it, but I'll happily get you to that stage. I might even learn something myself.. and I'll get to do some coding again. I've been too busy to much to my own site so it might give me a kick up the backside to do some work there as well.
An example of one of my pages.. nothing to do with photography but fun anyway.. I did all the graphics from scratch and a chap on another forum customised the script for me.. see if you can spell the words by dragging the tiles across.
http://www.liamsworld.org.uk/animals3.shtml
Cheers
Liam
yep.. if you'd turned up at TechSupportForum whilst I was still active there, I'd have talked you through setting up a site, but the basic templates are easy enough to do. I'll knock something up in the morning, and put it up on my site for you to have a look at. It will be a template, so you'll eventually have to put in the detail as you update it, but I'll happily get you to that stage. I might even learn something myself.. and I'll get to do some coding again. I've been too busy to much to my own site so it might give me a kick up the backside to do some work there as well.
An example of one of my pages.. nothing to do with photography but fun anyway.. I did all the graphics from scratch and a chap on another forum customised the script for me.. see if you can spell the words by dragging the tiles across.
http://www.liamsworld.org.uk/animals3.shtml
Cheers
Liam
Comment by LiamD posted on photo album templates at 18/11/2006 - 18:54
good job chaps..