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Ok, here's my new blog banner.

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And, just for comparison, the existing blog banner that will be replaced (I change banners with the seasons).

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Everyone pictured in the old...

And this is Jeff, number six.

The next step will be to assemble these into a strip that will be used as a blog header, and add some finishing touches.

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Hi Gary! Nice to see you're still here. :)

This is Doyle, the gunslinger.

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All of these are done from photos taken in bright sun, so (unfortunately) everyone is wearing sunglasses.

These two are Larry and Pat, respectively, and I'm caught up for now.

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Thanks Larry. :)

In retrospect, I probably should have posted this in the Xara gallery, as the images are all 100% Xara. My previous posts were here because I was showing works that were...

Hi all! The last thing I posted here was in 2008, so not many of you will recognize me, but I still use the latest version of Xara on odds and ends. I've been retired since 2008 and, well, I've...

Thanks, Bill, and a Happy Birthday to you as well. :)

In my time zone it's still your birthday, and mine doesn't kick in for another (checks clock) 3 1/2 hours. Number 67, BTW. Where does the...

Thank you all for the kind words. :)

Hi John! I probably will be posting here more often in the future. I'm retired now, and I have more time for (as my wife calls it) "computer games"...

Time for my semi-annual post. :)

The background is a snip from a photo offered on the web as Windows Wallpaper, and it purports to be sunset in The Everglades. The image of the egret was created...

Thanks for the kind words, all. And Randy, congratulations on your first sailplane lesson, and welcome to talkgraphics... :)

I posted this over on the SketchUcation forum, but I thought it might be appropriate here as well. It was modeled in SketchUp, rendered in Kerkythea, and finished in Xara Xtreme 4. It's the first...

Hi Bill!

Thanks for the note. I still stop by to see what's new, but I just use Xara for photo tweaking these days. I have been keeping current with the releases, though -- I'd hate to see such...

There are lots of disposable digital cameras available. They've been available for quite a while.

http://www.disposabledigitalcameras.org/

Hi Mike!

I just dropped in for a short visit, and I had to check out the X3D forum. I see you're still up to your old tricks, making impossible images in X3D. :D

Don't ever change... ;)

Thanks, Bill! I got an auto-generated email note from Talkgraphics yesterday, so I stopped by again to say hello.

I still use Xara quite a bit for miscellaneous design work, but it's always been...

An update.

Unregistered User posted on May 25th:

"Evidentiary documentation must be taken on film cameras due to the ease of manipulation of digital images so I think that film is here to...

I voted for dead.

It's not completely dead, only mostly dead, like Wesley in the Princess Bride. :)

It's dead in the dentist's office. I had my annual x-ray exam yesterday, and the new...

Grafixman,

They came up with animated PNGs in back in 1996. The file type is MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics), but it just hasn't caught on.

Check it out here:...

Gary,

I switched your pictures left to right, and now they work well for those of us who can cross our eyes. :D

Thanks! And Happy Birthday to you, too!

All the best people were born in February... :D

Mike,

Excellent image, as usual. :)

Fascinating object -- I had no idea such a thing ever existed.

I made some animations last spring using shapes created with the star tool.

Here's some gears:

Great image, Gray! A lot of time went into that... :)

Antony,

While looking up an unknown file suffix on FileInfo.net, I checked to see what they said about .xar, and I found that they hadn't listed it.

Since they offered an update mechanism, I...

Beautiful, Mike! I really like it.

I went back and looked at your earlier versions, and I think it's the lighting that makes all the difference on this one. The earlier ones were flat, but this...