Merry Christmas to all the forum and to everyone else.
May everyone's hopes and dreams come true, (mine is to win the darn weekly game)
Christmas can be sad time as well for people, our thoughts go to them, and wishing them all the best.
More for the song than the video, but from all the admins, merry christmas.
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Featured Forum Member - Katie Dee
Katie Dee is from our photographer side mainly, and having won game 2 of the photo competition, the talent is there for all to see, already.
It is nice to have such a broad spectrum of people, it means we are learning of so many people.
Katie, this is your showcase.
Here is Katie's background.
I am 72 years old and have had various types of jobs since leaving school at the age of 16. I was born in Scotland. My only early contact with photography has been an odd go on my mother’s Box camera and for a while in late 1950 – early 1960 I did a bit of ‘tinting’ of wedding photos for my first husband. As I recall not the easiest of things to do but the brides all seemed to want their bouquets coloured (and their faces). Flower colours were not too bad but skin tones!!!!!
Years ago I used a Pentax MG Super but only for holidays and family snaps, it is now in a cupboard unused. In 2002 Pat bought me a digital camera, it was a Fuji FinePix. My main subject was the garden and all the flowers that I had planted, fed and looked after. Once I had found out about the macro facility on the camera I was off, it made me realize how beautiful the flowers were close up. I use my flower/garden photos for my greetings cards which I enjoy designing for my friends and family. Some of the flower photos are framed and are hanging up around the house.
I am enjoying my time on the forum. Everyone is so friendly and helpful and I have picked up a few tips along the way mainly by way of others peoples questions and answers. I also ask Pat for advice from time to time. The monthly theme makes me get out and about, going to places like the farm, stables and the pub recently and asking if I can take photos. I would not have done that before the forum. I think I am seeing things that I would have missed before. My camera now is FinePix S7000 which I love as much as Photoshop and I very rarely go out without my camera now, even when shopping.
Her blog can be found at http://katiedeespics.blogspot.com/ for more of her excellent pictures.
It is nice to have such a broad spectrum of people, it means we are learning of so many people.
Katie, this is your showcase.
Here is Katie's background.
I am 72 years old and have had various types of jobs since leaving school at the age of 16. I was born in Scotland. My only early contact with photography has been an odd go on my mother’s Box camera and for a while in late 1950 – early 1960 I did a bit of ‘tinting’ of wedding photos for my first husband. As I recall not the easiest of things to do but the brides all seemed to want their bouquets coloured (and their faces). Flower colours were not too bad but skin tones!!!!!
Years ago I used a Pentax MG Super but only for holidays and family snaps, it is now in a cupboard unused. In 2002 Pat bought me a digital camera, it was a Fuji FinePix. My main subject was the garden and all the flowers that I had planted, fed and looked after. Once I had found out about the macro facility on the camera I was off, it made me realize how beautiful the flowers were close up. I use my flower/garden photos for my greetings cards which I enjoy designing for my friends and family. Some of the flower photos are framed and are hanging up around the house.
I am enjoying my time on the forum. Everyone is so friendly and helpful and I have picked up a few tips along the way mainly by way of others peoples questions and answers. I also ask Pat for advice from time to time. The monthly theme makes me get out and about, going to places like the farm, stables and the pub recently and asking if I can take photos. I would not have done that before the forum. I think I am seeing things that I would have missed before. My camera now is FinePix S7000 which I love as much as Photoshop and I very rarely go out without my camera now, even when shopping.
Her blog can be found at http://katiedeespics.blogspot.com/ for more of her excellent pictures.
Game 34 and 35 - Tower Blocks and Lighthouses!
So we are up to games 34 and 35 - and everyone is still having fun, well obviously they are, because the pictures keep getting better and better.
Game 34: Winner - Ray
Game 35: Winner - Andrew
As you can see pictures speak louder than words.
I think 2008 will be even bigger and better!!!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Game 34: Winner - Ray
Game 35: Winner - Andrew
As you can see pictures speak louder than words.
I think 2008 will be even bigger and better!!!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Monday, 10 December 2007
From the Galleries
JohnW's excellent image of his boxer dog.
An amazing portrait, which i hope you like as much as i do.
An amazing portrait, which i hope you like as much as i do.
Splitting Pixels Flickrs Away
Yes we have joined the revolution which is Flickr,
why not join us as a contact, just view our pictures or why not sign up if not already and have your pictures on Flickr with the rest of us.
http://www.flickr.com/people/splittingpixels/
Has anyone ever typed in your own name into google and seen where it comes, well i done it with splittingpixels, our Flickr page comes up second. I know how sad, but also kinda cool.
why not join us as a contact, just view our pictures or why not sign up if not already and have your pictures on Flickr with the rest of us.
http://www.flickr.com/people/splittingpixels/
Has anyone ever typed in your own name into google and seen where it comes, well i done it with splittingpixels, our Flickr page comes up second. I know how sad, but also kinda cool.
Splitting Pixels Snaps Away (bad pun alert)
Now we have mentioned in the past that we run a photo competition which is sponsored by whattheduck.net
Well it has now been running for four months and here are the entries and winners.
August: Winner - Pat(PDEEE)
September: Winner - Katie Dee (katiedee)
October: Winner - Neal (thesnapper)
November: Winners - Tom (mutinyphoto), Brian (Barmys)
Why Not sign up and enter this months competition, what else can it be, but how best you see Christmas. Runs until New Years Eve, so why not join and post your best.
Ah you need some help, why not post your questions in our photography help section.
Well it has now been running for four months and here are the entries and winners.
August: Winner - Pat(PDEEE)
September: Winner - Katie Dee (katiedee)
October: Winner - Neal (thesnapper)
November: Winners - Tom (mutinyphoto), Brian (Barmys)
Why Not sign up and enter this months competition, what else can it be, but how best you see Christmas. Runs until New Years Eve, so why not join and post your best.
Ah you need some help, why not post your questions in our photography help section.
Featured Forum Member - Yvonne Hopgood
Yvonne is not only a forum member but a 3 time winner of the weekly digital art games (she would be the first to say that she was part of a group who never thought they would win) Well that has been blown out of the water, she probably won't be speaking to us non winning folk (well me, really).
This is her showcase and a deserved one. She not only makes sure the forum ticks nicely, Yvonne does a lot of work behind the scenes that people don't notice.
From me and the rest of the admin guys and the forum. Thank you.
You now know the rest, great pictures and some background from Yvonne herself.
I have no Art background that I could be proud to tell you about and the only art was done at school apart from drawing on the walls at home when my Mother had stripped off the wall paper. I had loads of paint as my step brother worked at Reeves and I can remember all these small blocks of paint that I had and just wasted.
You could say I have been around photography for most of my life from 20 onwards my then Husband being a manager of a photographic shop we always had the latest camera for use. We also several years later had a wedding and portrait business run by 4 of us.
After the inevitable I started a small wool shop and amongst other things knitted Arran sweaters ( by Hand) sending them to the USA for my aunt to sell to order. I could make one in a week and did quite well
Then came the fluctuation in wool prices so it wasn’t working financially I had to give it up and went to work for the big K their B companies to start with they had labs over most of the country. I remained there for 23 years until retirement.
I was given a Kodak DC210 as a leaving gift it was a bit of a dog really but a start, at the time we were spending more time at our Villa in Cyprus so I had a computer built. The Guy that built it put on several programs (as they do out there) and one of them happened to be PS 4 or 5 I could only manage a couple of clicks here and there and purchased a Barry Beckham tutorial joined a forum where I met several splitting Pixels members the rest they say is History
This is her showcase and a deserved one. She not only makes sure the forum ticks nicely, Yvonne does a lot of work behind the scenes that people don't notice.
From me and the rest of the admin guys and the forum. Thank you.
You now know the rest, great pictures and some background from Yvonne herself.
I have no Art background that I could be proud to tell you about and the only art was done at school apart from drawing on the walls at home when my Mother had stripped off the wall paper. I had loads of paint as my step brother worked at Reeves and I can remember all these small blocks of paint that I had and just wasted.
You could say I have been around photography for most of my life from 20 onwards my then Husband being a manager of a photographic shop we always had the latest camera for use. We also several years later had a wedding and portrait business run by 4 of us.
After the inevitable I started a small wool shop and amongst other things knitted Arran sweaters ( by Hand) sending them to the USA for my aunt to sell to order. I could make one in a week and did quite well
Then came the fluctuation in wool prices so it wasn’t working financially I had to give it up and went to work for the big K their B companies to start with they had labs over most of the country. I remained there for 23 years until retirement.
I was given a Kodak DC210 as a leaving gift it was a bit of a dog really but a start, at the time we were spending more time at our Villa in Cyprus so I had a computer built. The Guy that built it put on several programs (as they do out there) and one of them happened to be PS 4 or 5 I could only manage a couple of clicks here and there and purchased a Barry Beckham tutorial joined a forum where I met several splitting Pixels members the rest they say is History
Game 33 - Digital Art, Weekly Game - Potter
This weeks challenge has been one of excitement, when someone posts a picture a family member it seems to produce a surge of extra pictures and the other picture was of army barracks point.
I still find it amazing how many people can see an image and then create a completely different one, and not one is alike unless it is to try and outdo the other person, hence the 'harry potter' tries.
Congratulations go to Rebecca for this weeks win against other great pictures.
When this forum was set up it was to get people to learn, improve and help both photoshop, and their digital art and now photography also.
I think after 9 months we are seeing vast improvements and a more willing to help everyone even more, that was the idea (well the real idea, was to take all of your talents and claim them as my own, but alas, you soon realize that you have to be good to pull it off.)
Why not join in and sign up to either our digital art or photography competitions. They are both free, and all you need to do is to sign up!
I still find it amazing how many people can see an image and then create a completely different one, and not one is alike unless it is to try and outdo the other person, hence the 'harry potter' tries.
Congratulations go to Rebecca for this weeks win against other great pictures.
When this forum was set up it was to get people to learn, improve and help both photoshop, and their digital art and now photography also.
I think after 9 months we are seeing vast improvements and a more willing to help everyone even more, that was the idea (well the real idea, was to take all of your talents and claim them as my own, but alas, you soon realize that you have to be good to pull it off.)
Why not join in and sign up to either our digital art or photography competitions. They are both free, and all you need to do is to sign up!
Saturday, 1 December 2007
Thank you Jim Lewis and ATNcentral!
Thank you Jim for putting us up as a link, we are in your debt, for not only the link but actions which help help people like me become better photoshoppers,
the best thing is they are free!!!
Get yours today!!
http://www.atncentral.com/
the best thing is they are free!!!
Get yours today!!
http://www.atncentral.com/
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