The Art of U g l i n e s s by abmlober

Fractal • Fractal • posted on Jul 16, 2003

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A zoom into a previous post, this time created with more time and stuff. The JPG conversion killed the red in the thin frame line and the subscript - made a brown from it. In the image itself the red is nearly as it was in the BMP base image. Is there any chance to keep red colours untouched in a JPG???

Comments (17)

gallimel

3:03AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

dear man, I dunno about what you ask but the brown to me is perfect here. It makes the strong structure be even more elegant. Just my two cents :)

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fractalchemist

4:00AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

LOL Any art well practised is well worth praise... I love it, Andy;-)))

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SimonKane

4:22AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

I like it! The rich red deep in the spirals is lovely! As for jpegs, you could try increasing the Quality factor (i.e. decrease the compression rate). I use the "Save For Web" option in Photoshop, which lets me easily preview the results of different levels of compression, but there are lots of optimising tools available. I've found that the colour fidelity (as a function of compression rate) doesn't always progress smoothly - there are often critical points where the colours drop off with just a small change. With an optimising tool, it is quite easy to find these without having to end up with an unnecessarily large file.

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KPK

5:58AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

Schaurig-sch :-) Beautifully done!

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aztek

6:36AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

Reds are always the most difficult to compress. I usually use a deeper red than I want to get the result that I want, if you know what I mean :) An excellent image, I don't know where 'ugly' comes into it!

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s31415

8:39AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

I like these tortuous shapes very much !

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kansas

9:00AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

Ugly? Well, maybe we need more of it, as I think this is beautiful.

cruelanimal

9:20AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

Still not ugly, so you'll have to try harder I guess. I like the muted colors, curved forms, and subtle elephant skin texture underneath.

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abmlober

10:02AM | Wed, 16 July 2003

This image is a part and re-work of "A Little Bit of Ugliness" that was posted before. Hence the new title :-)

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miwi

12:59PM | Wed, 16 July 2003

The ugly duckling is a beautiful swan.

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MakinMagic

1:33PM | Wed, 16 July 2003

Very nice, I prefer this to the original.

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tresamie

11:25PM | Wed, 16 July 2003

I love the organic feel to this and the colors look wonderful.

fractalinda

8:52AM | Thu, 17 July 2003

The colors, curves and clarity are wonderful, and I like the subtle texture. If you make your red more of an orange-red, it will translate better in jpeg format.

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