up left- View of the outskirts of Brussels from the outside of a metro station along one of the main streets at dusk. low left- one of them churches... we saw so many, gonna take awhile to be able to figure which was which all over again. up right- Belgium is really famous for their chocolates, and here we can see a chocolate shop worker getting a little carried away with the wares for sale. low right- one of the most incredible sights in all of europe, watching 15 little 90 year old ladies making handmade lace (what Bruges is REALLY famous for). The one closest to the camera, handmade lace of about that size, when completed, will have had well over 90 hours of work put into it. Their hands just go completely mental, and i swear they are able to do this at lightning speed even when they aren't looking at what they're doing.

left- Ally feeding 3 of the 14 swans we managed to coax into the smallest canal bridge in the town of bruges. It was a mind blowing site. Swans favourite food seems to be grass rolled up, and they'll eat right out of your hands (I was bitten 3 times actually). up right- view of some buiuldings along a Bruges canal at night, I like them purty lights. low right- what happens when an ectoplasmic being enters your camera with mischief on the mind.

up left- Would be Ally trying to figure her way around the wonderful city of amsterdam, while I'm being very unhelpful obviously... up right- one of the smaller not so cool as the others, windmills in Zaanse Schans, I nearly jumped in the local town river (looked sorta refreshing), until i saw this 8 year jumping in and he had a bad rash all over his leg... low left- little view of an area of Zaanse Schans. ducks are cool. low right- all over europe, there are these strange automobiles called "Smart Cars", and they're so flippin tiny it's maddening. They look strange, but parking is never an issue with them.

copying... that's how I used to do bas-relief without having to pay for getting my negatives duplicated... nyce.

there are plugins that generate loopy textures on their own, but there isn't a plugin (to my, and likely retro's knowledge) that will take a graphic file (be it psd, tif, bmp, etc) and magically make it a looping texture on its own. If you want a texture that is loopable/tiling from the get go, you have to make tiling/loopable on your own. of course, someone prove me wrong, as this would make life much easier...

this is crazy crazy stuff! Didja solarize the whole roll, or during the paper's exposure? what's the "etc" if i may ask as well?

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sRGB is a primarily web ready colour space, and I wouldnt recommend its use for anything but.. When Photoshop loads, it loads its own colour gamut, so everything will look different in photoshop when comp[ared to any other softwqre or on the web. An easy way to get a matching colour space would be to open both preferences up at the same time, and match'em up.

Photoshop 7 is a power hungry program, and it's been optimized for Windows XP I believe. Windows 98SE, while better than 98, and also better than ME in my opinion, doesn't compare to 2000 or XP. The latter two can multitask a lot better, and distribute and clean your Ram more efficiently. another question would be how much RAM do you have installed on your AMD box? Also, is it an AMD Duron, or an AMD Athlon/Athlon XP? Keep in mind that Photoshop 7 requires a lot of horsepower, and while it will certainly function more than adequately on your computer, and even my old 400Mhz AMD computer, it will run a lot slower depending on your RAM and your CPU (primarily that is). While it worked on my old computer, it worked just barely, so I kept Photoshop 6.o until I got my massive upgrades. I hope that helps, et excuse moi s'il vouz plaitez, mes mon francais on n'est pas tres bon, mais je comprende votre question je pense. ry

nawp, he's been back for a little while now...

Tablets are recognized as "Human Interface Devices", and when plugging the tablet in, that should be the first thing that pops up (without the Wacom drivers installed). With this, the tablet should function as a simple pointer, no pressure sensitivity or pointer acceleration. If you can, try installing the drivers without the tablet being plugged in. Ad if all else fails, this is not the place to awsk, email wacom technical services, Leanne Tresch (the person who will likely be responding to you) is second to none in my books for tech support.

1: email the company for some basic tech support (I assume the scanner has some sort of model name and number on it). 2: ask the film scanning pros here for help. 3: don't leave anyways. just cuz you may not upload photos don't mean u gotta leave for good. I haven't posted a photo in over a year I believe, never stopped me from posting (under other names, b/pm is a new one).

I believe a quote from the venerable Eric Cartman will sum this situation up, "Balls man, balls...."

the clone tool is your best friend, smudging makes things blurred and undefined, and ruins details. Either way, great touchups, and all looks good on this end now.

i prefer the community of the forum personally.