http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/24405470/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/24405470/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:10:29 PDT

My new account is and I'd appreciate if you could fave the photos on this new one, not here

Thank you and see you there!

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http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/18728435/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/18728435/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:16:10 PDT

Veoh is no longer available in CROATIA.

W.T.F.?

I didn't get any message about it! What if I had videos uploaded there?! That's bad bad service.

I asked can she see it, she said yes, but not videos tagged with Croatia. Finally she found Veoh forum where I saw the reason.

Someone asked what happened and this is official response by Veoh's staff:

"Unfortunately Veoh will be ending service in your country due to a low concentration of users. Veoh is maintaining markets when we have the highest concentration of viewers."
(yes, with all grammar mistakes)

And then later I found a topic with a list of blocked countries - 165 of them. Mostly 3rd world countries in Asia and Africa but lots lots of them from Europe and South America too.

I personally find it offending, but most importantly I find it business suicide. Every user/customer/viewer is important, no matter how poor/rich their country is and no matter how many users in that country are.

That is not first case of internet censorship of course. I think most of the people know about Flickr not being available in Iran, China and United Arab Emirates (because of governments) and content filters for Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea (from Flickr's side); Google not being available in China...

Then only yesterday I was faced with blocking. I tried Hulu [link] (movie, video and tv show website), and earlier Pandora [link] (music streaming website) which are available for USA citizens only.

Why is that?! Isn't it better if they have more users? Is politics involved again? I thought that business always overcame politics at least on internet.

Yes I know there are other sites, but some are really good but blocked.

Geeks and techie people are trying to overcome barriers by making different scripts and programs to get behind the shield. I found 2-3 of them but one didn't work, other had some error and third one slooowed down internet badly so the video couldn't be loaded.

*sigh*

Enough of the ranting.

Geeks' revenge will come!!

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http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/17897180/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/17897180/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:09:23 PDT
There is a simple way to protect your image without a big visible (and ugly) watermark..

METADATA...

Metadata is essentially information embedded into your media that stays there.

Through Photoshop (most versions CS, CS2, CS3 for sure) all you have to do is go:

FILE> FILE INFO, and it will bring up all your embedded info. Simply embed a copyright warning in the correct box (if in doubt, use the HELPfunction on your software)

For instance, i might use "©Sound_Of_Vision_2008"

Now my image is protected with an invisible, digital watermark.. but lets not stop there.. Lets have the internet tell us any time someone posts my image with my invisible copyright!

God bless google! Google alerts, one of the best kept secrets on the interwebs.

From here, i can enter into my Search terms:©Sound_Of_Vision_2008, tell google to notify me once weekly (more if you are a big shot) and have them sent directly to your email!

Just like that, you are informed of every infraction that takes advantage of your work!


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http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/17620807/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:48:10 PDT These people are doing something amazing and I want to keep an eye on them. Now you go and check them out!
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* you must have account to use it
* option to connect to your Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa accounts.
* you can upload pictures up to 2GB
* creating albums.
* Basics: crop&rotate, autocorrect, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup, saturation
* Tuning: white balance, highlight, fill light, sharpen, soft focus
* Effects: pop color, hue, black&white, tint, sketch, distort
* embedding photos

* option to connect to your MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Webshots, Photobucket, Picasa accounts, Yahoo search and even your webcam
* you don't have to have account to use it
* they don't offer storage, but after editing you can save it to your computer or one of your photo hosting sites (Flickr, Photobucket...etc)
* Basics: auto-fix, rotate, crop, resize, exposure, colors, sharpen, red-eye
* effects black&white, sepia, boost, soften, vignette, matte, infra-red film, lomo-ish, holga-ish, HDR-ish, night vision, cinemascope, orton-ish, 1960's, tint, invert, duo-tone, heat map, cross process, focal b&w, focal soften, focal pixelate, focal zoom, pencil sketch, neon, doodle, gooify, pixelate, posterize, film grain, snow (many of this stuff weren't available for free users until recently so I was thrilled when I got notification e-mail...
- text lots of different fonts
- shapes hearts, stars, flowers...etc. Additional ones for special occasions: Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, St. Patrick's...
- touch up Unfortunately only 2 options: teeth whiten & blemish fix.
- frames 5 frames
- advanced Curves and Levels - this is for Premium members only

* You can find an add-on for Firefox

* uploading photos on your FotoFlexer account, not sure about limit
* after editing you can save it to your computer or one of your photo hosting sites (Flickr, Photobucket...etc)
* you can connect to your Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket, Flickr, Phanfare, SmugMug, MySpace accounts, Yahoo search, webcam
* you don't have to have account to use it
* Basic: same as for Picnik
* Effects: Blur edges, blueprint, neon, greyscale, invert, painting, cartoon, pop art, bronze, sepia, old photo, ink stamp, color rotate, pixelate, soften, tint, duoe-tone, heat map, sketch, color cketch, fresco, film grain, night vision
* Decorate: stickers, text, draw, erase, fill, grab color, speech and thought bubbles, insert-a-face, fun cards, borders (frames), poster
* Animate: stars, lovies, stickers
* Beautify: smooth, sharpen, fix... ]]> ~SoundOfVision http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/17525504/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/17525504/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:28:51 PDT



RULES are:

1. Post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a journal/ blog of these facts
4. At the end of the post 8 more persons are tagged and named
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

1. I'm lefty
2. I often have deja vus
3. I sinfully love chocolate
4. I often daydream and drift away in thoughts during which I have goofy smile on my face or start giggling and people look at me like I'm a freak
5. I want to do something big, important and memorable in/from my life
6. Right now I'm totally crazy over Heroes Peter Petrelli!! and Adam Monroe!!
7. I'm vegetarian and I don't buy animal tested products or products made of animals (fur, leather...)
8. I love exploring alternative things -zodiac, reflexology, supernatural...

P.S. This is unofficial No 9: [link] because I was just on that website!! go and see!! Too crazy! LOL and No 10 is music!!

Ah, and I tag...(not thinking anyone would do it, but eh...)
~ixidork http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/17474974/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:51:22 PDT
I just ate whole bowl of eggs and I'm sick

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]]> ~SoundOfVision http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/16861495/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/16861495/ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:49:47 PST
And once again, it shows that photography is still one of the strongest and most influential mediums that records past for the future.

*warning* some pictures might be disturbing Click -->[link]

]]> ~SoundOfVision http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/16168712/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/16168712/ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:16:01 PST Lots of creativity, inspiration and passion that will result in awesome art!


]]> ~SoundOfVision http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/15590305/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/15590305/ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:14:37 PST

Anyway, dA finally gave us one new awesome feature - galleries/folders, so you can better organize your art. Not only your gallery, but your favorites too. Well, you caan't put them into folders, but you can browse them through Categories.
YAY

]]> ~SoundOfVision http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/13150538/ http://SoundOfVision.deviantart.com/journal/13150538/ Wed, 30 May 2007 11:53:47 PDT

I hope this will work and I'll keep posting and working on my artistic side (oh, at least I hope I have one, *lol*)

*kiss*

~T

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