Request to Selden: Screenshot Contest

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Request to Selden: Screenshot Contest

Post #1by jgrillo2002 » 23.02.2005, 04:08

HI. I was thinking of making a Screenshot Contest f the Month. each month, competitors post their own best screenshots from celestia. when that is done, people can vote for the best picture from the nominators.

What do you think?

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Post #2by Michael Kilderry » 23.02.2005, 09:22

I think that would be a fun idea! It can include images from fictional addons too can't it? I've got plenty of those.

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Post #3by jgrillo2002 » 23.02.2005, 17:38

yes. any addon including scifi. I gonna have Selden or Chris's permission first before I start

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Post #4by Cham » 23.02.2005, 18:01

You CAN post any pictures in the ADDONS forum. You don't need their permission, unless I'm wrong !

It's a fun idea. Go ahead. Pictures, pictures, pictures !
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Post #5by selden » 23.02.2005, 18:12

I don't think you need anyone's permission.

However, I'd suggest that people only post "thumbnails" on the Forum with URLs that link to the corresponding full resolution pictures.
It's very annoying to have to wait for long downloads that you've already seen.

Here's one way to do it:

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[url=url-of-high-res-picture][img]url-of-low-res-picture[/img][/url]

for example:

[url=http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/carina-earth.jpg][img]http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/carina-earth.jpeg[/img][/url]

The url of the large, high resolution image is inside the brackets, between "[url=" and its closing "]"
The url of the thumbnail image is between "[img]"%20and%20its%20closing%20"[/img]".
As a result, the low resolution thumbnail is drawn and acts as a link to the high resolution screengrab.


It looks like this:
Image
Click on this thumbnail to see the full-resolution picture.
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Post #6by jgrillo2002 » 24.02.2005, 03:31

I agree with you on that. that should be my rule them to use the thumnail technique. ill get started on the 24th

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Post #7by Rocket Man » 25.02.2005, 23:52

Where can this be found?
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Post #8by Don. Edwards » 26.02.2005, 03:31

I for one will participate in this. Sounds like fun.

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Post #9by chris » 27.02.2005, 04:25

This is a great idea . . . I'd like to put the top five on the Celestia site.

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Post #10by dallas » 27.02.2005, 08:35

Do we have a specific launch date for the contest? Will it be here on the forum or another website?
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