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rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 12:21
Hi,

I am putting the finishing touches to my first website. I need a photo to go on the front cover and throughout the website. Hopefully when I get more into photography I will have better ones to replace it.

www.leehughes.co.uk

I have this photo in RAW format. Any advice on how to make this look bearable?
Flo
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:22
Probably just my side here, but it takes forever to load:confused:
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:22
Aww man.. just one thing after an other :( lol
Flo
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:26
1:28 to load;) But I will look now.
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:29
jesus! Do you mind telling me what browser + OS you have please? Just so I can have a look and see what's wrong cause everything is fine on my side.....

Think am gonna ditch the photo to be honest...I will just have to delay the deadline and wait for a better photo.. Just trying to work with whatever I had lying around you see :)
Flo
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:29
First pano is an odd crop.you have cut the sailboat out? Maybe just crop above the sail and mast?
Second shot is nice, but it the same throughout the rest of the headers?
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:31
sorry, i should have explained... the first photo (kili) is the one am not happy with. The colourful photo is not mine and I just used that as a placeholder while i designed around the site
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:32
first photo being the home page that is
brandon9585
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:35
No wonder it's taking so long. The header picture is saved as a 16 bit PNG file. Save it as an 8 bit JPEG and the size drops to about 100KB. Also my opinion here, but I'd crop the picture down further to get rid of the tree line at the bottom and also integrate your title text into the picture itself.
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 13:38
erkk sorry...

Glad someone pointed that out to me, thanks..
Traumuh
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 16:51
Is this your portfolio? Are you coding it yourself?
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 16:53
hi,

Yes am coding it myself, hence the crappy look it has lol.. only started it 3 weeks ago..

It's for a expedition am planning
Traumuh
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 16:55
I can design it if you can code it haha.
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 16:56
with 3 weeks coding experience lol not likely ;)
Traumuh
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 16:57
Can I have a go at it anyway? I'm bored.
canonnoob
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 16:58
I agree.. It takes quite a while to load.
rhythmofthecosmos
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 17:00
go nuts man, I can't afford to pay you though.. if u just wanna play with it go for it

@canonnoob shouldn't do I changed the picture over, it's now 224k
Traumuh
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 17:44
I wouldn't ask you for money.
canonnoob
14th of July 2009 (Tue), 18:04
still takes awhile and im on an 8mb/s service... it also looks extremely stretched on my monitor...
Flo
15th of July 2009 (Wed), 00:35
Quicker now.like the better crop.but it does look like it was stretched...
rhythmofthecosmos
15th of July 2009 (Wed), 04:40
Yeah am ditching the photo, just thought it could be edited to make it bearable till I get some new shots up. Obviously not..


Thanks :)