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Alisande - iris
Comments (2)Thanks for the thank-you, Taigen. My pleasure. You restored some of the confidence I lost this morning when I displayed my ignorance on the Iris Forum. I responded to someone who posted a question on the life cycle of the iris, giving her erroneous information. Oh, well . . . at least I take good iris pictures. :-) Chuck Chapman looks like a nice iris site. If you want other Canadian sites for comparison, you could try asking on the Iris Forum. They talk about online buying all the time, but I don't recall anything specific to Canada. Have fun ordering!...See Morealisande~Question on hooked rugs
Comments (6)Hi Candace - I wish I could be more help, but so far I haven't hung a rug. Many others do this regularly, though, so if you'd like I can post the question on a rug hooking forum I frequent. Some of the members are true experts, and I know you'll get a knowledgeable response. As for the cleaning, I've seen snow mentioned often. One method is to lay the rug face down on snow and tap it to release dirt into the snow. Others describe putting light, fluffy snow on the rug, letting it sit for a minute, and then sweeping it off. And then I found this for you: IVA'S RUG CLEANER - I have used this home-made rug cleaner for over 20 years. For Small Rug - 1 tsp. TIDE without bleach, 2 T white vinegar, 1 cup water For 2 9 x 12 Rugs - 1/2 cup TIDE without bleach, 2 cups white vinegar, 2 cups water Mix ingredients and whisk into a foam. Brush foam on rug lightly. Leave on rug overnight. Vacuum next day. Here are a couple of entries from Gene Shepherd's rug hooking blog. He gets deeply into every aspect of rug hooking. Rug Restoration (including providing support when hanging, I believe) Making a Sleeve to Hang a Rug Hope this helps. Good for you for wanting to save and display your family rugs. Susan...See MoreQuestion for Casey-nfld, Alisande, Jasdip & other photo buffs
Comments (8)Just curious about your camera settings - do you have your camera set to the highest settings? Not sure what that would translate to in Pentax syntax - but in Nikon, mine is set to Fine. I have also set the colors to "vivid". I shoot only in JPEG - I don't have the time to mess with RAW. I fiddled with it a bit, and saw no difference in what I was doing. I have both Prime and Zoom high quality Nikor lenses - the quality of the image with the prime lens is very noticable. Are your lenses new? Or are they older lenses made pre-DSLR? I know that some older lenses are compatible with the new DSLR cameras, but lack the vibration reduction of their new counterparts - and on that note - do you have the vibration (or stabilization) turned on on your lenses if applicable? Post processing makes a big difference also. I have seen some "ok" photos that had a "HDR Action" applied to them in Photoshop - and they went from OK to STUNNING!...See MoreNicole, question about that desk chair . . .
Comments (14)I just read your post. I kept the instructions and filed them with the receipt. :0) I checked the letter labels for the screws, not the same as the link posted above. I can mail you the original? or scan a copy in and post them here....? What would you like?...See More- 7 years ago
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoCopying my post from the other thread:
Alisande, After manually doing the background removal, and drawing in the part of his sleeve where his friend's plaid shirt overlapped it using Paint Shop Pro 7, I imported the image into Picasa, and then did: Fill Light, Auto Contrast, Warmify, Saturation (down), Auto Color.
Alisande is right that Picasa isn't readily available anymore and is no longer being developed or supported. Also it primarily was designed for storing and managing collections of images rather than editing them, as such its editing capabilities are rudimentary at best. However for quickly changing the overall tone, contrast, or color balance of the entire image, its simple, quick operations often produce better results than hours of tweaking color settings using more powerful tools. Because of the quick feedback and easy undo, getting the right combo of operations took less than 2 minutes.
And if Picasa is old, Paint Shop Pro 7.0 is downright archaic, I believe I purchased my copy way back in 1999. Interestingly though since it was designed to work on the equipment available way back then, on more modern equipment it can run quite fast, especially compared to modern, giant, bloated programs.
A couple of years ago a co-worker was trying to edit a campaign poster for a friend of hers who was running for clerk of courts. She was sent a image from a previous time that person ran for a different office. My co-worker tried to open the image in GIMP, and while she was waiting for that program to load all of its extensions, she asked whether I had image editing software. She emailed me the image, I opened Paint Shop Pro, loaded the image, made the asked-for changes, saved the image, and emailed it back, all before the GIMP program finished initializing itself and loading the image.
Removing the background (as in that other thread) is not too difficult, especially if you don't care what it is replaced with, as examples of more difficult editing tasks, I took the following image from the Brazil zoo:
and edited it to be this:
Or fixed this image of an aqueduct in Sicily that was blocked by the guard rail.
to be this:
Or took these two hunt images:
and combined them to make this:
A careful eye will pick out instances of trees in the background repeating in the final image.
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