Write up a WOW FAQ. I will provide web space and when someone asks you can just point them to the FAQ.
Same for Shel, write a PAW FAQ and I will put that up also.
That will save everybody from answering the same questions over and over.
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Lasse Karlsson wrote:
From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'll try again with this thread. What does WOW stand for?
Steven Desjardins
Steve, I just reiterate the parts of a few of messages where WOW came about.From there it just caught on to become a small PDML digital organism of it's own...
Everyone is welcome to be part of it.
Lasse
From: "Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Dave's pictures (Was: PAW: fresh out of scanner)
Anyway, I had this idea (which actually originates from a feeling similar to your some time back, when I could get my pictures look like I wanted them to look):
You pick one of your pictures (one that you typically had difficulties in gettng right), fresh out of the scanner - send it in a reasonable size to a number of volunteers on the list (I'll be one of them) who will do their finishing and adjustments according to their taste (no competition). The pictures will be put up somewhere for all to see and ponder upon, and you'll be able to see if any of them will be to your liking and the guys who did the job can tell you and all of us what and how they did to it. This way you, and anybody, might get some valuable hints on basic digital photofinishing.
What do you think?
Lasse
From: "Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: WOW (Was: Dave's pictures)
Great. We'll start off this project with one Dave's pictures, when he's got one ready for us.
I'd like to extend this idea further and to the list introduce Workshop of the Week, or WOW for short for the subject line as above. (If anyone got a better suggestion for a subject line ID, speak up.)
Anyone on the list can offer a picture of his/hers and ask for help or just for a second way of finishing it.
Submitted "interpretations" by volunteer photofinishers will be put up on the web. The supplier of the photo, or anybody, can comment and ask about the hows and whats that was done to the picture and probably learn a bit here and there as we proceed. And voilá - eventually the PDML will have gained reputation as the expert digital photofinishers on line! :-) We'll all be experts!
Apart from my kidding, do you think it's a good idea?
Anyone can join or benefit from it in some way.
For this first round on Dave's picture we've so far got Larry from Prescott Butch Black Paul Stenquist and me as volunteers. But there is room for more.
My idea is NOT to make his a competition of who's going to do "the best" version of any picture, but rather to use some basic techniques that will be available for anyone's software, not only for the latest exclusive Photoshop tricks and such. Each participant will keep track of what he/she is doing in order to be able to report it if asked about it. (You could make notes, do screen shots of tools (levels etc) you apply, or maybe even record the steps as actions... Comments welcome.)
What d'ya all think? Shall we give it a try as an ongoing project?
Lasse
And also in another message:
My idea was also that, as someone asks for "a WOW" on a photo, anyone can step in each time and have a go. No one has to commit themselves to continuos work. If you feel like taking on a particular photo, you do it. If not, you just leave it.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
