deskthority

And that could upset our Hawaiian users!
CONUS....pffff....

After much fiddling around, I couldn't get any of them to work well with the header. Snoopy needs to shoot details on the right side of his pictures, not the left. (Take note, would-be header photographers!) The DT logo needs space, and without the right kind of photo, cropping can't save the shot.

I actually quite like the third crop of the golden skull. To me it fits quite well with the DT logo. It nicely splits the header into a bright part where the logo is and a dark part where stuff like spy and IRC is.

Hmm… it kinda works. I'd prefer to be more zoomed out, where the detail is still sharp, but going close was the only way to get him out from behind the title.



I'm guessing Snoopy's got a good proxy to get his hands on an array of clacks like that. And perhaps some shares in a goldmine.

Or you must cheat. I'm not really good at this, but you get the idea.

I can try to take different pictures with another angle. Always happy to see when stuff from me appears here.

But I'm not a photo expert... currently learning how to get some good pics out of my dslr.

PS: I really like the gold cc header.

Which version?

One simple rule to improve your photos for header cropping: put the good stuff towards the right of the picture, so you include more space on the left. That's where the DT logo goes!

webwits cheated version is cool. the transition to black is a bit rough, but looks good together with the white dt logo.

All right, when I'm next in Photoshop, I'll try a few gradients. They're not as bad a cheat as Matteo's!



Brilliant caps. But that picture came straight out of rotation when I took over. Bad Bad BAD!

I'm glad it did. That one always made me cringe when I saw it. It just didn't work.

My APL header looks like a cheat, with it fading darker on the left, but that was done with actual lighting. Same with the Selectric ball.

I think I'll reshoot that APL one though. It was taken with a crap camera before I got the DSLR. It's not as crisp as I'd like.

Yes, thanks for removing it.

How does this look for the gold skull?

Just thinking out loud here…

Oh sure - copy my idea from last year:

Ah, of course, you were the first guy to ever point a camera at caps. I forgot about that! Hell of an invention, sir. I was just shooting again along the same lines as this:



But this time with emphatic ducks!

Testing two pictures.

The second one, sand coloured one is quite nice. What keyboard's membrane is that?

It's from a '86 Model M i recently got from Cindy, with glued membranes (or at least i can't really separate them). The colors are even in reality funky! That's the whole shot:

"In the shadow of our pale companion" (title of a piece by Agalloch)

Nice title. But the lighting isn't up to much. Fancy trying again in daylight or with something softer?

Muirium wrote: Nice title. But the lighting isn't up to much. Fancy trying again in daylight or with something softer?

I have zero photo skills, so i'm just testing ...
(and the camera is borrowed for a few days)

Practice is how we all get there. "Seek the light!"

Compgeke wrote: How does this look for the gold skull?

transition is nice, but a bit too much zoom for my taste. Still prefer webwits version.

Sadly I personally suck with photoshop stuff.

some doubleshot headers

That last one is funky!

retrobright session! :p

I like the last one!

Me too. It's live!

personally I do prefer the CMYK as I gives space to DESKthority logo pop-up more, but the retrobright is more "far out" indeed man

I don't like the lighting on the CMYK. Do it again in daylight! Your retrobrighting one is essentially perfect. Nice job.