Or in this case, a little late-afternoon beauty.
What you see above is a photo of a sunset in Colorado very near to where my grand-aunt used to live. She sent copies of this photo out several years ago. My copy has a couple of spots of water-damage, and some scratches from living in a box for the last few years. Thanks to the magic of PhotoShop, those flaws are much less appearant in the scan you see above. 🙂
Edited on Feb 25th 2003, 17:47 by Hooloovoo
Not that it really bothers me too much as a user, (since my primary browser has proper PNG support) but as a designer, my life would be made that much easier if MSIE supported the PNG image format correctly. So, without further adieu, I present to you the Proper PNG Support in Internet Explorer for Windows online petition.
I’m not sure if anyone remembers, but a while ago, I posted this image in an entry:
That is an example of why PNG alpha transparency is cool, and why no one really uses them yet. If your browser supports the format properly, you will see a penny sitting on the background color of the page (no matter which theme you happen to be using) without the anti-aliased “fringe” so common to transparent GIF images. If your browser doesn’t (*cough* IE) you see the penny sitting in a light-grey box.
There are work-arounds for getting PNG images to display properly in IE, but the methods I’ve seen thus far seem kludgy to me.
http://www-bcs.mit.edu/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html
I got that link via email this morning, along witht he following message:
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It really messes with your head, but Square A and Square B are on the exact same shade of gray. You can take it in to Photoshop like I did if you don’t believe it.
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So I did, and they are. I love stuff like this. There’s also a link to a page explaining what your eye is doing to create the effect.
Update: There’s also some other neat links on this page (including that checkered shadow illusion)
Edited on Sep 30th 2002, 17:10 by Hooloovoo
Okay, check this out. I found it on User Friendly’s LotD
Here’s an excerpt from the page:
[Quote] The Wooden Mirror project is an art installation, and as such the goals leading to its creation are a bit vague. The piece explores the line between analog and digital. In the essence of the piece is the notion of inflicting digital order on a material that is as analog as it gets — wood. [Quote]
Edited on Jul 31st 2002, 17:23 by Hooloovoo