 | | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this? Some more photography basics —Holger Matthes
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| | | Hello! I'm happy that this issue seems to be an issue which is starting to be discussed here and elsewhere at 1000steine. There have been some valueable informations in this thread concerning online pictures of MOCs. To show your great MOCs online (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | | | | Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Holger Matthes
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| | | | | Hello, while surfing Brickshelf recent galleries another "highlight" could be found: An broken, 3504x2336 picture! (URL) No, your computer isn't broken, the picture someone uploaded was allready broken before uploading or brickshelf broke it ... The (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | | | (...) Hi Holger, Your request may not be heard. Most of the people uploading such junk, whether it's out of focus, poorly lit, too low or too high resolution pictures are mostly kids who don't read Lugnet...it might be better if you posted this on (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Holger Matthes
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Hi Calum, yes, I know. Most of the users which really should read this are not acitve on lugnet or 1000steine. But I do not have the time to go to all other forums to do my missionary work. Jojo did a good job while linking my gallery here at (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) This would be a horrible idea. It would be so abuseable to delete pictures from people that for some reason are disliked, or content that someone objects to. Can you imagine how quickly Brendan Powell Smith's Bible pictures would be voted (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Holger Matthes
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I agree. But there could be a voting without consequences, like at mocpages. One category could be "artwork and presentation". So blurry pics could cause a "negative" vote. (...) If the photographer takes both overview and detailed pics there (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) [...] (...) Hi Holger, Don't forget that some users use BS as a storing facility for their own needs or just to exchange stuffs with friends...and not for the pleasure of the "spectator" you are. But this thread is a great one and I agree most (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Yep. That's part of it. I'm pushing those pictures out in part to have an additional backup (I'm horrible at writing CDs for backup, but if I have a copy of my pictures on BrickShelf, on my work laptop, and on my home computer, I've got a lot (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Kelly McKiernan
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I notice a number of sample "bad" images are Bionicle-related, not surprising given the number of BZPower members using Brickshelf. This is an ongoing education issue for BZP, and one that we are constantly trying to educate the younger (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Holger Matthes
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Hi Kelly, I do not say that there are only BZPower "kids" uploading problematic pics at brickshelf. I know a huge number of AFOL galleries (ok, the content seems to be build by an AFOL) which could be improved. I am not that familiar with (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) No, that was my fault. I implied that. Sorry Holger. Calum (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I would've thought the most logical place to put an article about how best to upload pictures to Brickshelf, would be on the front page of Brickshelf itself. May I suggest to Holger that he emails a cut down version of the post at the top of (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Kelly McKiernan
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Agreed. However, I would think if it would ever be there, it would have already been put up. In my conversations with Kevin from a couple of BrickFests ago, he indicated a desire to keep text to a minimum and allow the content to be the main (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Manfred Moolhuysen
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| | | | | | | | (...) I have now idea if it's practicly feasable, but maybe have a text file automaticly uploaded in every new brickshelf acount, containing basic reccomondations plus a link to more extensive information, would be another chanel to educate at least (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | If brickshelf were to completely ban BMP files, that would be a good start... (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) Or auto-convert them to JPG when they are uploaded. But that takes lotsa CPU cycles. Steve (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | | | | (...) NO! Imagine people putting up sticker scans, which you'd want as sharp as possible for reprinting. Using JPEG and having them scaled would kill the details there. Why not educate the clueless user instead of killing features power users might (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Bad examples are getting worse :-( —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) I never said anything about scaling the image. For things like sticker scans or anything else where you don't want lossy compression, there are image formats like PNG. PNG can be used just fine for anything where you don't want to loose (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this? Some more photography basics —Frank Filz
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| | | | | Holger "HoMa" Matthes wrote: Lots of great advice snipped... Though one comment - not everyone has the time or inclination to do all of this. Though certainly are a few thoughts that don't really take all that long to do. (...) This is one of the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this? Some more photography basics —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | (...) WRT to time, I think if you're prepared to spend hours building a great MOC, it's not all that much more time to prepare nice pics. Of course that falls down when it's not a great MOC or it only took a few minutes to build. Inclination is (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this? Some more photography basics —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | | Although most of your advice is sound I'd like to make one comment : You make quite a few save steps before the end result... specially with a format such as JPEG (which is what comes out of most consumer level camera's) loads of info gets lost on (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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