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Yes.  I started out on Photobucket.  When I got to a certain level, they wanted me to pay.

It was about that time that Bob bought the Gallery, so I changed over.

I still can't find the guidelines.  Still looking.  :lol:

Anyway Max, what it all boils down to is, if you are happy to posy 800 that's ok but the picture quality suffers somewhat :???:

Phil

I know, Phil.  It still bugs me a bit.

It's looking great John and I applaud your patience (and dexterity) in "blacking" the edges of the tile strips.  They do look much better but I used to find either the marker dried out or I managed to daubt it on the tiles …………..:oops:

Your insurance agent looks the spitting image of Winston Churchill from where I'm sitting.

The "porter" is absolutely spot on.  I wonder how you knew about him ?  In the days of churn collections, there was a guy at the dairy who took the lid off every churn as it came off the lorry and sniffed the milk before forwarding said churn into the dairy for sampling, measuring and processing.

The guy was probably the milk equivalent of a tea taster.  He could smell something untoward from a mile away.  It was sometimes a problem in the summer when the churns could have spent 2 hours or more on the collection lorry in full sun. 10 gallons of "off milk" in their main holding tank could ruin a whole day's supply.

As I have a vested interest in this build, I'm following it closely.   To date, it's looking well up to your usual standards.  :thumbs:thumbs

Hi Max and Phil

I see what you mean about the brightness Phil


Here is a before and after with after being my attempt using Elements……which I guess is what I should have done in the first place although after seems to have got uncropped:roll::oops:






As long as I am not boring folk I will continue plugging away……I do appreciate the comments and advice

Regarding image size I have always stored my images in the forum gallery. So I resize them to meet the gallery requirements although I find they dont object if I resize to 1024 x 846 rather than 800x600……I think you told me this was ok Max?

Best wishes and thanks again for the feed back

[user=1681]Silver Fox[/user] wrote:

what ever size they are good, and Igree with John about the collets lovely loco`s,
:thumbs;-):cool:
Owen

Thanks Owen…..glad you liked them:thumbs

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

The "porter" is absolutely spot on.  I wonder how you knew about him ?  In the days of churn collections, there was a guy at the dairy who took the lid off every churn as it came off the lorry and sniffed the milk before forwarding said churn into the dairy for sampling, measuring and processing.

The guy was probably the milk equivalent of a tea taster.  He could smell something untoward from a mile away.  It was sometimes a problem in the summer when the churns could have spent 2 hours or more on the collection lorry in full sun. 10 gallons of "off milk" in their main holding tank could ruin a whole day's supply.

Thank you so much for that insight Peter…….I was sheer happenchance. I have done some research into how the milk got to and from rail served dairies but know very little about what went on inside. I doubt if I am going to be quite so lucky twice so I suspect the chimneys and vents I have just painstakingly inserted into the now completed roof will be totally unrealistic:roll:

As I have a vested interest in this build, I'm following it closely.   To date, it's looking well up to your usual standards.  :thumbs:thumbs  

   As you can tell the pressure is mounting!

It certainly looks better, John.

I'm only relying on my ageing memory regarding the sizing.  The Gallery has a kind of self protect built in for oversize uploads.

I'm pretty sure the recommended size is/was 800 x 600, but there is a bit of lee way.  If 1024 x 800 gets through, that's good.

Try the biggest size you can get away with, I say.

On another matter . . .

Phil, would you be prepared to collect your instructions for using focus stacking into a thread?

I'd like to give it a go from start to finish.  Ta

Max, I am no expert, I can only say what works well for me, I can open a new thread explaining what I do if it would help anyone?

Phil

That would be lovely, Phil.

I'm keen to have a crack at it.

That would be a great idea Phil.....thank you::lol:

I've just checked the "Photography" section, Max already has a thread "Focus Stacking" which basically explains the process, there's really very little I could add by opening another thread?

Phil

I understand that you sharpen each image before you run the FS programme and do some other stuff as well, Phil

Yes but that's pretty basic stuff, just a slight sharpen as overdoing it makes an un-natural look, after FS, if areas need extra sharpening or lightening/darkening etc they are isolated ie. marching ants or Paths and then worked on but each picture is different, sometimes no extra work is needed, sometimes where the backscene runs out then this is filled in with the clone tool etc.

Phil

So, just to confirm, you sharpen slightly each image in the stack before running the Helicon?

Yes, just a smidgen and then correct overall levels/colour balance and individual area levels later if needed.

Phil

Thanks, Phil.  I'll give it a go.

Max, you must have quite a lot of pictures on Photobucket for them to ask you for money, it's currently 1GB apparently the new Photobucket is 3GB.

Phil

It was a while ago, Phil.  Maybe they're being more generous now.

You may know that I have an UltraBB forum, and I host my photos on there - so I do the same here.

My Gallery is built on the same coding as this one.  There are considerable losses during uploads.  Sometimes I'm distressed to see a beautiful clear photo once it's been uploaded.

Photobucket would definitely be a better choice.

Sorry for the thread hyjack John :???:

Phil