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04/26/2007 05:38:15 PM · #1 |
| The thin black border on Challenge and Portfolio image pages - can you get rid of it or make it a user preference or an image preference? |
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04/26/2007 07:09:18 PM · #2 |
bump. Wow, I love how everyone just pounced on this critical issue. ;-)
I'm sure there is some reason people like the border - I don't, but I would like to hear a case for keeping it. |
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04/26/2007 07:10:12 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
bump. Wow, I love how everyone just pounced on this critical issue. ;-)
I'm sure there is some reason people like the border - I don't, but I would like to hear a case for keeping it. |
Looks better on the majority of photos. |
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04/26/2007 07:11:43 PM · #4 |
| Unfortunately, no you can't. I dislike it too. |
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04/26/2007 07:16:43 PM · #5 |
If there were no border, wouldn't the image just kind of ooze down to the bottom of the page like an amorphous blob?
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04/26/2007 07:34:24 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Unfortunately, no you can't. I dislike it too. |
what, you can't add border=none or some such to the style sheets? |
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04/26/2007 07:44:03 PM · #7 |
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04/26/2007 07:53:33 PM · #8 |
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04/26/2007 08:00:52 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
The thin black border on Challenge and Portfolio image pages - can you get rid of it or make it a user preference or an image preference? |
Actually make a big black border on your image and all of a sudden you no longer see a thin black border.... mAgic! |
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04/26/2007 08:01:06 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
Why don't you like it? |
It's actually a tad intrusive. In some photos, in my opinion, it has a destructive effect. Part of the shame may also be that it has to be taken into account for challenge entries. |
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04/26/2007 08:04:02 PM · #11 |
Plus I am thinking Art wants to make a 'pseudo' transparent image, and with a boarder it destroys the effect. Thought about that a long time ago.. Would be really fun to do... but, border nightmares ruin it. )-;
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04/26/2007 08:04:54 PM · #12 |
| While they're at it, they should lose the border around the portfolio image too. I tried messing with it like that... to no good effect. |
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04/26/2007 08:06:03 PM · #13 |
I'm a little nervous that this suggestion is coming from the likes of Art Roflmao. I figure he's got some evil plan up his sleeve and he'll create some images that will be able to roam free, untrapped by borders.
:-O
Actually, with borders as an option we could do some fun stuff.... hmmm.
Message edited by author 2007-04-26 20:06:42.
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04/26/2007 08:10:30 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
The thin black border on Challenge and Portfolio image pages - can you get rid of it or make it a user preference or an image preference? |
It's a matter of taste of course, but I think it's a good border (this coming from a confirmed border-hater). It's very thin, modest, and almost completely unnoticed until someone points it out. Any border that almost nobody notices is a good border.
Does it serve a purpose? I'd have to see the site design without the border so I could compare, but I can say, it's never bothered me. Big, thick, noticeable borders are bad borders, IMO. |
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04/26/2007 08:13:53 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Big, thick, noticeable borders are bad borders, IMO. |
Yep, especially when they never do dishes and leave their clothes lying about! |
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04/26/2007 08:23:19 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Big, thick, noticeable borders are bad borders, IMO. |
Yep, especially when they never do dishes and leave their clothes lying about! |
And leave the toilet seat up
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04/26/2007 08:26:56 PM · #17 |
Be it for me to reveal a bias but I'd kinda like to see all borders disallowed. I don't like to see good image space wasted with a border.
But to be fair I don't let bad borders negatively influence my voting on an image.
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04/26/2007 09:29:37 PM · #18 |
It serves one purpose I can think of, which is to clearly define the edge of the image. Without it, you can have a photo which has predominantly light gray edges, and which will blend into the page background, making the image look either larger or smaller depending on how the effect was used.
Likewise, the page background is the same neutral gray used by photo editors and printers to best ensure accurate color perception and to provide standardized viewing conditions. |
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04/26/2007 10:17:17 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
It serves one purpose I can think of, which is to clearly define the edge of the image. Without it, you can have a photo which has predominantly light gray edges, and which will blend into the page background, making the image look either larger or smaller depending on how the effect was used. |
Kinda think that was the point in getting rid of them 6-;
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04/26/2007 10:53:22 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
It's a matter of taste of course, but I think it's a good border (this coming from a confirmed border-hater). It's very thin, modest, and almost completely unnoticed until someone points it out. Any border that almost nobody notices is a good border.
Does it serve a purpose?... |
Ditto. It defines most images without attracting attention to itself.
"Beauty is aptness to purpose." [Ezra Pound] |
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04/26/2007 11:02:37 PM · #21 |
Well I think it came from me asking how I can crop my image to a triangular shape or any other shape like a parallelagram for instance, in another forum. But when you try it, DPC just puts a rectangular box around it anyways so ... well for a .jpg anyways, which is the format you must submit challenge photos in and which doesn't work with transparent backgrounds ...
It is NOT a matter of taste ... it is a matter of no choice. If you wanted a one or two pixel black border around your image before it got plunked on the neutral grey background, then you could DO it easily enough. If you did not want to do that then you could put, say, a Pentagram shaped image on a transparent background (or the exact grey background that they use here) and VOILA! ... artful options ...
Mind you ... while thrashing around with this dilemma, I came up with a somewhat acceptible partial solution and will be entering an example of it one of these days ... :)
Message edited by author 2007-04-26 23:10:24.
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04/26/2007 11:16:58 PM · #22 |
| my vote is on removing that thin border. |
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04/26/2007 11:19:41 PM · #23 |
Some funny stuff in this thread. I've actually considered submitting this idea also and I'm glad someone did.
Currently it appears to match Photoshop pretty accurately (the border that Photoshop displayes on images, I mean), but I would like it removed also â€Â¦ or a choice would be even better i suppose.
If the idea is feasable, perhaps a vote on the topic would be in order.
Message edited by author 2007-04-26 23:20:48. |
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04/26/2007 11:23:12 PM · #24 |
Blasphemy I say. Photos shalt be rectangular.
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