StevieJ's ReliefPainter-Oils by StevieJ

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Carl wrote: I'm eager to learn Web site design

I could be wrong about this but it seems to me that, due to the bandwidth restrictions imposed by the web, the artist or designer needs to have a certain style in order to be successful - or at least there are some styles that are incompatible. Then again I consider less than 2.5Mb/s broken for anything except text or passing parameters. So you can imagine my attitude towards the current 56Kb/s link I am attached with currently. The pipe I would like to have to my audience would be 200Gb/s on the last mile and a thousand times that on the backbone. That would provide more reality than a blow-up doll.

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Carl wrote: I hate turning work down

I am hoping to avoid any work on the web. I will if I have to, hell I washed pots and pans for two years in college, but I would like to bypass it entirely if possible.
Of the packages you have coming I have only used Photoshop and Illustrator but they are both equal and invaluable - IMHO.

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StevieJ wrote: Have you considered it as a means to "market" your creative skills

I set up an account on Youtube. I was just hoping to upload something to there. I have a domain, interboundgraphics.com, but I can't afford to set up a server.

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Kraellin wrote: a pomegranet

yes... my favorite

a pomegranet is the origin of a river in spain?

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ronviers wrote: but I can't afford to set up a server

How much is it per month for a website???

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Kraellin wrote: i believe the fruit in question is a pomegranet

LOL.....

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capnsparrow wrote: Okay, first of all: Super sweet filter!

Thanx

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capnsparrow wrote: I have the exact same image on my computer!

Yeah, you and probably 5 trillion other people I only use restriction-free images to post test pics here.....never my own originals.....

leasing web sites can run from free, where you get maybe 10 gigs of space, on up. read the fine print! you want to particularly pay attention to any bandwidth restrictions and any penalties for going over that bandwidth.

here's a page you can look at for an idea of low-end hosting... and up: http://www.webhostingstuff.com/ these are NOT the only sites out there that will give you a pretty good deal. DO research this! there can be sloppy service sites, extraordinarily good ones, low bandwidth, metered, unmetered, come-ons, etc, etc, etc.

if you have a decent uplink speed and a dedicated ip number (your computer's address on the web through your isp), you might even consider hosting your own site. there are web servers you can install on your own computer, some even free. i was using Abyss web server for a while when i hosted my own site on my own computer. that was a free one and worked fairly well for a basic server.

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Kraellin wrote: pomegranate

OK - thought it might be a very old persimmon that had seen better days

Ron/Kraellin very interesting about web stuff, the link wouldn't display for me unfortunatly, as I know nothing about it any knowledge is appreciated

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ronviers wrote: Do you have a site Kraellin?

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StevieJ wrote: never my own originals

I'd love to see some of your work some time

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capnsparrow wrote: ROFL Okay...

you have to dot your eyes and cross your tees around here LOL

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ronviers wrote: Do you have an online presence?

No, but I'm now starting to think about it Craig's right.....you can set up free websites with limitted space.....have to deal with a flood of advertisements that you have no control over.....but could work just to get your "shingle" out there

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Carl wrote: I'd love to see some of your work some time

I dont' post anything that I want to sell.....because I don't want it copied, ideas taken, capitalized upon by others, or undermined by potential buyers seeing it online (not one of a kind and 15 million other people have it). I sell all my works with all image "rights" included.....so they can reproduce it if they so choose and I can not.....which supports my asking prices I can post some early works that no longer have any value to me. These are drastically reduced versions of some of my first digital works.....

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Carl wrote: I know nothing about it any knowledge is appreciated

I heard from someone smart that you should lean CSS. I'm not sure what it does but it's supposed to be the bees knees.

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StevieJ wrote: don't want it copied, ideas taken, capitalized upon

My strategy is to only have ideas that are unattainable.

These look beautiful Steve - they must have taken forever to do. I like the second one best - the texture and colors are excellent.

Thanx guys, glad you like them They still have sentimental value to me I believe that I did them with the first or second release of Photoshop.....back in the days of the horse-drawn buggy They took forever to render.....large files even by today's standards. Reducing them to post here all but killed their actual color richness and detail clarity from the originals.....

Just for sheeeeots and grins.....this was my very first work of digital art.....I still like the liquid pixelation effect in the middle......but I don't know if it will show up after being reduced.....

PhotoSop had filters for as long as I can remember. My "House Plant" work was done with layers and color manipulation.....but my "Plastered Flowers" was done with a stock filter that came with PhotoShop......

Yeah, gotta try them out for yourself......sometimes the samples aren't indicative of all the ways it can be used.......

The only thing I can really add to this conversation is that the fruit in question is definately a pomegranate. I eat them every fall and recognized the shape right away.

Now I will leave before Steve expects some kind of intelligent comment from me.

I do like this filter though.

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He's happyer when it's dumb down for him

This must be "Slap the Crap Out of Steve" Day.

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ahimsa wrote: This must be "Slap the Crap Out of Steve" Day. Big grin

Hey guys we got away with it' I told you if we do it while he's asleep we can slap him around and he'd never know

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I didn't realize that I was getting slapped around in this thread too

It's a great game, you should try it sometime. When you least expect it...slap yourself.

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ahimsa wrote: slap yourself.

I don't need to......I have you guys doing it for me

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Carl wrote: It was all Ron

Yeah, right.....waiting until I'm asleep to start a "StevieJ Bashing" party.....heathen infidel defier!!! LOL..... (Conan The Barbarian)

Well, I guess that I don't want to know how it is if you guys despise someone LOL.....

So late night "StevieJ Bashing" and "Slap-a-StevieJ" days are really "We love StevieJ" tributes??? ....

Excusy for a moment.....I just noticed one of Carl's comments

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Carl wrote: "Brokeback Mountain" is my favorite movie of all time!!!

........ LMAO..... payback is a beeeeotch

LMAO

Yeah, Steve, hanging out with you for a few months would turn anyone into a smarta$$.

I have no idea what you mean by that.