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Something for the weekend ?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
January 5, 2018
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We spend a lot of time on the forum asking questions and helping each other out, quite rightly, as that is the purpose of the forum.

However, given the excellent range of skills across our forum users - how about a bit of fun and a chance to show off your Photoshop skills.

This is one of my favourite bits of coastline in the North East of England. I wonder what it might look like in the future though. With global warming will the sea rise or fall? Will the coast be developed , might the castle be restored/ or removed and replaced with something else?

Anything goes as long as it keeps to the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.

Everyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop "Grand Master".

No prizes - just the chance to practice / show off or bring a bit of humour and fun!

Dave

sftw

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L

lc55472355

Inspiring

Trying to upload my contribution from my computer, but I keep getting the message "That Image type forbidden." Any suggestions?

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Change the format to (say) a JPG.

L

lc55472355

Inspiring

Thanks, Derek. I tried JPG and PNG, and a photo of my dog to make sure there wasn't a problem with the content. Same message each time.

Norman Sanders

Legend

At my age I have a pretty good idea of what the future looks like.

(For the record, I created this in Lab)

D Fosse

Community Expert

What the heck...let's just turn the whole thing into a parking lot. And then obviously, the logical next step is a whole village of apartment buildings for the insanely rich elderly.

BTW, the "The D.Fosse award for correct use of colour (any colour!)" goes to Dave, for the blue sky in the original shot. It's...perfect. Really. This is what a mid-day blue sky looks like. But I can't afford to send him an Eizo, so it'll have to be a sky blue crayon.

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Haha- I love the little touch of the picture on the floor Dag. I hope I can get a parking space though, perhaps I'll mark it out with my new crayon .

Norman - you will be teaching us all for many, many years to come, but please remember to take the ND10 filter off the next entry. You still win the best use of Lab award though

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Earthquakes !!! I'm glad I wasn't driving along that road when that happened. We are lucky here in that the UK is on a stable bit of the earth's crust.

Dave

davescm wrote
Earthquakes !!! I'm glad I wasn't driving along that road when that happened. We are lucky here in that the UK is on a stable bit of the earth's crust.
Dave

We were incredibly lucky Dave. It happened at half past midnight, and only one person was killed when their house collapsed on them, and there is some talk about that being heart attack rather than trauma. Our houses are mostly single story using light materials. The roofs are sheet metal corrugated to look like concrete tiles, and these are supported by lots of very lightweight trusses. So they don't build enough energy to collapse when shaken. When the shake changes direction, the light weight means less inertia to overcome. It is solidly built masonry buildings that fall down.

The big Christchurch quake seven years ago caused more damage than usual because it had an unusually large vertical component. The bearings that they support large buildings on to earthquake proof them, don't absorb vertical movement.

The roads were buggered, but traffic is light here even in the day time. There would have been very view vehicles at 12.30am, although a goods train did get stuck in a tunnel. Imagine how scary that would have been? The shaking was incredible where we are 40 kilometers away, so imaging how it would have been in that train cab right on the epicenter?

The train was stuck there for months, and they had to put a 24 hour guard on it after it was looted. I remember stories about new motorcycles, but this link does not mention them. Do you remember Whisky Galore? In defense of NZ, I will point out that we apparently the second least corrupt country in the world.

Good to see your thread has some legs now Dave. Will you let it run, or change the picture after a while?

Terri Stevens

Legend

Only one American entry so far, they must be too busy 'Making America Great Again'

You should offer a prize Dave,

First Prize: 1 week in the White House with Donald and Melania Trump

Second Prize : Two weeks in the White House with Donald and Melania Trump and the chance to play with Barron's train set- Union Pacific.

Third Prize An evening with Harvey Weinstein , Kevin Spacey and Al Franken. Entertainment provided by David Duke duetting with Diana Ross and Beyoncé Knowles in a rousing rendition of the Camptown Races Spectacular light show visible on the grass outside through the window. Bullet proof vests supplied on request.

davescm

Author

Community Expert

It's still the weekend over there Terri so plenty time for late entries. You forgot the fourth prize - a swim in the North Sea in January

Dave

Terri Stevens

Legend

My entry for the Trevor Dennis school of very weird artistic thinking.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Nice one Derek - I finally get to join royalty on a stamp . I am sure the subtlety of "letters" is not lost either .....

Dave

chanaart

Community Expert

Sounds like fun!!!

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Hi Chana

That looks a lovely place and it would be nice to see the coast look like that. The idea though is to use Photoshop (or any other tools) to change the photo in the first post - if you did that and ended up with your photo I'm very impressed

Hi Trevor - good to see your system is running. I'll have to pass you a file with a 3D layer so we can compare render times.

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

davescm wrote
Hi Trevor - good to see your system is running. I'll have to pass you a file with a 3D layer so we can compare render times.

Dave

Still using the 3930K system Dave. I'm just getting ready for the new one which has a bigger case, and would not have fitted into my work area. I'm also using it as an opportunity to tidy it up and hopefully reduce the number of cables. I've just looked under the desk, and ca see 30 power sockets! They use three wall outlets, and most of them drive 12V 1.5 amp power adapters. The new build has a 1200W PSU so I am going to use the computer to power a lot of the externals like hard drives (I have eight). I'll also mount the surge protector multi socket boards onto a panel on the wall at the back of the desk.

BTW I was not able to help myself, and started a new SFTW composite, but my hastily plugged in tablet wasn't playing nicely, and it was being hard work. I'll get to it later if things go well, but you would not believe the chaos here, and in the interests of domestic harmony, I need to be straight before Chris gets back from work (in nine hours time).

Terri Stevens

Legend

I have a slightly more gloomy view about the future

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Haha - at least the sky is still blue Terri. It looks like the water's coming up though. We'll need all those power stations to charge the electric cars - I hope it it's going to be windy overnight

Dave