They definitely do give off a color cast. It's not something that you can notice with your eyes. Tungsten bulbs give off a low temperature (~3000K) glow, which will show up as a red cast on most digital cameras. I find the red cast from tungsten easier to correct in post processing. Occasionally I like to take a picture of something inside of my house. For real work I have 250watt 4800K bulbs. I can also calibrate white balance using a gray card.
[blockquote]It's a great move by WalMart. This gets them great press with people calling them "not evil" on Slashdot and everything, and it cost them practically NOTHING.[/blockquote]Nope. These bulbs are a perfect fit for Walmart because they are evil. They give out a nice green glow that will appear when you take a photograph of a subject lit by them. Stay as far away from these as you can and stick with tungsten bulbs.
Your forgetting one thing: Microsoft wants to sell as many of copies of it's software as possible in order to make as much dough as it can. Such a crippling would turn away media professionals from buying Vista.
But what do you define as the pre-chicken ancestor? Evolution is a slow process and the "pre-chicken ancestor" is likely not that different from a chicken.
Even well prepared food made by a good cook tastes 'off' to her if it's not loaded with that crap. Funny thing about kids, what they eat in their first few years is what they'll want to eat for their whole lives
Young kids seem to have weird taste buds. I think they mostly grow out of that kind of food.
and thanks to software from Microsoft and the like, end-users have become the most stupid people on the face of the earth. Seriously. By dumbing down the OS and making it "user-friendly", Microsoft began Melissa, which begat Code Red, which begat an entire industry just focused on trying to secure Windows.
Are you sure Microsoft wasn't just designing their software for stupid people, because they where stupid in the first place?
[blockquote]Hey, I was with you up to here, but I won't hear you dis Paintbrush, it's the best application they've ever written. Gotta be the only app they've not kitchen sinked.[/blockquote]It's an example of the laughable applications that Microsoft includes with it's operating system. Ubuntu includes Gimp and OpenOffice in the default install, why can't Microsoft include similar software?
Factor in the cost of a license for Adobe Photoshop with the digital camera. Also a developing tank for developing your own film isn't expensive. Printing only 10 pictures isn't very expensive on any medium. But if your printing only 10 pictures from hundreds than you are obviously using a machine gun approach.
To the point however, my girlfriend wants to replace her old film compact camera with a digital compact, so she asked me (more than a year ago now) to research a good digital compact for her. I have been looking at a lot of review sites and at the sample pictures and I just can't bring myself to recommend one. The chromatic aberration in almost every single digital compact I have looked at, is terrible!
Look at the CA in wide angle lenses and at the wide angle of zooms for an SLR. SLR lenses have chromatic aberrations too. Wideangle lenses for an SLR have to use a retrofocus design, more so for a dSLR which which needs shorter focal lengths for a wide angle lens.
I own a dSLR, but I still like film. Kodak Tri-X is good stuff to use for candid shots. I love the way that Ilford Delta 100 looks when printed with a high contrast filter. Fujichrome Velvia produces colorful slides that I can project onto a wall for a slideshow.
An SLR is good because it allows the lens to be changed. Different lenses open up possibilities not present on camera with a single lens. The TTL viewfinder allows for a paralax free view of the scene. Oh, and a dSLR has much better image quality than most point and shoot cameras.
My first impression of it was that it was sluggish. It feels unresponsive. Doing a sharpen has only one setting. Gaussian Blur has only one setting. The curves tool seems to suffer from a bit of lag whenever I make a change. I didn't see a levels tool.
The vast majority of image editing tutorials out there are written for photoshop. Right now the photoshop community is what is keeping it so popular. Sure they won't actually write plugins, but a larger user base might encourage commercial developers to release a native filter for the gimp.
Either way, I find the GIMP more than adequate for my needs. Pretty much every image in my pbase galleries has been edited with the GIMP.
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I prefer ramen that isn't instant. There's a place in Arlington Hights, IL that serves ramen. Yummy stuff, too bad it's not very close to my house.
They definitely do give off a color cast. It's not something that you can notice with your eyes. Tungsten bulbs give off a low temperature (~3000K) glow, which will show up as a red cast on most digital cameras. I find the red cast from tungsten easier to correct in post processing. Occasionally I like to take a picture of something inside of my house. For real work I have 250watt 4800K bulbs. I can also calibrate white balance using a gray card.
[blockquote]It's a great move by WalMart. This gets them great press with people calling them "not evil" on Slashdot and everything, and it cost them practically NOTHING.[/blockquote]Nope. These bulbs are a perfect fit for Walmart because they are evil. They give out a nice green glow that will appear when you take a photograph of a subject lit by them. Stay as far away from these as you can and stick with tungsten bulbs.
Your forgetting one thing: Microsoft wants to sell as many of copies of it's software as possible in order to make as much dough as it can. Such a crippling would turn away media professionals from buying Vista.
But what do you define as the pre-chicken ancestor? Evolution is a slow process and the "pre-chicken ancestor" is likely not that different from a chicken.
Doing so you would go up against air resistance. You won't be going 7.5km/s for very long.
Have you used KDE? It's like a carbon copy of the windows desktop. Except Konqueror is soo much better than Internet Explorer.
I will never stop piping cat! If I want to do so, I will!
[blockquote]Hey, I was with you up to here, but I won't hear you dis Paintbrush, it's the best application they've ever written. Gotta be the only app they've not kitchen sinked.[/blockquote]It's an example of the laughable applications that Microsoft includes with it's operating system. Ubuntu includes Gimp and OpenOffice in the default install, why can't Microsoft include similar software?
We're talking about waves with less energy than light waves. At most they cause things to become warmer.
Well if you are a photojournalist thats one thing. But not everyone has access to a $4000 camera that can do more than 8fps.
Factor in the cost of a license for Adobe Photoshop with the digital camera. Also a developing tank for developing your own film isn't expensive. Printing only 10 pictures isn't very expensive on any medium. But if your printing only 10 pictures from hundreds than you are obviously using a machine gun approach.
I own a dSLR, but I still like film. Kodak Tri-X is good stuff to use for candid shots. I love the way that Ilford Delta 100 looks when printed with a high contrast filter. Fujichrome Velvia produces colorful slides that I can project onto a wall for a slideshow.
An SLR is good because it allows the lens to be changed. Different lenses open up possibilities not present on camera with a single lens. The TTL viewfinder allows for a paralax free view of the scene. Oh, and a dSLR has much better image quality than most point and shoot cameras.
All sound like good ideas. Will you be running for a president in 2008?
I love it, the gimp one provides an image preview. Krita does not.
Plus Krita is as slow as molasses.
My first impression of it was that it was sluggish. It feels unresponsive. Doing a sharpen has only one setting. Gaussian Blur has only one setting. The curves tool seems to suffer from a bit of lag whenever I make a change. I didn't see a levels tool.
A 0.5 upgrade from 1.5 would be 1.10. Compare Konqueror 3.0 to Konqueror 3.5. You'd find much more of a difference.
Agree. In a couple of years there will be a FireFox 8.0.
It wouldn't be so difficult with wine.
The vast majority of image editing tutorials out there are written for photoshop. Right now the photoshop community is what is keeping it so popular. Sure they won't actually write plugins, but a larger user base might encourage commercial developers to release a native filter for the gimp.
Either way, I find the GIMP more than adequate for my needs. Pretty much every image in my pbase galleries has been edited with the GIMP.