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Post by michelb on Apr 24, 2015 14:43:26 GMT
In between, I have found one of the overlays on French Kiss site: www.frenchkisscollections.com/products/vintage-french-script-overlays-11907 Réparation et fournitures pour entretien des couvertures de Beslette du District et de l'hôtel ----- Réfection de 15 mètres de couvertures compris crochets liteaux et ardoises Réparation 24 heures ???40A bit technical for translation, but it's for repairing slate roofs. Extracting the words from the final image is an interesting challenge. On a side note, the printed characters mention a firm based in Châteaubriant (département de Loire Inférieure, now called Loire Atlantique, near Nantes, 30 km from where I was born...)
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Post by michelb on Apr 24, 2015 12:29:09 GMT
Interesting pieces of decorative handwriting for mundane 'terre à terre' subjects... The bit on the top right is a piece of an act written by a notary. The bit vertically on the left is probably a piece of an invoice made by a carpenter or roofer for repairing a part of a roof. Technically, isolating the writing from the background is a challenge that I'll try later tomorrow.
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Post by michelb on Apr 20, 2015 6:30:27 GMT
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Post by michelb on Apr 19, 2015 7:18:11 GMT
To start the ACR section of the forum, I can't find a better reading than the following: www.lumita.com/site_media/work/whitepapers/files/pscs3_rendering_image.pdfKeep in mind that our new forum is called 'Elements and more', which means Elements, Lightroom, Photoshop... and others like OneOne and others. All give you the wonderful power of raw conversion. For Elements users, the ACR part has drastically changed our editing workflow in the ten last years. It's good to start with a good understanding of the process!
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Post by michelb on Apr 14, 2015 15:44:20 GMT
Happy Birthay Ken!
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Post by michelb on Apr 14, 2015 15:32:47 GMT
I may be dreaming... But I do see a big opportunity in agreeing to guidelines for how to offer member tutorials in this forum. - I see all tutorials with a clearly common look, with a clear reference to the forum - my preferred format would be pdf files (possibly created under Word/Open office) - The tutorials could be offered in collaboration between several members, some with the ideas and illustrations, others to help shaping the display. - The tutorials should be approved by the admin/mods team to avoid copyright issues - The layout should necessarily offer useful information such as: authors, competence level, software versions, editing and update dates. That's where guidelines would be useful. - easy retrieval and download option from users (I have a few ideas...) - Those tutorials would allow linking to outside links. The important purpose is that anybody looking for a subject first uses the forum tutorial. - To build rapidly a mass of tutorials, we should offer: - tutorials to use the forum features, reformated tutorials from EV members allowing the use in this new forum; old tutorials needing serious updating (with reference to the original); tutorials about recent features of Elements/LR/etc. - forum tutorials advertisements: many sites don't allow linking to the forum itself, but allow linking to specific tutorials. A way to make the forum known. - Let's imagine we are able to issue (relatively small) tutorials in a weeks time... we could encourage newcomers to suggest ideas for new tuts. That would give us an edge over other forums or social media... Yes, I am dreaming . ,
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Post by michelb on Apr 14, 2015 6:06:59 GMT
I should have remembered that you have always been a very 'special' member in EV . Glad to see you in the leading team, and already so active. Keep up the good work!
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Post by michelb on Apr 13, 2015 16:46:36 GMT
Well, I had the bad idea to test with ... Sepiana. 18 recorded posts, and no thread found, whichever method I use. For any other users, the search works as expected.
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Post by michelb on Apr 13, 2015 9:45:34 GMT
I have not been able to see the posts from a given member. I get to the right location and choose between the posts initiated by the member and the other ones... but I got no list
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