Same here, I'm reluctant to upload some photos to sites where they are online and available to the public because I don't want people to steal and use some of my photos . I have others that I don't mind other people using, but some photos I intend to use in ebooks and other things being created for sale. I have been reluctant to use watermarks because watermarks that splash across an image detract from the image itself, and watermarks placed in a corner etc where they don't detract from the image, are too easily excluded by anyone who copies and crops the photo.
2 2010-09-10 15:44:48
Re: Taking baby photo (3 replies, posted in Bright ideas)
You could make a morphing age regression app that lets you take two adults and virtually create an image of what their baby may look like, the way Luxand Babymaker does. So far, it has no competition at all yet, I've never seen anything else like it.
It could use a good competitor, one which offers more variation since Luxand's app only has a very limited range of racial characteristics available in their app, the majority of races, Native American, Middle Eastern, Chinese, Indonesian, etc not included.
3 2010-09-10 15:40:08
Re: photo editor & cloning (8 replies, posted in Photo! Editor)
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i think i know it...... i got mine with my camera for the pc "ulead, photo express" i have it and yes this shit works like a charm......lol
You're right, its Ulead Photo Express 2.0, I got it when I bought a scanner back in 1998 and have had to use it ever since then for cloning(copying and pasting selected areas of a photo to other areas). I've never yet found anything else that can do this so I STILL continue to have to use Ulead Photo Express 2.0 from 1998, for that purpose. I'm surprised that even after 12 years, there's nothing else like its cloning ability out there.
4 2010-09-10 15:34:44
Re: Problem saving the Photo (4 replies, posted in Photo editing: most common problems and quick solutions)
I replied this topic earlier, but my reply has STILL not shown up after plenty of time and many refreshes of the page. According to the site, the reply had been successfully processed (and what's the purpose of asking people who reply to answer childish grade school level questions? Anyone who mentally isn't capable of answering such questions wouldn't mentally be able to figure out how to use a forum in the first place! Those questions seem totally pointless except for annoying the posters.)
To add to my reply, I was using Pho.to! Editor that is installed on my Vista machine but I've had the blank white page save problem happen on my XP machines too. I've informed the developer in the past about this problem, including accompanying screenshots, several times in the past.
5 2010-09-10 15:27:17
Re: Retouching portrait images. Automatic high-grade methods (16 replies, posted in Retouching portrait photos)
I wish you'd make a portable offline version of your online photo apps because many times I don't have access to the internet when I'm working on editing photographs & at those times I've wanted very much to be able to use apps such as Makeup Photo and was frustrated that it isn't available offline.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who has to do much of their photo editing work offline. I know many people who only have internet connection when they're at school or work, not at home and making your tools available offline would mean people aren't restricted to only being able to use them at times when they're at school or work or the library AND at times when they have enough time on the school, work, or library computer to be able to edit photos before their time is up and its time for the next user to take a turn.
There are MANY areas of the USA where most people don't have internet access at home, for instance most homes on Indian Reservations don't have internet access or cable tv or other such amenities that many of the rest of us take for granted. Yet children on the rez will be assigned homework to do online which means going to the library or school computer and waiting in line to try to get a chance to get online. Adults in such places often can only get online by going to the library and hoping that with all the school kids and other adults needing to get online, that they get a turn too. People download things at the library and take them home to use on their own computers, providing they even have a computer. After all, in places such as the rez, you will even see plenty of people still using the old wringer washing machines and drying their laundry on a clothesline even in wintertime! In most parts of the country, people have never even SEEN an old wringer washing machine!
6 2010-09-10 15:06:35
Topic: Problem with forums when using Firefox browser (2 replies, posted in General forum)
Has anyone else had the problem of firefox attempting to start a download of a php file when trying to open up forum pages?
Sometimes firefox opened pages correctly, other times when I clicked on a forum thread or topic to view it, firefox would open up its downloader for me to confirm to download and save a php file, instead of properly opening the forum page.
I finally had to switch back to using IE8, whereupon the site forgot I was logged in and made me relogin again even though I had checked the option to have the site always remember me!
Also, I started a new thread earlier while using Firefox, which worked correctly that time & I posted a reply to a couple of threads, NONE of my topics and none of my posts show at all. In fact, the dates of the last posts on those pages I was replying too, showed August dates.
Why didn't my new topic or my replies to others topics show up at all. I reloaded and refreshed the page several times in BOTH Firefox and IE8, this is on a Vista Home Premium laptop...none of my posts show up at all, its as if they and my new topic never existed!!!
7 2010-09-10 14:55:12
Re: Problem saving the Photo (4 replies, posted in Photo editing: most common problems and quick solutions)
I've run into this with Pho.to! editor ever since I began using a few years ago. The photo looks like it saves as a blank but if you check its properties, you will see it saves as a 1 x 1 pixel image!
I've reported this bug before, several times.
Pho.to! editor does this randomly, I've never been able to find any kind of pattern in when it chooses to save a photo as a blank appearing page with the image properties being 1 x 1 pixel size.
It happens often enough that after the first few times I used the program and lost photos when I directed the program to just save and overwrite the original, that I never overwrite originals anymore because the risk of losing the original is so great.
Sometimes I can edit a bunch of photos and it won't do this blank page save. Other times, it does the blank instead of properly saving the image, every few photos.
It doesn't seem to be affected by size of photo being saved, lightness or darkness of photo being saved, amount of editing that's been done on the photo whether a lot or very little, number of photos you've edited in your session, it happens in both XP and Vista, on pcs with a lot of disk space and plenty of RAM and on pcs with very little disk space and skimpy RAM.
This bug in saving photos as just blank white pages with properties being 1 x 1 when you check properties in file details, happens totally randomly & its frustrated me for years.
I would LOVE to see this bug fixed too!
8 2008-12-22 18:49:55
Re: Let's play! ;) (17 replies, posted in Share your digital world!)
Second time around, the photo saved perfectly without doing the 1 x 1 bug thing. But I don't see any way to upload the photo to post it!
9 2008-12-22 18:33:54
Re: Let's play! ;) (17 replies, posted in Share your digital world!)
I almost had a picture of the sky to send you, but it ended up getting sent as the "after" photo in a bug report instead.
10 2008-12-22 18:10:35
Re: photo editor & cloning (8 replies, posted in Photo! Editor)
I would love to see Photo! Editor have a feature that I had in an ancient 1998 photo program that came with a scanner. In that program it was possible to copy a selection and move it and merge it into a different area of the photo. Thus if I had photographed a text page and part of the background was dark instead of white, I could cut a white section from another area and put it into the dark area where I needed to correct the shadow. I've not seen a program since then that would do this. That program would also clone with either regular or airbrush. It was called something Express 2.0 but as I said it was a program that came with a scanner that I bought in 1998. I've looked ever since for something with those capabilities. This program wasn't a complicated program either, very simple, no layers etc.
11 2008-12-22 18:05:34
Re: bugs in Photo Editor 1.1 (15 replies, posted in Photo! Editor)
There is one big bug I've found in the current pho to editor. Randomly, when I save an edited photo, it will save with 1 x1 dimensions instead of correctly saving the pic. It does this often enough that I back up all pics I'm editing because I never know when it will save it as the 1 x 1.
I did email a bug report earlier, with the bug image attached. I should mention that the picture which was being saved was a pic originally 1145 x 1280 pixels, that I was reducing in size by 50 percent, then I saved it and the 1 x 1 bug resulted. In retrospect, I probably should have sent a copy of the original photo that I was reducing but from the info here about its dimensions and percentage I was reducing it, you can see that even when reduced, the photo was much larger than the 1 x 1 the program reduced it to when saving it.
12 2008-12-22 17:58:40
Re: Redeye removal for dogs, cats etc (4 replies, posted in Photo! Editor)
There IS a way to do it manually, using the healing brush in makeup tools if you have a suitable color to use that is located elsewhere in the photo. You can right click on the suitable color and then left click on the area to be fixed and follow the healing process instructions to modify the red eye this way.