Star Fleet 2010

Just a heads up if you use EXRTrader which is a plugin by DB&W for exporting EXR files was updated!

EXRTRADER 1.5 is now avalible for those who use it, Quoted is their release info remember you can get to their site at http://www.db-w.com/

This release features a number of feature requests from our user as well as a tweaks to the user interface, the presets system and an expanded user manual.

Changes since V1.5

Added support for writing OpenEXR data windows depending on the content of the buffers. This descreases the size of image files and speeds up loading and compositing in applications that support the OpenEXR data window (such as Fusion 6, Nuke or Shake) Updated the presets to allow for user defined directories.

Added the Pixel Inspector to the VIPER preview Various minor tweaks, such as adding a dedicated VIPER button the main user interface to toggle VIPER.

Minor bugfixes, mainly to the presets system

The free update is available in our downloads section.

Best Regards,

Dagmar and Mike.

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Regards,

The db&w Support Forum Team.

Knowing as I do how well the db&w team’s gear works.. this is great news.. EXRTrader is a great plugin for LW.

Nothing definant yet but I might end up teaching some basic 3D modelling and animation stuff, If I do I may look at adding the material from it up in the tutorials section or at least parts.

This won’t be full video tutorials more likely just the notes etc.

Top Shot of Tiles

Well even with the pain killers it’s still hurting like a bitch, so I will likely have to find the larger pain killers. Trying to distract myself I have redone one or two peices of the Domus.. They are in the Gallery section of the Portfolio’s 3D section. A sample is at the start of this post.

Ok first off the Change to both sites is something that was meant to be done but hadn’t it was done simply to make the damned thing do it, what it does is make the update so the website stays normal, This is done to make the website neat, all posts can still be accessed.

On top of that I have had to take some pain killers so I figure hell I’d post something to do with Art due to not being able to get to sleep until they kick in. So for this one we will post about printing.

What you first have to understand is that printing an image on a printer is diffrent to viewing it on your screen, for a start your printer typically prints at 150 – 300 DPI (Dots per square inch) so for a start you have to MAKE certain that your images are this size, why? Because your image is typically at 72dpi so on larger prints it can be very very pixalated or show rather small when printed due to this you always have it at 150 or 300dpi, this means you will have an image that looks right when it prints.

Second off you need to understand that when you print it does not print in the same way as your monitor works, for a start your monitor works on RGB or Red, Green and Blue (the primary colors) however a printer doesn’t actually emit light instead (as I have had pointed out to me by Ivan (my sisters husband) once and I actually tried to argue against but hey he was right and I did screw that one up) it works on CMYK or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key Black, it uses these colors instead to get all of the main color’s.

So with this in mind you should remember that most packages ALLOW you to work in CMYK mode rather then RGB, if you don’t have the image in this format the printer or program will have to convert it on the fly and you may not get the actual colors you are after, so always change to CMYK first and double check the image if you have not been working in it to begin with.

Also remember that certain inks, like certain paints may list as X color but actually be slightly different as such you should if your program allows it use those specific colors, however most times you can not.

So now you know that you need 150-300dpi and CMYK, Now that explains a lot of the printing details.

Now you have to actually begin testing that is the mian part just testing over and over as best you can until you get to the point that you can be happy with the image.

So unless I find something else that jumps to mind to tell you I have to wait for pain killers to kick in.

Craig sent me these photo’s he took of the River and Lake out at wagga after the big ass storms and rains that went through over the weekend. God it’s a lot of rain!

Images copyright 2010 Craig Crawford: