General Questions Thread

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by devil may cry

is their a way to have an avitar that isnt in the pree chosen ones?

User CP --> Settings and Options --> Edit Avatar

From there, simply select option 2: Upload Image From Your Computer.

[-KarumA-]

Originally Posted by devil may cry

is their a way to have an avitar that isnt in the pree chosen ones?

lol there has always been that choice
in your change avatar screen pick Use custom avatar if you have one
then you can use two methods one is upload them here the other is use the url from another upload area like photobucket

Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 50.0 KB (whichever is smaller).

just keep reckon with that and then you're cool

edit: darn you Daniel!

[devil may cry]

ok thank you that makes me happy now i can have dante as my avatar

[devil may cry]

do any of you know how to sugest a new thread? i wnat one to be started about devil may cry.

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by devil may cry

do any of you know how to sugest a new thread? i wnat one to be started about devil may cry.

If it's for the anime, there's already one here:

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=36438

There's probably another thread(s) in the game section too.

Originally Posted by -KarumA-

edit: darn you Daniel!

Happens all the time to me as well.

[devil may cry]

Originally Posted by Daniel E.

If it's for the anime, there's already one here:

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=36438

There's probably another thread(s) in the game section too.



Happens all the time to me as well.

thanks alot!!

[Cosmic Eagle]

When making sig images, how do you put words on the image?

[ZephyrLeanne]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

When making sig images, how do you put words on the image?

By inserting text with Photoshop or Paint.

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by devil may cry

thanks alot!!

I'm going to strongly recommend you:
1) read the forum rules so you won't get smacked right off the bat.
2) always look for a thread that might work to post in rather than starting a new thread -- use the search tool.
3) learn to use the forum tools; like don't double post trivially - edit the existing post. There are times when a double post is necessary (e.g. new information about a series and you need to bump the thread).

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by ShimatheKat

By inserting text with Photoshop or Paint.

How do you do that with photoshop?

[Daniel E.]

Check out this handy tutorial index that Cats put together back in FC!

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=26533

Of course, if you want the quick answer then......

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

How do you do that with photoshop?

With the type tool!

In Photoshop CS, is the one with the "T" icon on it.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Daniel E.

Check out this handy tutorial index that Cats put together back in FC!

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=26533

Of course, if you want the quick answer then......



With the type tool!

In Photoshop CS, is the one with the "T" icon on it.

.....Durrrr, silly me.

[ZephyrLeanne]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

.....Durrrr, silly me.

Given your age, it's nothing new... I guess you didn't receive any Photoshop training in school, no? I heard that it only was added into the Singapore curriculum 2 years after your batch... so yeah.

A question of my own: What's the reason of the name, Washington DC?

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by ShimatheKat

Given your age, it's nothing new... I guess you didn't receive any Photoshop training in school, no? I heard that it only was added into the Singapore curriculum 2 years after your batch... so yeah.

A question of my own: What's the reason of the name, Washington DC?

No. I largely work on it by experiment. I still don't receive formal training in it.

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by ShimatheKat

A question of my own: What's the reason of the name, Washington DC?

The DC stand for District of Columbia, because that city of Washington is situated in this district ( and not in a state).

[ZephyrLeanne]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

The DC stand for District of Columbia, because that city of Washington is situated in this district ( and not in a state).

OK That I more or less know, but why Columbia? I don't see a state called Columbia in US... But I do see one in Canada...?

[ganbaru]

It's not a state, only a district, they wanted to avoid some problem (which one I don't rembember ) by putting the White House and the Congress out of any state.

And by the way the state in Canada , is the province of Britich Colombia.

[klowny]

Another silly question: what's the difference from 1080i from 1080p? my tv is 1080i and i don't know the difference from 1080p

[ZephyrLeanne]

Originally Posted by klowny

Another silly question: what's the difference from 1080i from 1080p? my tv is 1080i and i don't know the difference from 1080p

1080 is your resolution.
p stands for progressive scan (meaning the image is not interlaced). Apparently, p is more high-tech than i. And p displays better images.

[Ledgem]

A bit more about interlaced vs. progressive:

Interlaced was used for older technology. Screens and monitors worked by constantly refreshing the screen at a very fast rate. Because of the way that the human eye works we would not notice the fact that the screen was not refreshing in a uniform manner, however if you ever aimed a video camera (or even a regular camera and took a picture) at a television then you would notice that it looked strange, because the camera's own internal refresh rate was faster than that of the screen.

Interlacing video took advantage of the screen refresh rate. Video is simply many still frames, all played very quickly. With interlacing, one of those frames had every other row of pixels deleted. The next frame would also have every other row of pixels deleted, but it would offset that of the previous frame. The third frame would be the same (every other row of pixels deleted, but offset from the frame before it), and so on for the entire video. The benefit of this was that a lot of data could be cut out, which was important for broadcasters (both over the air and through cable). Given how fast each frame goes by, combined with the relatively poor resolution of televisions and slightly the idea of refresh rates, nobody noticed interlacing.

Things changed with newer display technologies. An LCD monitor or television did away with refreshing the entire screen at very fast intervals. Instead, your image is produced by pixels that change individually. Partly as a result, interlacing became noticable.

Progressive video is the full video, without the deletions that interlacing entails. As a result it doesn't look strange and one could argue that more detail can be seen.

I'm at the end of what I had to say, but as I wrote this I realized how tired I am; I may have made some errors in my explanation. If you're curious about interlacing there's a good Wikipedia entry on it that I read up on when I started doing work with digital and analogue video (analogue video always had to be deinterlaced). Anyone who notices errors in my post, please reply with corrections.