Visual Arts - November 2007

I've just scanned one of my artwork at 200dpi... I've just set its levels and now I was going to clean it up but when I'm using the eraser instead of erasing my lines what I'm getting is a layer of small squares (colored Grey and White). Why, what can I do to erase ONLY my unwanted lines instead of erasing also the white of my drawing???? Help me I need your help urgent!!!! Thanks by the way! -_-

2007-11-09 23:42:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drawing & Illustration

im up on terms and stuff, i know its a specialist field, so tell all please.....

- lighting
- markets
- et cetera

many thanks

2007-11-09 21:56:06 · 7 answers · asked by Antoni 7 in Photography

I paint wine glasses and have started experimenting with a new design. The simplest one it painting a flower on the globe, but when you look into the glass you see the pistol, stamen, etc. Does anyone know how to make the inside images less aparant under the outer coat? Thanks!

2007-11-09 21:22:58 · 2 answers · asked by nxzema_grl 3 in Painting

2007-11-09 18:54:50 · 5 answers · asked by j_saiha4 1 in Painting

I am looking for maybe a book or a website or something that shows you step by step how to lay out an op art pattern like Vasarely or somebody.

2007-11-09 18:45:31 · 1 answers · asked by timothy 2 in Painting

how do u use photoshop? i want to put my picture and my boyfriend's picture together. how can i do that by using photoshop??????? can i make the pic of me and boyfriend a picture that looks like we are kissing. if yes how?

2007-11-09 18:05:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

2007-11-09 17:42:15 · 4 answers · asked by guille4ty 2 in Drawing & Illustration

So I want to learn more about taking pictures (scenery and people) I don't know much. Lighting and focusing and such. Was wondering if you could tell me anything you know! Here's the cam I have http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8377909&type=product&id=1178925993972

What can you tell me?

2007-11-09 16:24:27 · 8 answers · asked by Lorah 2 in Photography

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee22/NORTE_86/rooster.jpg this pic

2007-11-09 16:03:42 · 1 answers · asked by hotguy 1 in Photography

OK, so I have books I have photoshop7.0 wich is helping alot............What other stuff should I buy to make my manga?
any good programes?Any good website I sould look at?

thanks

2007-11-09 15:56:57 · 2 answers · asked by Bill Gates's Bigesst Fan! 1 in Drawing & Illustration

I am painting crown moulding with high gloss enamel (latex). I put two coats on and it still shows the brush marks. I used a 2 inch trim brush (good quality brush). The moulding was previously painted with an eggshell latex paint. How can I get the paint to look smoother?

2007-11-09 15:48:59 · 7 answers · asked by Nick M 2 in Painting

Hi everyone,

I've been working on a Thank You card to sent out to some people who sent us gifts and cards for the birth of our son.

I assembled one in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 using a digital picture as well as some text from text boxes and a few basic autoshapes from the tools menu.

The problem is that when I bring it to the printing counter at the local pharmacy, It brings kind of blurry (especially the text portion). I resized the pic as a 4x6, and the font I used for the text is Vivaldi, 13.71pts.

I'm pretty sure I have to tinker with the resolution or somthing but to be honest I'm not very good with Photoshop and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I'm pretty sure it's not the self-service printer since it prints regular pictures really clearly.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
DT

2007-11-09 15:30:38 · 7 answers · asked by bucky 3 in Photography

im a bit of an artist, so i decided to paint my mates sum pictures, because theyre moving away. ive completed one of a rose. only probelm is i used cheap paint. so the red bit of the rose is all cracked and i was absolutely devestated. is there any sort of oil i can put on it or anything to help it 'un-crack' ? (ive already tryed re painting it, but the cracks come back again) plz help! thanks :)

2007-11-09 15:20:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

I've been tipped by other people to place a CMYK bar strip near my painting / still life object when i'm to photograph it. But i'd like to know how the procedure to do proper color correction with the color bar, on Photoshop.

For your info, i do calibrate my white balance in my camera before i shoot.
Thanks for your contributed thoughts.

2007-11-09 14:58:37 · 3 answers · asked by windbells 1 in Photography

My LEGO robotics team would like to use a picture of the LEGO tiger shark, which you can buy and build, as their logo and put it on their uniforms. Would this be a copyright issue since it was designed by the LEGO company? If you would like to see a picture of it just look up LEGO tiger shark in a search engine.

2007-11-09 14:34:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drawing & Illustration

no really what happend to kodak why is it moving to mexico tell me all you know!!!

2007-11-09 14:10:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

I found one up for auction on proxibid.com in tx. and it is 37 out of 50 and the web page aftonartgallery list the same serigraph as 31 out of 50 as sold so I can't find a good estimate of what to bid. Some of their other works go for Hundreds but I do not want to overpay so what would be a resonable bid?

2007-11-09 13:58:21 · 1 answers · asked by L I 1 in Painting

1: To prove that photography was indeed an art, and not just a craft, photographers at first imitated the painting of the time.

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False


2: The 35-mm camera by Oskar Barnack of the Ernst Leitz company was also known as the "candid" camera.

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False


3: Photography has been used to document many important historical events including World War II and the Great Depression.

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False


4: One of the advantages of digital photography is that images created cannot be
manipulated or changed and will be saved permanently in an inalterable state.

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False


5: A photogram, created as a sketching device for artists, consisted of a small, lightproof box with a pinhole or lens on one side and a translucent screen on the opposite side.

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6: Sir John Herschel discovered in 1819 that hyposulfite of soda was suitable as a fixing agent for sensitized paper images.

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7: The daguerreotype was reproducible and could be used to produce images intended for mass distribution.

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False


8: The calotype's paper negative made possible the reproduction of photographic images.

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False


9: The Calotype Method, also known as the "wet plate" technique, involved coating a glass plate with silver iodide in suspension, exposing it while still wet, and developing it immediately.

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False


10: By the last quarter of the 19th cent. most households could boast respectable photographic collections. These were in three main forms: the family album, scrapbooks, and boxes of stereoscope cards.

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11: George Eastman's first camera, which he called the "Kodak," was first offered for sale in 1888.

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12: George Eastman developed the Brownie, a simple and very inexpensive box camera that introduced the concept of the snapshot.

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13: The Polaroid Model 95 was the world's first viable instant-picture camera.

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False


14: The first fully practical color film, Autochrome, did not reach the market until 1907.

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False


15: Black and white film is made up of a chemical mixture protected by a thin plastic layer. This chemical mixture is called a blend.

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False


16: Energy from the sun comes to the Earth in visible and invisible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Human eyes are sensitive to a large portion of that spectrum that includes visible and some invisible colors.

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False


17: Advertising photography, photojournalism, editorial photography, and fine art photography are all considered types of commercial photography.

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18: Color depth is the overall accuracy with which the colors in the photograph match or are capable of matching those in the original scene.

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False


19: A bitmap is a card containing chips that store images.

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False


20: Pixelization is an effect seen when you enlarge a digital image too much making the pixels more noticeable.

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False


21: Natural light generally refers to daylight and artificial light is illumination produced by man.

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22: Sidelighting occurs when the main source of illumination is behind the subject, shining in the direction of the camera.

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23: The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) was founded in 1946 in the U.S., and has approximately 10,000 members.

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24: Street photography is also known as "Straight Photography," implying it is the pure vision of something that was, like holding up a mirror to society.

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25: An aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted.

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26: A device called a lens usually serves as the aperture stop, and controls the aperture.

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27: A light source's color temperature is determined by comparing its hue with a theoretical, heated black-body radiator.

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28: The depth of field (DOF) is the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus.

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29: Larger cameras have deeper depth of field than smaller cameras.

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30: Filters on a camera lens, or color gels over the light source(s) can be used to correct color balance.

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False

2007-11-09 13:13:18 · 10 answers · asked by sophiapena11 1 in Photography

Ok if someone post a picture online with copyright, can someone draw it? NOT copy it but draw it? And posted in another online website without posting the name of the dog in the picture? Or is this agaist the law? SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY PLEASE.

2007-11-09 13:02:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

Is the contrast on my camera sharp on these three pictures?
After you take a look at them maybe rate if you feel the fancy.
How could the composition etc. improve?

http://www.brickfish.com/lahcimm_oj?pv=1

2007-11-09 12:52:48 · 1 answers · asked by lahcimm_oj 2 in Photography

and sell my art.
I think my talent is good enough to make a little money off of it, but I dont know how to start.
Any suggestions?

2007-11-09 11:55:07 · 6 answers · asked by deziiarnez1114 2 in Drawing & Illustration

I don't wish to go to an antique store and get nothing. The clock store that looked at it said that the clockworks were the nicest they had seen in a clock of that age. It is a light colored marble which is not as valuable as black. It is a Waterbury. The clock shop said approximately 1891.

2007-11-09 11:52:05 · 5 answers · asked by robert s 3 in Sculpture

I am making family albums for my brothers and sisters and I need to make copies of old family photographs dating from about 1920-1950 or so. I'm not concerned about copyrights as they were all taken by family members.

A. Can you please advise as to the best way to copy them? I need to make 8 sets total and the originals are all about wallet sized.
In addition, can you please answer the following:
B. If you scan them yourself, is that harmful to the original?
C. What process is the best in terms of lasting the longest?
D. Approximately does it cost when taken to a photo shop to process?

Thanks in advance!! :)

2007-11-09 11:49:04 · 3 answers · asked by booboo 6 in Photography

2007-11-09 11:04:35 · 2 answers · asked by Bebi 1 in Photography

Well, Christmas is coming up and i'm wanting a really great digital camera. The thing is, I don't know the first thing about going about finding a really great one. There are so many out there. I'm a glamour/swimsuit model and I really want to start taking my own amateur pictures just to mess around with the idea. Any ideas? Any really great ones? I've made mistakes of making purchases in the past on ones and they've been terrible and really didn't deliver what I wanted. They don't have to look magazine amazing.. unless there are ones out there like that. I've never handled my material before so I don't know what to look for. Price doesn't matter as I know the good ones can run pretty expensive. I just want a camera that will make me proud of my photos. Haha, it wouldn't hurt if it was pink as well, as I tend to be pretty lame and try to color-cordinate my favorite things. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

2007-11-09 10:52:35 · 5 answers · asked by Miss Lyss 2 in Photography

On our older TV sets there are sometimes these little logos that are comprised of 3, colors.
I'm told that what happens is the the prejection intencity of each color will vary depending on what color is needed on a single tiny dot. These tiny dots are all over the screen. The process is duplicated many times over throughout the screen developing moving pictures.
Is anyone familiar with the 3, colors that are used?

2007-11-09 10:52:21 · 27 answers · asked by chapel247 3 in Other - Visual Arts

Should the subject be facing towards, or away from the sun? I want to make the most out of the natural light, and i dont want it to come up too bright.

2007-11-09 10:51:06 · 8 answers · asked by sam 3 in Photography

what is the best way to remove circular blotches that appear on my photos (mainly those taken at night). I've got a Samsung NV7 digital camera and have cleaned the lens with a suede cloth but these spots appear to be within the lens itself. Any suggestions?

2007-11-09 10:00:04 · 1 answers · asked by Diarmid 3 in Photography

2007-11-09 09:56:30 · 4 answers · asked by fo2a_ragab 1 in Photography

I haven't asked for feedback in a long while, and I haven't recieved any flickr comments lately either. I'd like to know your opinions/suggestions/criticisms on these photos. I'm sixteen and photography is just a hobby I do on the side. I'm not looking to go professional or anything of that sort, but I do like to improve. Thanks! :D

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1103/1392694537_754c9eebb3.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1282/1393593938_1c968af38c.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2189/1846189498_25ce5aa844.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/1846219682_ee773a034d.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2030/1845459119_fb90e6d467.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/1848463245_3f71cc3d48.jpg

2007-11-09 09:51:18 · 9 answers · asked by classicrockrox 3 in Photography