Irks of an Digital Artist
Art and creativity has always been on mom's side of the family. Herself has a studio of sorts in the house, my Aunt does photography, and I do the personal computer-enhanced photography and logo design stuff. Nothing professional from my end.
It's the artist blood inside me that boils everytime I'm on one of those HotorNot sites and I see people absolutely botch the pictures they put up there. Here's Top 5 imaging aggrevations:
1) person scans a wallet sized photo and saves the file monstrously huge with white space
nothing more aggrevating than treasure mapping across white space cropping out your little rinky dink wallet photo from a 2 MB file.
2) To show who is who in a picture, they either scratch out the other faces or draw a "me" with a crude arrow pointing to them
Nothing says "I'm lazy" than stating who you are in a picture of you and your friends by drawing an ugly white arrow to you, thus ruining the entire photo in the process. Here's a better idea: how about getting a pic with just YOU in it!?
3) People with highly-compressed JPG images
Don't get me wrong, but sending me JPGs is fine with me. But if it gets to the point where the file is so messed up that I can't make out the person's face, then it's a problem. But it could be worse:
3a) People who send me highly-compressed JPG images that I have to cutout for transperency
Of all the aggrevating things, this one takes the cake, the ice cream, and the batted remnants of the pinata. To give you some idea, when a JPG file is saved in MS Paint (which I swear by never to use in your life under any circumstances), it messes up the colors of the image when saved. Thus, when I have to work on it (let's say it's cutting out a logo), there's specks and crap everywhere and it just gives me a headache. But that's just solely on my end.
4) Unresized images
yes, I would like to see a picture of you and your friend. No, I would not like to see up both your respective nasal passages. Unless you're sending me a trace cutout for a mural, resize it so I don't have to view your picture from a helicopter.
5) 90 degree flips
This is more for the HotorNot sites, and there's nothing worse than when it's a picture of a cute person flipped the wrong way. Save yourself, me, and the rest of the people looking at your profile pic some neck pain and give it a good kick to the side to make it all vertical.
It's the artist blood inside me that boils everytime I'm on one of those HotorNot sites and I see people absolutely botch the pictures they put up there. Here's Top 5 imaging aggrevations:
1) person scans a wallet sized photo and saves the file monstrously huge with white space
nothing more aggrevating than treasure mapping across white space cropping out your little rinky dink wallet photo from a 2 MB file.
2) To show who is who in a picture, they either scratch out the other faces or draw a "me" with a crude arrow pointing to them
Nothing says "I'm lazy" than stating who you are in a picture of you and your friends by drawing an ugly white arrow to you, thus ruining the entire photo in the process. Here's a better idea: how about getting a pic with just YOU in it!?
3) People with highly-compressed JPG images
Don't get me wrong, but sending me JPGs is fine with me. But if it gets to the point where the file is so messed up that I can't make out the person's face, then it's a problem. But it could be worse:
3a) People who send me highly-compressed JPG images that I have to cutout for transperency
Of all the aggrevating things, this one takes the cake, the ice cream, and the batted remnants of the pinata. To give you some idea, when a JPG file is saved in MS Paint (which I swear by never to use in your life under any circumstances), it messes up the colors of the image when saved. Thus, when I have to work on it (let's say it's cutting out a logo), there's specks and crap everywhere and it just gives me a headache. But that's just solely on my end.
4) Unresized images
yes, I would like to see a picture of you and your friend. No, I would not like to see up both your respective nasal passages. Unless you're sending me a trace cutout for a mural, resize it so I don't have to view your picture from a helicopter.
5) 90 degree flips
This is more for the HotorNot sites, and there's nothing worse than when it's a picture of a cute person flipped the wrong way. Save yourself, me, and the rest of the people looking at your profile pic some neck pain and give it a good kick to the side to make it all vertical.
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