just some odd images here and there

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Kraellin wrote: there are still a couple rough spots i'd like to iron out, but i shld be re-submitting this one.

look forward to it's submission

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StevieJ wrote: maybe I'll take another pic of it like that when I get the chance......

do

Craig, I always liked the 'mist plume' you put in.....nice touch!!!

Did this go HU yet???

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Kraellin wrote: i read it as 2 inches.

That would be something.....but I would need a microscope to do the texture though..... LOL.....

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Kraellin wrote: how long does it take you to do one of these?

The one posted......about a 100 hours if everything goes right.....depends mostly on the size, texture detail, and how many times I have to re-work the surface with the soldering iron.....which is the most time-consuming part. I go through alot of soldering tips because I'm keeping it in the solder.....moving back and forth to create texture waves, ripples, striations, patterns, ect.....

LOL.... Yeah, I get good money for them.....

alright, like i said, i've been reworking my falls filter. in fact, i've stripped it down and shld be getting several filters out of this. here's one example of that:

edit: bah! this stupid upload image isnt working again!

ah! finally (thanks, FF )

Interesting......getting into some overlay effects???

Hmmmmm.....I was just thinking that a "Rain" filter might work well with a droplet smart filter in CS3.....

now see, i can do one like the attached just fine and i can adjust it just fine for density, color and opacity, but if you look at it closely, it's too regular and too linear. no drops, just streaks. i mean, it's not real bad, but it's just missing something. i may have to spend some time googling water images again

i think the cascade is working out nicely. seems to add some realism.

yeah, i've played a bit with the stretch... uhm, not happy with it yet, but good eye the refraction idea is interesting, but not using any on this one...yet. i really dont want to add it for the time added by a refraction. but again, very interesting idea and i may well put that in in some tests.

in the meantime, i've plugged the new Falls filter into the Waterfalls filter and got this:

LP, carl? what is LP?

thanks, carl

thanks, steve

i'll have to look at 'Rippled Glass', steve. and lol on the full circle with glass menagerie

ok, i just looked at the guts of rippled glass and yes, we're almost exactly on the same page there. i used two perlins, you used one, i used on refraction, you used one, but the rest is very similar. i may well have to try out the refraction. i already have the perlin and blur. i wont need the hue/sat. i already have 6 or 7 color controls in there. but again, we're very similar, the biggest diff being the refraction. could well be useful. thanks

oh, and if you are using PicLens on your browser (i recommend it), go to google image search and look up 'waterfalls' and then use piclens. it's quite an array and you'll also see where i'm getting my inspiration.

no, it's not only for firefox. i'm using it in i.e. read it again

you may be on the firefox page. try this one: http://www.cooliris.com/

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Carl wrote: ummm Life Preserver

duh! sorry, carl; i'm getting senile

and oh, i'd never even thought of that one for a worn or aged look, but i do see what you're saying. a bit too linear and regular, but yes, that might work. always good to have another pair of eyes around

it is a neat way. saves having to load all those google pages one at a time and is a much more aesthetic means.

ok, let's see if this works. i had to cut the optimization WAY down in order to get under the 250k limit here, but it may still be ok for viewing. just bear in mind this was compressed like 80%.

thanks, carl

i might do up a better version and post it on youtube or something. might be fun.

the waterfalls in the full form, dont take very long to render... maybe 30 seconds per image or so. and in the just-the-falls version, it's about the same, but that one has the refraction added. actually, thinking about it, it's probably not even 30 seconds on both. prolly half that, maybe.

well, it looks better in the larger size, but thanks i think i'd do it differently if i were doing it again. i'd move less sliders per frame for less changes at one time.

and that's an excellent idea on the children's books... online, animated children's books... boy, i know some animators that would be excellent for that. do children like porn? ok, maybe not. but all kidding aside, that really is a good idea. i wonder what a google on that would turn up?

and now the same photo with northernshadow's 'a watercolor painting'.

and since gunsan doesnt have any published filters, i borrowed one of lynn's, 'batik art'

hehehe, 5%? you bandit!

seriously, though, you shld look that up and see if anyone has done it. i dont know how you'd charge for it, but it's a really good idea, especially with whole generations now growing up on the web!

i tend to agree, but how would you do it? how would you charge for viewing an online thing like that? or, would you charge for a download?

ah, like a one year subscription. ok. that shld work.

yes, the trouble is web currency, i would think. mothers are not likely to give their kids pay pal accounts. it works fine if mom or pop is viewing with the child, but that's going to be more limited. we need something better than pay pal.