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| Joëlle 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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| Vern Stump 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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Joëlle wrote:
> I found my very ancient Wacom Pen Partner in the cupboard recently and
> re-installed it to see if it worked.
> I don't use brushes very often, so thought it was time to experiment.
> Made a new set of Hair brushes.
> The face is mainly made/shaded with the Chalk brush. Used the Oil
> Brush for the mouth.
> The eyes are a Preset I made some time ago.
> The hair brushes are just random lines of dots, using step 1 to get
> the stripes.
>
> I hope this inspires some more people to play with PSP tools.
>
> Art Media is pretty basic, Deep Paint is sooo much nicer. What a
> shame the owners of this program couldn't have gone down that route...
>
> :-)
> Joëlle
Great inspiration!!!
Vern
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| Barbara J Bradley 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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"Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message
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> I found my very ancient Wacom Pen Partner in the cupboard recently
> and re-installed it to see if it worked.
> I don't use brushes very often, so thought it was time to
> experiment.
> Made a new set of Hair brushes.
> The face is mainly made/shaded with the Chalk brush. Used the Oil
> Brush for the mouth.
> The eyes are a Preset I made some time ago.
> The hair brushes are just random lines of dots, using step 1 to get
> the stripes.
>
> I hope this inspires some more people to play with PSP tools.
>
> Art Media is pretty basic, Deep Paint is sooo much nicer. What a
> shame the owners of this program couldn't have gone down that
> route...
>
> :-)
> Joëlle
Great, Joëlle. I've must stopped reading so much about you
and others doing things and do more myself. :)
Barb
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| Joëlle 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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"Barbara J Bradley" <BarbBrad1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> "Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43fb4532_1@cnews...
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> Great, Joëlle. I've must stopped reading so much about you and
> others doing things and do more myself. :)
> Barb
>
>
Thanks Barb. You could use one of your flower photos, put a new layer on top
and experiment. It's a very relaxing way of doodling :-))
Joëlle
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| Joëlle 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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"Vern Stump" <VictorDog@email.suppressed> wrote in message
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> Joëlle wrote:
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> Great inspiration!!!
>
> Vern
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Thanks Vern. I hope to see one of your doodles soon :-))
Joëlle
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"Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43fb7482_3@cnews...
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> "Barbara J Bradley" <BarbBrad1@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:43fb73a4$1_3@cnews...
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> Thanks Barb. You could use one of your flower photos, put a new layer on
top
> and experiment. It's a very relaxing way of doodling :-))
>
> Joëlle
>
> Just lovely, Joelle.
Gail2
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| vrambach 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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Looks terrific.
Valerie
"Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43fb4532_1@cnews...
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> I found my very ancient Wacom Pen Partner in the cupboard recently and
> re-installed it to see if it worked.
> I don't use brushes very often, so thought it was time to experiment.
> Made a new set of Hair brushes.
> The face is mainly made/shaded with the Chalk brush. Used the Oil Brush
> for the mouth.
> The eyes are a Preset I made some time ago.
> The hair brushes are just random lines of dots, using step 1 to get the
> stripes.
>
> I hope this inspires some more people to play with PSP tools.
>
> Art Media is pretty basic, Deep Paint is sooo much nicer. What a shame the
> owners of this program couldn't have gone down that route...
>
> :-)
> Joëlle
>
>
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| Joëlle 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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Thanks Gail and Valerie :-))
Joëlle
"vrambach" <vrambach@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Looks terrific.
> Valerie
> "Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43fb4532_1@cnews...
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| Linda Nieuwenstein 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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I love the Art Media even with the current limitations. I'm praying that
Corel develops them.
You did great, Joëlle. No surprise there :-) Are your locks really that
locky? We'll have to call you Shirley Temple haha.
Take care,
Linda
"Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43fb4532_1@cnews...
>
> I found my very ancient Wacom Pen Partner in the cupboard recently and
> re-installed it to see if it worked.
> I don't use brushes very often, so thought it was time to experiment.
> Made a new set of Hair brushes.
> The face is mainly made/shaded with the Chalk brush. Used the Oil Brush
> for the mouth.
> The eyes are a Preset I made some time ago.
> The hair brushes are just random lines of dots, using step 1 to get the
> stripes.
>
> I hope this inspires some more people to play with PSP tools.
>
> Art Media is pretty basic, Deep Paint is sooo much nicer. What a shame the
> owners of this program couldn't have gone down that route...
>
> :-)
> Joëlle
>
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| Joëlle 2006-02-24, 10:28 am |
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Hah, I wish.
No that's not me, just a doodle whilst I was watching the Iceskating in
Turin!
Mind you, with the help of Clairol and lots of curlers I*could* have hair
like that. :-))
I do have blue eyes, but that's it.
Bless you for even thinking it was me..
(I've since moved the mouth + nose upwards, they were too low).
It's a shame that PSP almost only get's used for the photographics tools,
there is so much more to play and create with.
:-)
Joëlle
"Linda Nieuwenstein" <buzzball@REMOVETHIS-allstream.net> wrote in message
news:43ff17b9$1_3@cnews...
>
> I love the Art Media even with the current limitations. I'm praying that
> Corel develops them.
>
> You did great, Joëlle. No surprise there :-) Are your locks really that
> locky? We'll have to call you Shirley Temple haha.
>
> Take care,
> Linda
>
> "Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43fb4532_1@cnews...
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| Linda Nieuwenstein 2006-02-26, 6:19 pm |
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"Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43ff1d6a_2@cnews...
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> Hah, I wish.
> No that's not me, just a doodle whilst I was watching the Iceskating in
> Turin!
> Mind you, with the help of Clairol and lots of curlers I*could* have hair
> like that. :-))
> I do have blue eyes, but that's it.
> Bless you for even thinking it was me..
>
> (I've since moved the mouth + nose upwards, they were too low).
>
> It's a shame that PSP almost only get's used for the photographics tools,
> there is so much more to play and create with.
> :-)
> Joëlle
>
Post your remake if you want. I hadn't acknowledged the positioning of the
mouth and nose as right or wrong. The longer face made by the lower
positioning could have been intentional for the feel you wanted to portray
in your piece as the artist. :-) That's the great thing about art, it often
allows us to think outside a narrow box of thought to experience others view
of the world.
I saw a few of the skaters (female freestyle long program). I don't know how
the Canadian skater placed, but most likely 4th haha. We've had 10 (perhaps
11 since yesterday) in various sports who placed 4th sometimes by a 10th of
a second. How nerve wracking.
I had the opportunity to test MS Digital Image Pro 2006 which IS targeted
directly at the enthusiast photographic market with minimal effort exerted
to freestyle art and design. The automatic fixes so far have been quite
impressive on everyday photographs, and we'll be testing more challenging
photographs this week coming that are known to break the automatic features
in most programs. MS is pretty much giving the site licenses away to compete
with Adobe's aggressive grab of the educational market at the enthusiast
level, but already early in the testing many comments have been made by
faculty and students that the lack of artistic tools makes the program less
than desired. There are a lot of people who think just like you, and I'm
quite certain that Corel is coming around to that fact. Go multi-usage go.
:-)
Take care,
Linda
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| Linda Nieuwenstein 2006-02-26, 6:19 pm |
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"Linda Nieuwenstein" wrote
> I had the opportunity to test MS Digital Image Pro 2006 >
That should have read MS Digital Image Suite 2006.
Take care,
Linda
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| Joëlle 2006-02-26, 6:19 pm |
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"Linda Nieuwenstein" <buzzball@REMOVETHIS-allstream.net> wrote in message
news:44019d3d_1@cnews...
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> "Joëlle" <zaba@zaba.inthepond> wrote in message news:43ff1d6a_2@cnews...
>
> Post your remake if you want. I hadn't acknowledged the positioning of the
> mouth and nose as right or wrong. The longer face made by the lower
> positioning could have been intentional for the feel you wanted to portray
> in your piece as the artist. :-) That's the great thing about art, it
> often allows us to think outside a narrow box of thought to experience
> others view of the world.
>
> I saw a few of the skaters (female freestyle long program). I don't know
> how the Canadian skater placed, but most likely 4th haha. We've had 10
> (perhaps 11 since yesterday) in various sports who placed 4th sometimes by
> a 10th of a second. How nerve wracking.
>
> I had the opportunity to test MS Digital Image Pro 2006 which IS targeted
> directly at the enthusiast photographic market with minimal effort exerted
> to freestyle art and design. The automatic fixes so far have been quite
> impressive on everyday photographs, and we'll be testing more challenging
> photographs this week coming that are known to break the automatic
> features in most programs. MS is pretty much giving the site licenses away
> to compete with Adobe's aggressive grab of the educational market at the
> enthusiast level, but already early in the testing many comments have been
> made by faculty and students that the lack of artistic tools makes the
> program less than desired. There are a lot of people who think just like
> you, and I'm quite certain that Corel is coming around to that fact. Go
> multi-usage go. :-)
>
> Take care,
> Linda
>
>
I won't bother with a re-post, but thanks for suggesting it:-)
I've loved watching the skating (tv is on my pc, so don't have to look
elsewhere and get too distracted!). All that energy, I wish I had just one
tiny percent of that :-))
Yeah (wry smile) Adobe are a *bit* grabby.
My elderly PenPartner wasn't performing as I remember it used to (I'd
forgotten to set it up, oh dear another senior moment), so I looked at
various Wacon tablets online, only to see that everything is bundled with
Elements, Jasc/Corel missed a trick there.
I shall stick with what I've got and have now set up my tablet, it works
fine. As I have never used one of those expensive tablets I can't miss or
lust after it.
I have seen MS Digital Image in the shops. The digital imaging cake is
getting very sliced up, I hope PSP doesn't get pushed out.
:-)
Joëlle
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| Linda Nieuwenstein 2006-02-26, 10:16 pm |
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"Joëlle" wrote
> I won't bother with a re-post, but thanks for suggesting it:-)
>
> I've loved watching the skating (tv is on my pc, so don't have to look
> elsewhere and get too distracted!). All that energy, I wish I had just one
> tiny percent of that :-))
>
> Yeah (wry smile) Adobe are a *bit* grabby.
> My elderly PenPartner wasn't performing as I remember it used to (I'd
> forgotten to set it up, oh dear another senior moment), so I looked at
> various Wacon tablets online, only to see that everything is bundled with
> Elements, Jasc/Corel missed a trick there.
> I shall stick with what I've got and have now set up my tablet, it works
> fine. As I have never used one of those expensive tablets I can't miss or
> lust after it.
>
> I have seen MS Digital Image in the shops. The digital imaging cake is
> getting very sliced up, I hope PSP doesn't get pushed out.
>
> :-)
> Joëlle
Did you watch the winners in figure skating doing a complimentary skate for
the closing ceremonies today?
I used to enjoy watching figure skating until the woman was dropped on her
face not so long ago. There was never any question that something bad could
happen, but it took actually witnessing a serious drop to ruin my viewing
pleasure.
A while back I was looking into a tv tuner for a laptop, but got busy with
other things. Thanks for the reminder :-)
I'm with you on the digital cake slicing, and that's exactly why I'm
thinking Corel would be playing it very risky to make PSP 'only' a digital
photography program. They're a dime a dozen already.
Take care,
Linda
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| Joëlle 2006-02-26, 10:16 pm |
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"Linda Nieuwenstein" <buzzball@REMOVETHIS-allstream.net> wrote in message
news:440237fc_3@cnews...
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> "Joëlle" wrote
>
> Did you watch the winners in figure skating doing a complimentary skate
> for the closing ceremonies today?
>
> I used to enjoy watching figure skating until the woman was dropped on her
> face not so long ago. There was never any question that something bad
> could happen, but it took actually witnessing a serious drop to ruin my
> viewing pleasure.
>
> A while back I was looking into a tv tuner for a laptop, but got busy with
> other things. Thanks for the reminder :-)
>
> I'm with you on the digital cake slicing, and that's exactly why I'm
> thinking Corel would be playing it very risky to make PSP 'only' a digital
> photography program. They're a dime a dozen already.
>
> Take care,
> Linda
My pc tv is now digital, the old analogue was not very clear, but this is
great.
TV tuners are not very expensive and quick to install.
I watched all of the Skating Gala, quite brilliant, especially the violinist
playing his heart out standing in the middle of the rink.
It's athletic, elegant and pretty to watch, on top of which I don't have to
do a thing, just admire all that artistry (and doodle).
It does cheer a person up to see all these enthusiastic young people having
such a nice time.
I watched the Closing Ceremony tonight and saw the Olympic flag handed over
to the Mayor of Vancouver, Go Canada Go!
Night night. (it's after midnight here)
:-)
Joëlle
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| ken45140 2006-02-27, 6:21 pm |
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Jo=EBlle wrote:
> Art Media is pretty basic, Deep Paint is sooo much nicer. What a shame =
the=20
> owners of this program couldn't have gone down that route...
>=20
> :-)
> Jo=EBlle
Joelle: "...Deep Paint is sooo much nicer." My eye caught this and I=20
have to ask....do you know any resource sites for Deep Paint, or books,=20
or PDFs, etc?? I have been working with DP for several weeks now,=20
making some progress. It is one of the most powerful photo-art/painting=20
programs I have come across (perhaps not quite as powerful as Painter,=20
but for the price ($zero), it sure beats Painter on a feature/dollar=20
basis.) But the lack of resource material has had me learning in a true=20
trial and error manner, and falling short in a number of areas. This=20
has been frustrating, that I can not get the power out of this program=20
like I think I should. I ordered an out-of-print book that is purported=20
to show how to use it; it has not yet arrived.
Do you use it regularly? Share some more please.
Thanks,
Ken
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| Joëlle 2006-02-27, 6:21 pm |
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| ken45140 2006-02-27, 6:21 pm |
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Spandex Rutabaga wrote:
> ken45140 wrote:
>=20
the[color=darkred]
>=20
>=20
> I've temporarily changed my name to Jo=EBlle Rutabaga.
>=20
> Tutorials
> http://tinyurl.com/kuy94
> http://tinyurl.com/cjcm6
> http://tinyurl.com/hp3xj
> Book
> http://tinyurl.com/h36sa
>=20
Hey JR, aka SR :): Super links, while I have been actively posting=20
over on ReTouch, and have the tut written there as well as the second=20
one you listed, the third was one I did not find (Google skills need=20
enhancing). Thanks for the links!
The book (your last link) was waiting on my doorstep while I was writing=20
my reply to the real Joelle. ($44 list price, available for $3 +=20
shipping---a nice bargain if you want more on DP). I have glanced thru=20
it and it has a lot of good stuff...clearly not a command recitation=20
like the PSP8 and PSP9 manuals, but rather an Artwork/Painting/Sketching=20
primer, with sidebar and paragraph instructions/suggestions for taking=20
steps within Deep Paint.
Deep Paint has various capabilities that seem to outstrip all but=20
Painter (and maybe even it, since I do not own it). One of its more=20
powerful is its three simultaneous channels (color, bump (grey) and=20
shine (white)) all designed to give you depth and oil paint realism=20
while you paint. Its brush controls are numerous and varied and the=20
combinations and permutations extend far. Many are non-intuitive,=20
however, hence my desire for further written guidance. There are many=20
photo editing commands included. One I like is being able to set the=20
"Paint" on a brush to many photo effect features. So you can have a=20
Brush that can selectively blur, sharpen, invert, edge detect, multiply,=20
tint, darken, desaturate, or emboss whatever parts of an image you want,=20
but by "painting" the effect in place. There is even something called=20
an "alpha paint", which can be assigned to a brush--I have no idea what=20
it does but it sounds exotic.
All in all, a great program, IMHO. For the uninitiated, Deep Paint 2D=20
(the subject here) is a discontinued and unsupported program and is=20
available as a free download. Deep Paint 3D is the current commercial=20
program of RightHemisphere and is used in combination with a number of=20
very high end rendering and digital art/movie/video software packages.
I'll post some examples whenever I produce something worth sharing.
Thanks Joelle Rutabaga :)
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| Linda Nieuwenstein 2006-02-27, 10:17 pm |
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>"Joëlle" wrote My pc tv is now digital, the old analogue was not very
>clear, but this is great.
> TV tuners are not very expensive and quick to install.
>
> I watched all of the Skating Gala, quite brilliant, especially the
> violinist playing his heart out standing in the middle of the rink.
> It's athletic, elegant and pretty to watch, on top of which I don't have
> to do a thing, just admire all that artistry (and doodle).
> It does cheer a person up to see all these enthusiastic young people
> having such a nice time.
> I watched the Closing Ceremony tonight and saw the Olympic flag handed
> over to the Mayor of Vancouver, Go Canada Go!
>
> Night night. (it's after midnight here)
> :-)
> Joëlle
>
I'm hoping a good laptop tv tuner will not be too hard to secure locally not
that tv on pc is more popular than last time I researched. To have digital
does that mean you have a digital cable tv running into your computer or is
it picking up a terrestrial broadcast on its own?
I'm thinking about going to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I'm
definitely going to the Common Wealth Games if Halifax wins the bid over the
other Cities Canadian Cities that are bidding. Halifax is always a great
host for events like that...that's why The Worlds for figure skating is
coming back for a second time in a short time. Maybe you'll make it!
Take care,
Linda
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| Spandex Rutabaga 2006-02-27, 10:17 pm |
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ken45140 wrote:
> Deep Paint has various capabilities that seem to outstrip all but
> Painter (and maybe even it, since I do not own it). One of its more
> powerful is its three simultaneous channels (color, bump (grey) and
> shine (white)) all designed to give you depth and oil paint realism
> while you paint.
If you look carefully at the brush strokes for, say, the oil brush
in PSP it looks like bumps and specular reflections are present.
However, I think that all the details are buried inside PSP. In all
likelihood all the artistic media use the same engine but have
different hidden parameters. On the one hand that makes the tools
simpler and you don't need the kind of tutorial back-up you need
for Deep Paint. On the other hand the result is not as flexible as
Deep Paint. A further complication is that the PSP brushes use a
painterly paradigm but don't work like real life media. This
mystifies people who have never painted in real life and frustrates
those who are painters.
> Its brush controls are numerous and varied and the
> combinations and permutations extend far. Many are non-intuitive,
> however, hence my desire for further written guidance.
What I said :) Whenever you render something you have a situation
where one setting interacts with another so that adjustments or
securing a particular look can be quite tricky. It's a bit like
messing around with the Balls and Bubbles filter with brush dynamics
thrown in.
> There are many
> photo editing commands included. One I like is being able to set the
> "Paint" on a brush to many photo effect features. So you can have a
> Brush that can selectively blur, sharpen, invert, edge detect, multiply,
> tint, darken, desaturate, or emboss whatever parts of an image you want,
> but by "painting" the effect in place.
In PSP you can blur, sharpen, change to target, darken, desaturate
and emboss using brushes. By picking a blend mode to use with a brush
you can multiply and invert.
> There is even something called
> an "alpha paint", which can be assigned to a brush--I have no idea what
> it does but it sounds exotic.
It may paint transparency, similarly to masking.
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| Joëlle 2006-02-28, 6:27 pm |
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"Linda Nieuwenstein" <buzzball@REMOVETHIS-allstream.net> wrote in message
news:44038fa7$1_3@cnews...
>
>
> I'm hoping a good laptop tv tuner will not be too hard to secure locally
> not that tv on pc is more popular than last time I researched. To have
> digital does that mean you have a digital cable tv running into your
> computer or is it picking up a terrestrial broadcast on its own?
>
> I'm thinking about going to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I'm
> definitely going to the Common Wealth Games if Halifax wins the bid over
> the other Cities Canadian Cities that are bidding. Halifax is always a
> great host for events like that...that's why The Worlds for figure skating
> is coming back for a second time in a short time. Maybe you'll make it!
>
> Take care,
> Linda
>
>
Yes, I have a cable plugged into the back of my computer.
TV reception in this part of the UK (West Sussex) is by either antenna, or
some cable.
When the old antenna died a death we 'went digital'.
(Analogue signals are due to be switched off in 10 or so years time).
The picture is very good, but the jury is out on being able to receive
everything we could receive before! When the signal is good, the picture is
good, if not, there is nothing - other than 'no signal' on the screen.
We don't have the same amount of choice as in the US where there appear to
be zillions tv stations.
Not that I would enjoy that anyway.
The advantage of having tv on the monitor is that it is a bit like radio
with pictures. I often minimize it to the taskbar and just listen, or make
the screen very small.
You can get plug-in tv 'cards' with a USB2 connection, slightly more
expensive, but if you are attaching it to a laptop, it might be easier than
opening and rummaging around inside!
How far is Vancouver from where you live?
Canada is so huge and it's hard to get an idea of distance when one is used
to the UK.
With the 2012 Olympics in London it will be reasonably easy to get there, we
live 1 hour south of London (by train). Unfortunately you need to sell your
house to afford the train fare! So might just watch it on TV.
:-)
Joëlle
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| Linda Nieuwenstein 2006-03-04, 6:21 pm |
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>"Joëlle" wrote...
>
> TV reception in this part of the UK (West Sussex) is by either antenna, or
> some cable.
>
><some snipped out for easier reading of reply>
>
>How far is Vancouver from where you live?
>Canada is so huge and it's hard to get an idea of distance when one is used
>to the UK
>
A friend and I were flipping through his 280+ satellite stations the other
day and we ended up on a British tv station watching a show that was very
funny. We did not see the name of the show though, and have not lucked into
it again. Perhaps you know if given a description. The show is about a
family of 4 (Mom, Dad, Daughter (early teens), Son (maybe age 8 to 10). The
Dad works as a taxi cab company where he has a good male friend (I think the
friend is either the owner or in charge of the other drivers). Dad is
secretly (well a secret to his wife, but not to his friend) in love with a
barmaid at a tavern the friend and Dad frequent. The barmaid is of course a
Barbie doll type woman with a Dolly Parton build. The show is a comedy with
lots of sexual inuendo, but it is presented very cleanly so the show stays
focused on comedy not sex itself. In this particular espisode the Mom
thought the Dad was falling out of love with her (in the show they even
showed her daydreams about it), and when she tried to probe him for answers
without letting him know what her real concern was his answers supported her
fear in the most comical of ways. The show also had scenes where he was
driving the cab and talking to customers, and these conversations were
equally as funny even though the customers didn't think so. Hopefully
something here rings familiar with you so you could identify the name of the
show for us.
How far is Vancouver from me? To give you an idea of the massive save of
Canada here is the kilometers for me to get to Vancouver Canada and London
United Kingdom, both trips leaving Halifax, NS, Canada. Distance is 4433kms
from Halifax, NS to Vancouver, BC. Distance is 4631kms from Halifax, NS to
London, UK. Imagine that! It is often cheaper for me to fly to various
European countries than it is for me to fly across my own country!
Take care,
Linda
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| Joëlle 2006-03-04, 6:21 pm |
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"Linda Nieuwenstein" <buzzball@REMOVETHIS-allstream.net> wrote in message
news:4409a839$1_2@cnews...
>
>
> A friend and I were flipping through his 280+ satellite stations the other
> day and we ended up on a British tv station watching a show that was very
> funny. We did not see the name of the show though, and have not lucked
> into it again. Perhaps you know if given a description. The show is about
> a family of 4 (Mom, Dad, Daughter (early teens), Son (maybe age 8 to 10).
> The Dad works as a taxi cab company where he has a good male friend (I
> think the friend is either the owner or in charge of the other drivers).
> Dad is secretly (well a secret to his wife, but not to his friend) in love
> with a barmaid at a tavern the friend and Dad frequent. The barmaid is of
> course a Barbie doll type woman with a Dolly Parton build. The show is a
> comedy with lots of sexual inuendo, but it is presented very cleanly so
> the show stays focused on comedy not sex itself. In this particular
> espisode the Mom thought the Dad was falling out of love with her (in the
> show they even showed her daydreams about it), and when she tried to probe
> him for answers without letting him know what her real concern was his
> answers supported her fear in the most comical of ways. The show also had
> scenes where he was driving the cab and talking to customers, and these
> conversations were equally as funny even though the customers didn't think
> so. Hopefully something here rings familiar with you so you could
> identify the name of the show for us.
>
> How far is Vancouver from me? To give you an idea of the massive save of
> Canada here is the kilometers for me to get to Vancouver Canada and London
> United Kingdom, both trips leaving Halifax, NS, Canada. Distance is
> 4433kms from Halifax, NS to Vancouver, BC. Distance is 4631kms from
> Halifax, NS to London, UK. Imagine that! It is often cheaper for me to fly
> to various European countries than it is for me to fly across my own
> country!
>
> Take care,
> Linda
>
>
>
>
Yikes, 280+ tv stations. One needs a lifetime to work through that many :-)
Thanks for description of the show, unfortunately it doesn't ring any bells.
I will do some investigating, maybe someone else might know.
Could you tell from the clothing/car models how recent this show was?
Ah, yes, distances in Canada are something anyone living in the UK can't get
their head around :-) It's similar here, usually cheaper to fly to the
Continent than travelling within the UK.
:-)
Joëlle
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| Linda Nieuwenstein 2006-03-09, 6:30 pm |
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"Joëlle" wrote
> Yikes, 280+ tv stations. One needs a lifetime to work through that many
> :-)
>
> Thanks for description of the show, unfortunately it doesn't ring any
> bells.
> I will do some investigating, maybe someone else might know.
> Could you tell from the clothing/car models how recent this show was?
>
> Ah, yes, distances in Canada are something anyone living in the UK can't
> get their head around :-) It's similar here, usually cheaper to fly to the
> Continent than travelling within the UK.
>
hehe not getting heads around the distance in Canada is common to many
non-Canadians. Most of my relatives and friends when visiting Canada from
Europe for their first time expected to see every Province in Canada during
their 2-3 week stay. I suppose it may be possible if one flew everywhere but
never planned to stay in any Province for more than a few hours haha. They
usually had much more achievable tour plans on later visits hehe.
We found the show. It is called Shane, and the episode we saw was episode 3.
We found this really good site that discribes all the sitcoms ever made in
the UK. There are a number that had a cab driver as one of the main
characters, but we eventually narrowed it down to this one.
http://www.sitcom.co.uk/shane/episodes.shtml
If you load the page look at the thumbnail image of the family of '4'. The
son's head is bearly showing. That's exactly the type of portrait one would
expect with this type of show. It is just growner comedy. It only received
mild interest in the UK, but a second season is in production anyway.
Take care,
Linda
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