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Yesterday I went around and commented on all or most of your works and i'm pleased to say that you are all improving! The community's work as a whole just keeps getting better and better.
I also just uploaded 8 new fractals, which aren't really that new, but they're the next series of images that I needed to post. I'll try to be better organized with updating in the future.
Now to my rant:
Recently there has been a rupture in the "human societal maturity" of the apophysis community. You may or may not know who did it, or who it was aimed at, but what was done was done. What happened was childish, rude, and what is happening is very immature to other apophysis artists.
The moral of the story: Don't rip work, give credit where credit is due, and don't act rude to someone who is trying to help you.
Now, my predicament:
I've noticed that many apophysis artists tag or watermark their images. This is to prevent ripping and while it hasn't happened to me yet, I am debating whether or not to do so.
I like to keep every piece of digital art that I create clean, so I don't really want to put any text or frames on normal pieces (I put them on ones I deem as "special").
Thoughts?
And now my feature:
As you may have noticed, my homepage and button have changed. This is because (while not mandatory) it may help my friend's site with activity. Currently she runs nervonline.net, an anime forum, and while she didn't ask me to do it, I know that she is paying the costs of the vbulletin forum on her own, and there are few members. So if you are into that kind of thing, go check it out.
Now, my featured artist today is a friend that I got to know 2 years ago:
~GhostsofReality is someone who I helped get into Apophysis and while he still refuses my style of flame creation, he's branched out into his own style. So, go check him out, and keep in mind, what you see in his gallery are his fractals that he's made from the start - no cutting out the early learning curve fractals, because he didn't have much of a learning curve.That's all!
-Matt
Personally I haven't experienced any image ripping but flames...now that's a different matter. I'm wavering on public parameter sharing. Some of mine have been abused and after having read WelshWench's recent journal musings on Pondlife I feel quite justified in having been outraged, although silently so. Even though she mentions no names and I didn't properly scold this person I know who it is (spelling errors and attitude tell all) and they had better not ask me for parameters ever again.
Now, for the honest people of the world...if you like something I've done and would like to tweak the flame, go ahead and note me!
BTW sorry about the rant all.
I agree about submitted fractals though, even though I think I do a bit more color correcting in Photoshop, you have to understand I use them on my desktop, and I don't want my own images watermarked that I have on my desktop.
Seems the word got out though, saw the latest dA announcement thing? Digital watermarking! (they must be watching...)
I completely understand. I also use mine on my desktop and that's one of the main reasons I don't tag either.
On a barely-related subject...I am having problems with resizing (enlargement, not reduction) and was wondering if you have some expertise in that area? If so I'll drop you a note explaining my issue...
As far as protecting your work, and keeping it clean. That's a tuffy. As I'm sure you know I have had a couple of my pieces ripped, Peices I only posted on one site. So for me I knew where they came from, And thanks to ip traces and ALOT of time and work I Found the persons home address. And mailed this person a nice little letter.that I had my lawyer type up. About A week later I got a letter back with the biggest appology I have ever read (I love when people say, "I thought they were public domain".)
Anyway, it cost me time, I took all my images off the other site until it was corrected. which I can't get all back on, again, not while I'm still making new things. I do my Fractals, I still do TG, C4D, and a few others everyday.,
Anyway (again...lol) Paintshop Pro (I think 9 or 10 maybe both) Has digital watermarking. I am not quite sure how it all works, but I was told that even if someone takes you image, crops it, and changes colors, renames it. It is still digitally water marked. I am not sure how much of that is true But it's a good place to start if you don't want to add signatures to your images.
Good feature. BTW
I've heard of digital watermarking and it is in my version of Photoshop, so if I do need to do it, I can. But, right now, we'll see, i'm still hesitant on doing it because it hasn't happened.
The one good thing about the digital watermark is that they are invisable. no one knows it's there.