Another photo question

My first attempt!



Ok this is my first try but tell me what you think? Used a digital microscope to take the picture. Pennies are so hard. Especially when they are dark.

My dad told me a book is coming out in May about photographing coins. He told me he already reserved a copy for me. I can't wait. I so promise to read this one & not just be collecting another book on coins. LOL!
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Ok the image link thingy doesn't want to work.

1877 Indian Head Penny in Good Condition

 

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Very good jgreen. Keep playing around and it'll get easier. Nice Indian head coin! Tough year to get!:thumb:

 

I think the image address must be a URL, not in the computer.

 

ROFLMAO! Luis love your siggy. You mean a URL not linked to Coin talk right?

Thanks Andrew! I did a 2nd one already & it was easier the 2nd time around. *sigh* I like the idea so much I'm going to go and redo only a few coins. Same coin just better condition. Of course these ones are not mine. Although I say every coin in the shop is mine till it's sold. LOL!

Indian Head 1877 Choice Very Fine

Must admit this Gimp program is a bit intimidating with all the buttons but I'm having fun so what if all I manage to do was take 4 pictures today!

 

no, he meant computer... if you take a look at the link address, its root directory is on the C drive. it should begin with 'www.'. All jgreenhood needs to do is upload the photo to a file sharing site like photobucket, or even here on cointalk in the gallery, and then post that link in the img tags.

 

That's the funny part I did stick a URL in it and it doesn't show up. Weird

Oh well!

 

looking good!

 

http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/tutorials/basics/layers.html
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/The_Basics/
http://www.designyourownweb.com/gimp...ayers-gimp.htm

http://www.tankedup-imaging.com/gimp/layers.html
http://www.gilesorr.com/papers/gimp-tutorial/gimp.html
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gim...g_The_GIMP.htm
http://gimp-tutorials.net/30-Ultimat...yles-for+-Gimp
http://www.ufocomes.de/files/basegien.html
http://thesalmonfarm.org/blog/2008/0...g-layer-masks/

 

I can't and actually out of prinicple I won't, help you with Photoshop. But in the gimp, I can help you a lot. First, remember that everything in a computer is just a contruction by human thought to make hardware do what we want. And the hardware itself is just a clever construction as well.

An image is actually a flat, 2 dimensional array of intsructions to your video card to paint each pixil, the smallest dot the video card can interpret, a certain color. All the pixils together form a flat image.

However, when creating an image, we make believe that there is more than one flat image. That is a layer. So we can take part of one image and past it as a layer on another image, and then we can resize that layer or change it, or even move it until we are happy. And then we can flatten the two layers together, back into a flat image.

Or, in some image formats, several layers are in the file and they can be displayed sequentially, to create an animation. Not all image formats have this ability, buf GIF and PNG files do.

See this for some tutorials of the GIMP. They are fun and worthwhile.

Ruben

 

Very informitave, thanks Ruben...

 

my pleasure

 

Ah I'm getting pretty good at this Gimp thing by putting the obverse & reverse in 1 picture. Now to make an animated Gif for a Kennedy set!

 

It won't be long now before your all pro's with the GIMP and GNU software.
Wait until I conduct PHP and Perl Classes

Ruben

 

Ok add me to your waiting list please!

Ok having a hard time finding info on making my gif with gimp. I want it to flip between images slower as well as not having one image show behind another.

 

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/

 

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Advanced_Animations/

 

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/1664.html

 

Ooooh Thanks! To bad I got to go do errands. I want to work on that gif!

 

Time is an element of everyones life. :mouth:

 

This is a Kennedy 1999 - 2003 s proof 68 deep cameo set slabbed by ngc

I tried putting it in the album here on coin talk but it didn't want to work in there.

I made it go really slow. 50,000 milliseconds to be exact so it may look blank for a long period of time.

:hail: