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About Me Member Landscape Photographer Pete31/Male/United Kingdom Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Months
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Moving house sucks. Living in a bigger house FTW!

Mon Jul 20, 2009, 2:19 AM
Well, last weekend we moved house... I hate moving so damn much! I can't begin to explain my hatred for cardboard packing boxes right now... I did get to drive around in a big van for a few hours though. And our new place is amazing.

Still.. lots of unpacking to do.. maybe in a few weeks I'll get out with the camera again.. fingers crossed!

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  • Listening to: Black Sabbath (on Planet Rock)
  • Reading: Emails
  • Watching: Files copy.. yawn...
  • Eating: Skinny Peach Muffin
  • Drinking: Latte, with lots of vanilla powder.

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  • Current Residence: UK
  • Interests: Photography (duh), tennis, movies, reading, politics, beer, food, walking, travelling... lots
  • Favourite movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf
  • Favourite band or musician: So many... anything from Iron Maiden to The Orb.
  • Favourite genre of music: See above, I have an eclectic taste!
  • Favourite artist: Cezanne
  • Favourite poet or writer: George Orwell
  • Favourite style of art: Photography
  • Operating System: Leopard
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod of some description
  • Shell of choice: Bash
  • Skin of choice: Banana?
  • Favourite game: Monkey Island series, Half Life series, GTA: Vice City
  • Favourite gaming platform: Xbox 360? Don't have much time for games anymore.
  • Favourite cartoon character: Foghorn Leghorn
  • Tools of the Trade: Nikon D80 , various lenses, filters, etc etc

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~SMCGRANE Aug 12, 2009, 3:37:52 AM
Thanks again for your help with Stormy sky, and for your comment and the fav on Ever Changing Sky 3 - had some good days weather wise, so been out and about with the camera a lot this last week - that picture was one of dozens I snapped whilst picnicking there, with the family - I loved the way the sky was reflected and how it changed every few minutes.

Going to be hard for me to get out over the next week or so, and I know I'll be frustrated at getting no photo-taking time - a friend is getting married on Sat, and has asked me to do the photo's - I have done a wedding before, and I know full well, I'll be spending a lot of time editing over the following couple of weeks, and won't have time for any trips with the camera:( Still, its all experience, I guess, and I'll learn that little bit more, so can't complain, lol.

Suexx
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~SMCGRANE Aug 11, 2009, 11:53:00 AM
OK - I THINK I have it right, lol - resized it in photoshop, then edited it on here and set size to the width dimension 1280px...........managed to just change the image on the last upload of it I did, rather than upload as a new pic yet again:)

Cheers for your patience with me over this!

Suexx
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~SMCGRANE Aug 11, 2009, 11:41:26 AM
Lol - just going to have a bash at it now:)Hopefully will update the pic within the next 20 mins:)

Suexx
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Mood: Lmao ~SMCGRANE Aug 10, 2009, 2:36:21 AM
Lolololol - you must be soooooo fed up of me!!!!!

Right - tried to edit it, and now when I click on full view, image dimensions are
3250 x 2430, and the pic comes up HUGE on full view - so now I'm thinking, have I gone too far, LMAO!

Again - really appreciate your help - sorry I'm so slow in getting it right!

Suexx
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~MilesPortent Aug 10, 2009, 2:40:27 AM
Just replied to the previous message with hopefully the correct info... it was my bad, not yours :)
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~SMCGRANE Aug 10, 2009, 2:17:22 AM
Thanks for the info, Pete:)

OK, opened it in Photoshop, and saved for web - its now 3.34 megabytes, as opposed to the 1.42 of before.............will try uploading it to DA again, and go for the full view.

Appreciate you taking the time to explain:)

Suexx
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~MilesPortent Aug 10, 2009, 2:25:16 AM
Hehe, it's ok :)
Looks like your last attempt is still 600×449 and I'm pretty sure that it's DevArt doing this when you're submitting the image. I haven't uploaded anything in a while but I'm sure after you upload a picture (but before you submit it) you can choose the Full View resolution and one of the options is "Do not change" or something like that.

Give that a go! :D
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~SMCGRANE Aug 10, 2009, 12:05:06 AM
Thanks for the fav:)And thank you for the comment - Have tried to upload a bigger image - hope I've done it right, lol -if not, feel free to give me idiot proof step by step instructions - I'm not too cleaver technically, so all help is very welcome, lol

Suexx
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~MilesPortent Aug 10, 2009, 2:39:40 AM
Looks like you've almost got it, though the 3rd attempt version is at 3250×2430 which is the original size straight off the camera :) It's my bad, for some reason I thought that you could resize the image in the Save for Web option.

What you need to do is change the image size in Photoshop before doing the Save for Web, you can do this under the Image menu at the top, and then choosing Image Size. You can change the image width/height in pixels here, I usually use 1280x1024 for my pics when submitting to websites.

Sorry for not mentioning this before, don't have Photoshop at work so it's hard to memorise everything!
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~MilesPortent Aug 10, 2009, 1:16:20 AM
Looks like it's still the same res to me (600×449).
What res is the original? When you upload a file to DevArt I think there's an option called "Full View" or something where you can choose what the full resolution of an uploaded image is (by default I think it optimises most images to a lower res than the original - if you've been shooting in RAW mode on the camera then resolutions will be very high indeed).

I use Photoshop to process my images, then use the Save For Web function to convert them to JPEG and a sensible resolution (usually 1280x1024 or 1024x768 for DevArt).

Hope this helps!

Pete x
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