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TEST 2:Size: 2048x2560 = resized down in PS to current size-dpi=300 bicubic(for resize)
Quality: 4000
Oversample: 5, Filter: 0.72
Buffer depth: 32-bit floating-point
Allocating 2,007.04 Mb of memory
Creating image with quality = 4000.00
Average speed: 3,576,912.04 points per second
Pure rendering time: 1 hour 38 minutes 3.66 seconds
Total time: 1 hour 39 minutes 4.47 seconds
You be the judge. What do you think?
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Comments: 9
I like the colors on this one a bit better.
Well since you want everyone to judge heres what I think: You should probably turn the oversample down to 3, even 2 and not really notice a difference, especially with a filter of .72. Also, you can render bigger images using the same amount of memory. I would also try using a quality higher than 4000, probably in the 10-15000 range, or sometimes even higher. My last suggestion is when resizing images in photoshop, if you have CS2, go to Help > Resize Image, because that doesn't do any resampling(like bicubic, nearest neighbor, etc), which tends to decrease overall quality of the end result.
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Hmmm....(copy/paste/save)
Thanks! I will give that a shot. Though, I think that right now, I'm not too worried about larger images and am more into desktops or web-viewable art work. No one on DA has the money to buy from artists here on DA and it just feels like a fleamarket sometimes, so I'm over the whole print shop aspect of fractal art. I just want to make cool shit to drape over everyone's desktop, including my own. That's why I started doing this, and that's where I'm going back to.
On another note, I will be setting up a Shutterstock account soon, so none of the images on DA will be downloadable. It will be by request only that I will send the images to someone here. I need to try and make some extra money, and I'm pretty sure my stuff will sell.
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Ok, well if you're going for web viewable work, you're doing a great job. I personally happen to love enormous, spanning, incredibly detailed fractals. Also, don't forget shutterstock has a minimum size limit, 4 megapixels if I remember correctly.
And one more thing. Zoomify is a cool little thing that you could use in conjunction with an image on dA, and on a personal site. If I ever get around to making my own site, I plan on using it on pretty much all of my fractals on here.
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That's right, they do have a size limit. So that rules out a lot of my already rendered pieces. Balls.
Zoomify's website isn't loading completely in Opera/linux. I'll try it in FF, and then Windows if that doesn't work.
And thank you for the encouragement! I like most of what I post here on DA, and I can count on one hand the fractals I haven't posted that I've rendered out.
On another note of Zoomify, I have a script installed into my fiance's site that I'm building for her jewelry business that is a zoomify sort of effect. Try this site and see what I'm talking about: [link]
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Zoomify is more like google maps. It takes a really big image and then splits it into little images that load depending on how far zoomed in you are. It's flash based and very simple to use. All you do is choose an image and it slices it up and everything, creating some folders with the smaller slices and then you upload them to a website, along with the viewer needed to see the images.
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That's pretty cool. I like that idea.
Did you try the links on the website I posted?
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Yes, I did try that link. I think it's a pretty neat effect, but I think it would be nice if what you click was a small thumbnail of the image you end up viewing.
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Oh definitely. What I'm planning on doing is having those link buttons labeled with text (or a mouseover of the image(s) that will be in the gallery) and setting up multiple galleries that can be viewed from inside of that effect window. Make the base site as minimal as possible and have the majority of the content held inside of the effect window. At least that's the idea for now. The site is far from ready. We don't even have pictures of her jewelry yet.
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Ok, sounds cool. It's gonna look great when it's all done and ready to go!
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