Just read this about the tornados! Itäs unbelievable, you see we don't normally have tornados here in Sweden, now we actually had one a couple of weeks ago but I'll come to that...

Anyway I'm SOO HAPPY to hear that the Tennesee-ans are safe and sound, treydoggie mALXie....jeez sweeties!

And I'm so sorry to hear about Alabama...Ricky, you all are in my thoughts! I pray for you..


Well the thing is i heard about the little tornado that hit the road between my work and my home ythree hours after it passed. I went home earlier that day so I actually missed the whole thing! Trees across the road, all kinds of rubbish spread..and the roof of a storage building at the harbor was just ripped off!


POWERFUL STUFF!

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My son's Senior Prom pic:






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This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 30 2011, 01:49 AM

I'm amazed at the damage in the South All those tornadoes hitting big cities like that. Its terrible I'm glad to see everyone here is alive. Hopefully no more storms pass through anywhere.




Oh my...

His hair!! Its so long! And the little curls at the end...!

Hey that's from '07 so we graduated same year

Whoah. Didn't know about the storm hitting the South till I went over here! Glad to know that Chorrol-members from the South are ok! Whew!

mALX, your son looks absolutely handsome! Wow!

.. Wish we had proms here in Jap.

Oh, wait. We do, albeit in a different way.

Thanks Ureniashtram and Jacki !! Er...I just took that pic yesterday, the date is wrong on it (and on all the pics of my pets) - I haven't figured out how to fix that yet, but I finally figured out how to turn it off from showing on the pics. I have to photoshop the date off there. If anyone knows the best way to do that, I would appreciate it.

Camera brand and model? It is a menu setting in most. (Date/Time On or Off).

In Photoshop, best bet is to use the Cloning tool.

Pick background spot that looks similar and brush over date stamp.

Pick different selections to make it look "right."

I have used that on Morrowind screenshots to get rid of menus and magic effect icons.

Oooh !! Thanks, Treydog !!! It is a Samsung S630. I found the menu and changed the date, can't seem to get it down to the time to fix that - but I noticed several entries where people complained that the date reset every time the batteries were removed. Since I remove the batteries after every use, I would just have to keep adjusting it before taking the shots and may miss a good one playing with it. I thought it best to turn off that feature, lol.

mALX - Congratulations on your son's graduation! He looks very nice is his tux and top-hat! I LOVE the top-hat! And is that his real hair? It's longer and thicker than mine! (If my hubby grew his out, it would be thicker than mine, too... Men have all the luck! ) Well, he looks good, dear! I bet you're proud of him! (Oh god, my boy is just a baby, but 18 years will go by so fast! I'm already tearing up just thinking about it!)

That is his hair. And when we were in the tux shop and he stepped out of the dressing room I teared up too. (embarrassing him in front of all his friends, most likely, lol). The first day of school seeing them walk into the school - same thing.

Eighteen years - it seems like it will never get there, but then suddenly feels like it has flown by. And it really has.

Something simpler than cloning. Any graphics program (including Photoshop) will give you a cropping tool. Just crop it from a horizontal rectangle to a vertical one, get rid of all the background to either side of your son, and have him fill the frame more. After all, you're taking a photo of him, not of the lovely frame building to his right or the dog pen to his left. He should be the brightest thing in that photograph.

Just my two drakes.

Heh, MS paint can do that, I do it all the time with Oblivion screens.

You would have to be careful not to lose the awesome cane if/when you crop it.

This post has been edited by King Coin: May 1 2011, 03:12 AM

Thanks !! I have "Paint" - (not very talented on it; an example is my avatar. I did the blindfold, lol)


I like that cane too, it really added to the effect.

Is it even possible to be talented with Paint?

That thing is worthless to me now. I use IrfanView, Paint.NET, and GIMP for all my imaging and texturing needs. Those are some pretty good tools, as well.

- Irfanview is used to prepare images to be uploaded to the Webz.

- Paint.NET is used for basic texturing work.

- GIMP is used for the more serious texturing work.

I have no use for Paint anymore except to fool around.

MS Paint is actually one heck of a program, man. Want proof?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iSPqXqcuWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7JHQMDO-w...feature=related

That right there is a guy talented with MS Paint. So yes, it is possible to be talented with MS P.

On a side note, PSN is having some serious problems. The worst thing is that I can't sign in! That means no COD M.W 2! No! Oh, well. No skin off my teeth.

Just another example (though ureniashtram's were great) I've had this image on my hard drive for a couple of years. I don't know where I found it, it's not mine.

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2024/applenn.jpg

OMG! Those were drawn using MS Paint? I can't even draw "polarbears in a snow storm" using that program!

Seriously, though - I suck at using it. I can draw fairly well with pencil and paper, and paint in RL, but MS Paint is not my forte! lol

Here ya go mALX....date gone...



Gotta love Photoshop

That is AWESOME Rick !!! How did you do that? I may have to get photoshop, I have pics of my dogs up on my web page that need the dates taken off. Are the instructions to do that easy enough that you could ... type them on here? Or copy and paste them? GAAAAH !!!

Photoshop is a massive (and expensive) program. If you were to get the program, I would highly recommend going to Barnes & Noble and buying a companion book. There are several good titles...one of which is Classroom in a Book for whatever version of Photoshop you have. The CIB books are actually published by Adobe, the company that made the program.

But to answer your question, there is a feature in the program called clone stamp, which allows you to take nearby pixels and "stamp" them over the undesired area.

A much easier solution for you might be to crop the photos. Almost any digital editing program (like MS Paint) has this feature. The date stamp is usually low enough in the photo that you can lop off the bottom 1/8 of the photo to get rid of the date stamp and still have a nice photo. However, in the photo of your son, cropping would eliminate his gloved hand from the photo.

This post has been edited by TheOtherRick: May 1 2011, 05:50 PM

"Why does your dog have only three legs?" ROFL !!! Thank you so much Rick, I may try playing with cropping them, that may be more to my speed then. It sounds like Photoshop would end up being another "Wrye-Bash" in my hands, ROFL !!!