Re: Remember when ... section house from snowshed
| December 23, 2007 01:51AM |
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Ah-yep - that's the one.
I had forgotten that your original was vertical (aka "portait"), and I had to add a lot of 'mysterious' black to both sides so that it would fit the horizontal (aka "landscape") format of the Screen Saver, in order to avoid just adding a 50% gray area to each side to build it up to 1600x1200 pixels. IIRC, stretching the shining rails a lot farther into the bottom of the picture than on the original took way more than one try - several hours over a day or two. Artistic license, or whatever ... A truly collaborative effort, of which the purists would probably NEVER approve since 25% of either side and 15% of the bottom is about as real as the oliphaunts in "Return of the King".
If you are using my much-modified version on your "Narrow Gauge Memories" page, I am truly flattered!
THANK YOU, and Merry Christmas!!
- El Curmudgeono muy Loco
p.s. Your enhancement to the sky is definitely an improvement, and since you have posted the picture then there's no reason for me to do so.
I had forgotten that your original was vertical (aka "portait"), and I had to add a lot of 'mysterious' black to both sides so that it would fit the horizontal (aka "landscape") format of the Screen Saver, in order to avoid just adding a 50% gray area to each side to build it up to 1600x1200 pixels. IIRC, stretching the shining rails a lot farther into the bottom of the picture than on the original took way more than one try - several hours over a day or two. Artistic license, or whatever ... A truly collaborative effort, of which the purists would probably NEVER approve since 25% of either side and 15% of the bottom is about as real as the oliphaunts in "Return of the King".
If you are using my much-modified version on your "Narrow Gauge Memories" page, I am truly flattered!
THANK YOU, and Merry Christmas!!
- El Curmudgeono muy Loco
p.s. Your enhancement to the sky is definitely an improvement, and since you have posted the picture then there's no reason for me to do so.
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