On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:22:49 +1000, Troy Piggins
<usenet-0804@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>* Lawrence Glickman wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:49:07 +1000, Troy Piggins
>> <usenet-0804@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>* Markus Fuenfrocken wrote:
>>>> Troy Piggins wrote:
>>><snip />
>>>> - you seem to love wide angle shots, try to use a correction filter
or tool
>>>> like shift n (http://www.shiftn.de/
english description available) to
get
>>>> rid of those annoying converging lines and tilts. Images like
img_6416.jpg
>>>> really suffer from that. Also, always try to rotate images like
img_6419.jpg
>>>> to make them aligned horizontally - it? just a few clicks, and a
heavily
>>>> sloping image like this will always make it look "amateurish".
>>>
>>>Man. Just seconds into playing with that free software and it's
>>>bloody amazing! Literally just open those leaning building
>>>cityscapes and click on the automatic correction button gives
>>>good results.
>>>
>>>Must... play... more...
>>
>> It is German Genius at work.
>> I worked for AGFA for 10 years. They are amazingily brilliant people.
>
>They certainly are up there, particularly in the open-source
>community - very active contributors. I'd have to put them at
>the second smartest nation behind Australia :)
I attribute this to their rigorous schooling. What passes for a *high
school education* in Germany is equivalent to a *college* education in
the USA.
IIRC, they call it Gymnasium or somesuch. IIRC. Now they proceed on
to University, which is really something beyond amazing. It is
equivalent to getting a Doctorate degree in the USA. So if you meet
someone with a Doctorate degree in Germany, you are meeting an Expert
with a capital E.
All the time...they maintain an enormous amount of humility, but do
not let that betray the genius that is in their minds.
Lg
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