The other teeny little point you may have overlooked is that at the edge of 
the poster on the web, the pic frames are cropped off. Probably have a good 
market for every person depicted there. :)
DLM

"William Pokorny" <pokorny_at_epix.net> wrote in message 
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> Thanks. We will consider your comments along with the comments we garner
> from those who review the test prints.
>
> The images are supposed to be floating within a metal like framework 
> sitting
> upon the rays. In other words - the transparency you see is intentional
> though I have apparently not generated the desired effect! It is easier to
> see on the full resolution images, the smaller of those is about 3 times 
> the
> resolution of the larger image I put up on the web site. Perhaps this
> resolution and the effect will come through better on the prints, but we
> have yet to see them.
>
> While I am talking about prints, does anyone know what printers are used 
> by
> Zazzle? I'd like to use them for our best large prints, which will end up
> under frame in a few places, but  I am leaning towards a vendor in New 
> York
> which publishes details on the printers used, the resolutions at which 
> they
> run them and inks used.
>
> While I agree there are different ways to assemble this image. Using a 
> tool
> like POV-Ray  frees one from having to edit the full image - which 
> requires
> more than 1.2G to load and edit with a single undo and just two layers.
> Further during development of the image POV-Ray was used to generate much
> smaller evaluation images. When looking at the full image the GIMP was 
> used
> only as an image browser.
> Bill
>
> "dlm" <me### [at] addressinvalid> wrote in message
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>> Bill,
>>
>> Nice concept.
>>
>> A visual issue: The frames around the photos have a transparent inner
>> framing. This makes the rays look like they're intruding into the photos
>> of - e.g. the violinist.
>>
>> I would have just done the rays in POV and built the collage in PSP, GIMP
> or
>> even Powerpoint.
>>
>> The shadows of the pics on the rays add very little to it. If you want
>> pictures floating in space, you probably want them to look like it with a
>> suggestion of greater distance between the ray plane and the pics, which
> in
>> any event never shadow one another or show reflections. Also the globe
>> backdrop would want lighting consistent with the rays.
>>
>> DLM
>>
>
>

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