Calendar competition

 Written by: georgemc


Good points about the horizontal and vertical cropping and resolution - thanks all. Will cogitate on that some more, but the intent is to create a calendar, and hopefully most people know what a calendar normally looks like so can plan their images appropriately.

 Written by: Entheogen


I fully understand the no photoshop rule. I know a guy who can create photos with the craziest looking fire patterns- of course there's absolutely no fire involved, its all pasted/painted on. When there's a no photoshop rule, period, there won't be people looking at the end product saying, 'yeah, but that's probably faked anyway'.

 Written by: georgemc

Very hard to word a rule to allow people to edit for brightness etc but not add effects.

 Written by: the_mods_stole_my_name


this may sound silly, but does it have to be a pic of just one spinner? could it be a group of people doing their thing, like at a meet?

 Written by: Entheogen

But isn't using photoshop more of less synonymous with doing graphic art on a photo? I mean, editing something out can use the exact same methods as painting something in, so where is the line actually drawn?

I don't know where to draw the line. This is a forever ongoing discussion in photography forums. And I can submit pics to this particular competition without editing like this. But here is an example of a pic that I recently took and how I edited it. I edited out a piece of the slackrope and 2 small dots of light coming through the background fabric. And I still consider this photography. But like I said this kind of editing isn't necessary.

 Written by: Faithinfire

what about red eye?

Try to ignore it, its just a by-product of getting stoned

 Written by: TheWibbler


It's much nicer than pshop anyhoo

blasphemy!

who would speak out against the adobegod?!??!

stone the heretic!




cole. x

 Written by: Ze_Bubbles


i have some wicked ideas for this when im in france but my problem is a) im stupid, will a phone camera have enough resolution - mine is 3.2 megap.....?

what if i dont have a fancy camera whats the best way of getting the pic and being at least the minimum quality?

 Written by: TheWibbler


You can strtch a 3Mpix image to 5Mpix by using proper printing software, it uses fractals to determin what the missing pixels should be and works amazingly well.

i wouldn't say extremely well (although a 3Mp to 5Mp enlargement might not be *too* bad).

most printers would use hardware interpolation, not software i reckon - similar to what is used inside a high-resolution scanner.

quality of results depend on the content in my experience - its okay for enlarging very low res pixel stuff but i think its more than noticable on photos and it often has lots of trouble with text and other straight lines.


on the gimp v photoshop thing, i was only having a laugh to be honest
i only ever used photoshop 7 on a pc and moved directly to cs2 since i turned mac - i've never even used the gimp so i can't really comment at all.

i rarely use any of the advanced features and am really a lightweight photoshop user - pretty much only need it for image conversion, photo adjustment, scanning and so on.

i have to say i like the fact that adobe took the file browser out of photoshop and made bridge (but that's probably because i use photoshop, illustrator and indesign - if it could preview quark files too i'd be an even happier bunny but it'll never do that!).
i use it to manage my image library too.
why do you say its dodgy?

not sure the script-fu thing does it for me as i'm not a coder and far more important to me is photoshop's colour handling and tablet support (or does gimp supprt tablets now?).


cole. x