To fuzz or not to fuzz (the license plate in photos)...
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- Daniel Hienzsch
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I just spent an hour in Photoshop power Guassianing(aninganing) the license plate out of everyone one of the first 75 photos of an eventual 7 to 8 hundred. Much as I love using my polygonal lasso (it makes selections tell the truth!) I'm starting to wonder if the paranoia is worth the effort.
Is it... is it not? - Carving Canyons, Taking Trips, Cracking the Ton: www.motoescapism.com
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- Daniel Chapman
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Your cars or other peoples?
Public domain photos, user photos or your own? -
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- Daniel Hienzsch
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Initially for this first run of photos, it is the explicit photographs of my vehicle that I'm worried about. If I get to the point where users can submit photos, I imagine it will be up to them to take whatever precaution they feel is necessary.
On another note, I have to say that your site has been a pain in my butt! Everytime I look at it, I become further dissatisfied with the appearance of my site; my suckerfish menu, my logo, my color scheme. Because of your $*#@#$(*&!!!!! Ninja logo, I spent the last three days spending money on iStockPhoto and vectoring, slicing and drop shadowing in photoshop and I'm still not satisfied!!!! Curse you!!!!!
Seriously though... it's been both an inspiration and a motivation, great work!
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- Daniel Chapman
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lol thanks.
I can give you the artist's details if you want him to make you one too.
He is very helpful, and the pic will be all yours when he is done.
If you sepnt 3 days calculate how much money you could have earned working overtime for 3 days, then that is yoru budget instead of trying to do it yoruself.
I did this calculation myself, I -could- have done something about 70-80% as good if I really put my heart and soul into it but it would have taken me at least 3 or 4 days of solid drawing and image editing because I am simply not good enough to do good pics on demand.
So it was cheaper, and far, far more efficient to get an expert to do it for me, and then go earn the money I paid him by doing a few hours of over time work. Plus the image is better.
DIY is not always the best way.
Why are you blurring your number plate? To stop people identifying you? They can probably do it anyway by doing a whois on your site, or using your contact details from the site. TBH I wouldn't worry so much.
Again calculate the hours it would take, convert that into paid hours then spend that money on a new security system for the car or something
BTW you will be very unhappy to know that ninjoola will be getting even -better-. Currently it looks good, but I want it to look great. As I suggested above, I am going to enlist a pro template pimper to help me.
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- Daniel Hienzsch
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Pro Template Pimper
Somewhere a resume is crying to have that put on it!
I take your points on the anonymity aspects... It just seeeeeemed so significant for some reason that I felt possessed to do it. I think I'll forgo it now. Seems kind of a ridiculous effort in the full light of day.
As far as the site goes... I need to build up the experience on my personal site so I can cut down on the professional services the intranet at my employer will eventually require. If I had farmed out the last two weeks worth of work, I wouldn't have learned to use Fireworks, Firebug, Firefox WebDev extension, PHP syntax, CSS syntax, etc. etc. All things I have been putting off learning ever since I finished Laura Lemay's "Learn HTML4 in Six Days" back in 1997 and thought I was billy bad-ass using tables.
I'm still jugging my opinion on my logo. My internal juries still out on how well I did. - Carving Canyons, Taking Trips, Cracking the Ton: www.motoescapism.com
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- Daniel Chapman
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What is your site by the way?
All those thing aren't that hard to do (if you are geeky enough). Should have farmed them out to me ;D -
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- http://www.motoescapism.com id/pass: rtheme/rtheme (I still have it under a .htaccess to keep prying eyes away from my baby before she's ready).
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- Daniel Chapman
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It looks great!
The logo is looking really nice, but if you wanted to change anything you could maybe move the escaping guy to a more realistic position. Or fill the right hand site with something to escape to!
Or a picture of a buy leaping off a bike and silhouette it in the same way. Maybe.
But even as is it looks really clean and tight. You should be proud.
oh one thing though, the size modifiers at the top aren't working, the ABC things. Might be an idea to get rid of them if you aren't using them? -
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Daniel Chapman wrote:
I can give you the artist's details if you want him to make you one too.
I'll take that. - VirtueShop
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