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#291583 - 20/12/2006 02:46 Interesting Buttefly I Saw in Mexico
tanstaafl. carpal tunnel Registered: 08/07/1999 Posts: 5549 Loc: Ajijic, Mexico	Attached is a small segment of a picture I took today of a butterfly known here in Mexico as La Bruja ("Witch"). This butterfly was over six inches wingtip to wingtip, and I was told by our B&B hostess that this was a small one -- some of them are twice the size. I'd attach the picture of the whole butterfly, but the file is too large. tanstaafl Attachments 292247-Butterfly.jpg (193 downloads) _________________________ "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
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#291584 - 20/12/2006 03:08 Re: Interesting Buttefly I Saw in Mexico [Re: tanstaafl.]
RobotCaleb pooh-bah Registered: 15/01/2002 Posts: 1866 Loc: Austin	That is awesome. I could host the full for you or you could try imageshack or one of those other free photo-hosting services.
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#291585 - 20/12/2006 15:41 Re: Interesting Buttefly I Saw in Mexico [Re: tanstaafl.]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31601 Loc: Seattle, WA	Quote: I'd attach the picture of the whole butterfly, but the file is too large. SIGH Some people just can't figure out how to use the resize/resample features in their image editing applications... _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#291586 - 20/12/2006 16:16 Re: Interesting Buttefly I Saw in Mexico [Re: tfabris]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	He's on vacation Tony! He should have brought Photoshop and made a montage. _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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#291587 - 23/12/2006 12:56 Re: Interesting Buttefly I Saw in Mexico [Re: hybrid8]
FireFox31 pooh-bah Registered: 19/09/2002 Posts: 2494 Loc: East Coast, USA	Some cameras do seem to have limited crop and edit functionality, but each brand's approach is different. Wouldn't it be nice if camara makers licensed a portable version of Photoshop for use on location? Same interface on all cameras, same features you use (for simple editing) at home. Port it to run on the camera's firmware and you're good to go. Nah, Photoshop wouldn't be suitable. But for an independant software shop, this could be a gold mine. _________________________ - FireFox31 110gig MKIIa (30+80), Eutronix lights, 32 meg stacked RAM, Filener orange gel lens, Greenlights Lit Buttons green set
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#291588 - 23/12/2006 19:46 Re: Interesting Buttefly I Saw in Mexico [Re: FireFox31]
DWallach carpal tunnel Registered: 30/04/2000 Posts: 3810	Quote: a portable version of Photoshop for use on location? Given the UI feature overload that is any modern point-and-shoot camera, it's hard to imagine how you could make this work. Remember, back in the ancient days, when some Kodak cameras supported external applications? These days, you'd probably do that with J2ME or something, but it might still not be the right way to go. (Also, camera vendors are desperate to offer any feature that might differentiate them from their peers, as opposed to having another licensing cost that further strains their negligible profit margins.) What I think might be better would be a tighter coupling between iPhoto/Picasa/whatever else and your web browser, such that when I'm staring at a post editing form, like the one I'm using now, I can flip over to Picasa, press one button, and it resizes/scales the picture, posts it on the web somewhere, and places the URL in the cut buffer surrounded by the proper IMG tags (which, naturally, vary from one board to the next).
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#291589 - 10/01/2007 01:22 Re: Interesting Buttefly I Saw in Mexico [Re: RobotCaleb]
tanstaafl. carpal tunnel Registered: 08/07/1999 Posts: 5549 Loc: Ajijic, Mexico	Quote: That is awesome. I could host the full for you or you could try imageshack or one of those other free photo-hosting services. I'm back from Mexico and have a more reliable internet connection now, so I can finally link to the pictures that you so kindly hosted for me. Pictures I'm particularly pleased with the picture of the dragonfly. tanstaafl. _________________________ "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
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