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Celebrating Diversity #12This edition of Celebrating Diversity I want to focus on two extremes of art: Extremely detailed and realistic works and minimal and abstract art. Both tendencies or trends have their place and time in art and history and are appreciated by many people. Not always does one person like both, but to me personally, art has always been more about feeling, than about complexity. Something simple can touch me emotionally as well as something blasting with details. Art is just as individual as every human being! How do you feel about these tw
Interview with Dani-OwergoorInterview with :icondani-owergoor:First goes first: Daniela, tell us a bit about yourself please.Well, my name is Daniela Xavier Owergoor and I am the only descendant of Professor Xavier, but guys, top secret, please! I started in photomanipulation in 2005, nothing serious, just retouching photos for friends.In 2008 I began to participate in contests on various sites, and that helped me to diversify my vision, I enjoy working with all types of image and style. What were your impressions of the community when you first came to dA?I knew Deviantart since 2006, but didn't know exactly what was here! In 2010 my friend :icontebh:convinced me to create an account, I did, but I was practically inactive.In mid-2011 I started getting active and so I am. Actually, I were more frequent months ago than now, but still try to create one piece per week or at least, every 10 or 15 days. It all depends on inspiration and ideas, and not always have them.The DA is like a 'school' wh
So You Wanna be a Stocker?Welcome to the first "So You Wanna be a Stocker?" article! I asked some of the biggest names in stock some typical questions that new stockers might have, in hopes that their answers will help stockers new and old learn a bit! I asked them different questions with some overlap in hopes of getting differingopinions.Our interviewees today are `faestock, *Tasastock, and *SenshiStock.1. Is an expensive camera necessary?*Tasastock says, "No, but they are damned fun to play with! You can get a decent camera for a decent price nowadays that will shoot good quality images in the right conditions. Obviously they're not good for low-light or anything capturing movement, but if you handle them right you can make do with an ordinary camera, I've known plenty of people to do so."*SenshiStock says, "I don't know much about cameras, but the best photographs you can take are always going to be the ones that
Photography Troubleshooting: BackgroundsThis series of articles aims to answer the questions of Photographers on deviantART who have burning issues with their cameras. Have an issue? Leave a comment at the end of the article and we'll do our best to help you figure out the answer. Additionally if you have information that could help someone out - let us know! "From when I used to do photography what I struggled with most was the backgrounds, I wanted to focus in on the objects and then I'd take it to my tutors and they'd go "it's nice but the background is your desk, or your bookshelf" Unless I'm shooting on an infinity curve I struggle to 'see' appropriate backgrounds for my set up..." `FionaCreates "Hi `FionaCreates, backgrounds can either be a part of the photograph or apart from it (I'm quite pleased with what I did there ).Many still life images, particularly in a 'studio' o
Photography Troubleshooting: NoiseThis series of articles aims to answer the questions of Photographers on deviantART who have burning issues with their cameras. Have an issue? Leave a comment at the end of the article and we'll do our best to help you figure out the answer. Additionally if you have information that could help someone out - let us know! "I would love to figure out how to reduce the noise on my camera.I'd love to drop kick it off of a very high cliff, but then I wouldn'thave a camera at all. It may just be because the camera is a POSthough..." ~=CelticStrm-Stock "Noise is a characteristic that can be mitigated with numerous techniques.Noise is all about how much light a camera can capture above its inherent noise floor (the natural noise that the sensor and electronics will always make regardless of what you do), the more 'signal' there is above the noise floor, the less visible the noise will be.Based on the EXIF information on your imag
How to: Modifying the HeaderFor this tutorial series I am explaining different elements you can create or modify with the help of CSS. The level of experience that is needed to be able to understand the tutorials can differ and will be in no order.Everything explained is based on the gruze-structure of journals. If you are still using the old structure or have a journal installed that used it, things won’t work the same way like explained below.For simple skins the old structure is fine, but the more features you add, the more I would recommend using the gruze-structure. You can look up the differences here: http://ginkgografix.deviantart.com/art/Old-vs-Gruze-Journals-112772369This time I will explain you, how to modify the header section of a journal. I will try to cover everything important, but if there are still things you want to know more about, just let me know and I will try to add it here.Nothing what I will explain here will affect the actual content area and it will always refer to the defaul
Do-It-Yourself Journal SkinDo-It-Yourself Journal SkinGet into Journal skinning by learning how to create your own Journal skin in this tutorial!Written by `miontre for dA Related Week in #projecteducateJump to resourcesHeya everyone! In this tutorial, you'll be learning how to create your own Journal skin on deviantART. This tutorial takes a "Do-It-Yourself" or "Assemble-It-Yourself" type approach. I've pre-created a design, and it's up to you to put it together and customise it - with instructions, of course! Note that you need a Premium Membership to use Journal skins! This tutorial is aimed at anyone who is interested in starting to create Journal skins on dA using CSS. Those who don't know anything about CSS yet can follow along, and hopefully learn something along the way! Those who are beginners with CSS can learn how to turn a design into code, and how to use CSS to create a Jo
Tech tip - Sharing dA tags and html source code This is the least hideous approach I've been able to come up with without altering the appearance of the test and without the running into problems with dA's online text editors software due to the fact that they process the text bricked in the html … tag sequence. The following formatting workarounds will breakᴺ¹ the interpreters involved to get the desired results. Normally most of this would be achievable by using html escapes < [http://www.deviantart.com/http://www.deviantart.com/ Display html escapes: replace & with &Display html tag source by replacing everyWould be written: i⃝ For listings > 40 characters wide in Journals add a horizontal scroll bar. To make code in t