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- |1-The increase of XXXX ones on the scene.
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- Why is it that there seems to be a marked increase in these XXXX
- slideshows on the scene at the moment. Is it because there are not the
- games around that there should be, and so people are having to get them
- done in order to keep swapping quick and regualar, or is there some
- other not so easy to see answer?
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- |1-WOW, she's a babe...
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- This is a tricky one, and I will try and put my opinion over to
- you all. I must however, point out that it is only my opinion, and what
- do I know anyhow. I am not directing it to anyone in particlular, but
- as a general base really, OK.
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- ^9^^40
- I think that the more CD's are released with
- them on and the the more BBS's that supply them, the
- more people will get them done. This will lead to a
- flood of slideshows, with folk rushing them out
- trying to get a name for them and their groups. This
- will only lead to sceners thinking "Oh no not another
- AGA slideshow". I hope that it won't get like that,
- and having done a few myself I have tried to make
- them a little better than the average one.
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- I have noticed that there are a few that look rather rushed,
- and are pretty crap on the scene at the moment. Again I will not name
- any productions in particular, but I think that you know who you are.
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- |1-Just look at those breasts.
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- I have started to produce these slideshows myself as I said
- earlier which was what really pompted this article. My productions are
- called Sweet Dreams. You may or may not have heard/seen it/them
- already. I have just done Sweet Dreams 3 AGA, and it is the best fo the
- three so far. Hopefully number 4 will be even better.
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- My view is that if you start off making average rushed
- productions then it will be very hard to shake off the reputation of it
- when you get better. There are so many slideshows around that look half
- done that when one comes along (like the BodyShop series by Freak of
- NFA) it makes it really stand out amongst the crowd as a class act.
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- |1-Sex On Legs...
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- Here are a few things that I think should be done in order to
- make your slideshow (if you are thinking of doing one in the future):
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- |1-One
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- Make the background colour black, and the colour on the outside of
- the picture black also. This will make your picture stand out
- better, and seems clearer. To do this you must change the first
- colour (background) with an unused colour (you may need to change
- this colour to 0,0,0 (black)). Then remap the colours as you will
- probably find that there are black bits on your picture now. When
- you have remapped the colours it will not look any different from
- the original pic, but you will have the correct first colour. Then
- simply cut out the picture and clear the screen. WOW the screen has
- gone blank and you have your piccy as a brush. There will be cases
- when you are trying to pick up a large picture that you run out of
- memory. If that is the case then cut out around the picture finding
- that the colour underneath is black. Then you will need to use your
- judgement to pick up maybe half the picture and try and place it
- where you think it would go. Then when you have put the second (or
- even third) part down then you will have to duplicate the length and
- height parts by picking them up as a brush and seeing if they are in
- the right place. I use PPaint, and have been using v6.1, but I
- found that as I have only a standard A1200 I kept running out of
- memory. Now I have reverted back to PPaint v2.1 as it uses much
- less memory to run (as it doessn't have as many features to load
- into RAM). It still does the job that I set for it though.
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- Then set your co-ordinates as origin 0:0 as you will next need to
- centralise your pic. If you are working in 640 x 512 then your
- centre will be 320 x 256. It doesn't take a genius to work out how
- that is done. Then place the picture down and it is in the middle.
- The reason why you should use co-ordinates is if you do it by your
- own vision and you have our computer running off a television you
- will find when it runs on a monitor it won't look central anymore.
- This is something to do with different rates, but as I am not a
- technical person I could be wrong on the reason. All I know is that
- it does happen.
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- Next thing that you should think about doing is the most difficult
- of the lot really. That is cleaning up all the little imperfections
- that have come out, especially when you have changed the format from
- JPEG to GIF. This can be very tiresome and tedious, but the reward
- at the end is worth it. You don't have to do every single pixel,
- but just try to hide the worst of it.
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- There are an increasing number of pictures that have BBS logo's on
- them. I think that they should be wiped off the picture as it
- detracts from the quality of the pic. This can be hard to do
- sometimes, as the logo is not on a single colour background, but on
- a complex one. When this is the case it takes a lot of patience and
- time to get it eradicated. You have to magnify the area and try to
- pick up little 2 x 2 brushes and try to paste it on without it
- looking silly and obvious. Try to make it as though the background
- is slighly faded, and unblocky (is that a word?)
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- |1-Five
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- Another simple yet effective little thing that can be done to
- improve your pictures is if they have borders, take them off.
- Especially if the border is white, as in Hi-Res Interlace it
- flickers and looks awful (unless you can afford a Multi-Synch
- Monitor).
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- Use GIF format as ILBM takes up too much room on the disks for your
- pictures, and JPEG doesn't save all the data, and is too slow also.
- It is good on compression though and you can fit a lot more pics on
- you disk. Waying up the pro's and con's you should really use GIF.
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- |1-Ending Bit.
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- I haven't made this article out to slate anyone in general and
- have written it for the good of the scene, as you never know someone
- might actually take a little notice of it.
- ^26^^446
- I hope that you do eventually get to see
- the Sweet Dreams productions, although the first
- one is pretty naff really, but is was my first
- ever attempt. I am still learning, and have a
- long way to go to reach the BodyShop series as I
- stated before, but I have hopefully reached a
- fairly good standard. I suppose that I can but
- wait to see if anyone slates my work, or praises
- it publically in this magazine or in a computer
- mag. The Sweet Dreams production, as well as
- anything else I produce is available from the
- following PD house as well as myself direct:
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- Rich and Kev
- Mon PD
- 9 Lon-y-Wylan
- Llanfairpwll
- Ynys-Mon
- Gwynedd
- LL61 5JU
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- If you wish to send any pictures into me please make sure that
- they are of high quality. If I use any then I will credit you
- accordingly on the title screen and the ReadMe file that accompanies the
- productions I do also. Please send your name and address also and I
- will send you the full version of the production AS WELL as your disks
- back (with new stuff on also). Also if you prefer you scene name will
- be put onto the credits, so tell me that as well as your group (if you
- are part of one), OK.
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- Well I think that I have just about covered everything that I
- wanted to, so I will sign off. Remember friendship (as well as jiffy
- junk) keeps the scene alive.
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