Dark Angel
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  • Basically a holy saint of a kingdom named Lyuritis is destined to seal away the monsters invading the earth, and Arnas the captain of her knights is helping her in her journey and they develop feelings for each other in their journey.
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    I am fine. Just lazing about.
    not much to do in my life really, besides some study.
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    Hey nya.

    How are you going? : )
    From what I can gather it seems to be a problem at his end, since he's the only one who seems to have reported a problem of not being able to see the files and a deep blue colour showing up when he clicks the spoiler (which I can't seems to relate what kind of error that is...?)
    Hey Dark Angel, I've checked all three of the links and they all worked fine (actually I seen them before due to the mentions :P, but I double checked it just in case). However what I have noticed for the initial load it takes longer than usual, taking between 5-10 minutes when I first view (before you asked me to check) but it pretty much load instantly this time round, so maybe Nanashi is experiencing the same problem I had before? Tell him to just open and let it load, I've tried it on both IE and Chrome, I don't use Firefox nor do I use Safari.
    Shishou, i need some help man with a project of mine, i will send you some renders later to fix them for me, Thanx!
    Heya Angel,

    Sorry for the late reply man I've been really busy these past few days =/
    As for the camera, the amount of clicks sounds reasonable Most DSLR camera's go about 100.000 to 150.000 clicks before they need a shutter chamber replacement) but what's the price tag of the camera?

    I have a Nikon D5100 in case you'd like to know.
    Can you render for me some images if you can please?

    I am fun from your rendering thread!
    Can i send you the link of the images that i want you to render them for me?

    Thank you for your time!
    It's bad, but not THAT bad―I've seen worse. If you deal with scans a lot, images like that one are pretty common.

    Sadly no. I have a few friends who are either simply into photography or actual experts at it, but they've never convinced me to get interested in photography myself. So I don't know much about it. From my limited knowledge, though, I'm not sure if your spending was allocated correctly. It's nice that you could get the Nikkor lens for less than half its retail price, but 20,000 clicks sounds like quite a lot. If I'm not mistaken, the average camera (average end) has a life expectation between like 50,000 to 150,000 clicks, so 20,000 may be taking quite a lot already. But maybe that's fair with the second-hand price...

    From what I've seen, iPhone camera is like the typical smartphone camera... it relies on producing pictures in very high resolutions rather than quality and detail. Such high-resolution photos will of course look very sharp on screens with small to medium resolutions, especially if the screen is physically small (like that of the iPhone itself). In full size, it's often not hard to spot the lack of quality, such as (most prominently) artifacts. I guess it's a matter of course that photos can never be as sharp as computer-generated images, for example, but yep, phone cameras still can't beat real cameras no matter how much they're hyped.

    And I wouldn't recommend an Alienware... there are huge laptops meant to be used as portable workstations, with extraordinary power and size as to attempt to mimic desktop computers, but I'd stay away from Alienware. Overpriced and the design is too bulky. Portable workstation laptops can easily weigh up to 4kg and more, but at least the designs are often sleek and efficient. Alienware, though, seems to focus too much on decorative elements.
    Oh, you used the manual way... I was lazy and went down the quick & dirty route (not that I wanted to use the image for anything, anyway), which took me like less than 10 minutes―most of which was spent waiting for the filters to do their job―with Gaussian Blur, Greycstoration, and Topaz DeNoise. Of course, you produced a much better result in the end. Good job.

    Like you, I also applied a few passes of sharpness after (aggressively) using the filters. It's almost like a standard operating procedure for me in dealing with images that need to be cleaned or denoised as to offset the inevitable blurring that will come out as a result of filter use. Using clone tool would require some real patience though, something I don't have...
    It looks pretty neat that it's easy to mistake for an intended pattern, but I think it's a scan defect. It feels weird for a pattern to apply throughout the entire image. I've often encountered those weird patterns that come out as a result of a scan, and they're usually pretty easy to clean:

    That was a quick and dirty edit, though. If you can see, the upper part of the hair looks a bit blurry, because I just applied multiple filters in a rather aggressive manner. Just for a demonstration.
    Nice. You really like rendering, don't you. And cheers for sharing the PSDs for your renders as well; I'm sure they will be useful to whoever needs 'em. Easier to edit and can be used as a learning material (in exchange with greater file size).

    Yeah, it's pretty common to lose interest like that over time. I used to be very much into collecting just like you, but nowadays I just can't be bothered. I don't even watch anime anymore, which is why games (and reading) are my primary source of entertainment. Must be good for your kid to have a father that collects so much, though.
    Yeah, I gave you the wrong one. Was multitasking and clicked on the wrong award. I haven't even closed the poll properly. I've removed the #33 award from you, but it looks like it may take some time before it really gets deleted. My bad.
    I know that feel... I've been feeling the same for the past 2-3 weeks. It's not just art-related stuff either; basically everything, even gaming, which usually is my primary source of entertainment.

    On the bright side, you meddle with a lot more things than just signature creation, so I suppose you could always try to seek solace by making other stuff. But I guess it's all the same when you don't feel like doing it. As for the SOTM, it'll be sad if you decide to retire, though I highly appreciate you giving your resources and helping newcomers as always. I wonder if we can have something more invigourating in terms of contests, though... too bad renano isn't around.

    And yes, I suppose it all changes when you have a family. I'm not that old yet, but even I felt a declining rate in getting interested in various things when I switched from being a kid to a teen to an adult. I can only imagine what it's going to be like when I'm over thirty...
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    Ah I see. : ) Australia is a nice place.
    we have some rather cool wildlife here as well.

    wombats are nice I think.

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    Ah.... Well people usually think I am from Europe if I don't put down Australia. : o
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    No I just randomly guessed lol. Guess I was lucky.
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    I am gonna say Greece. : s
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