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Cpuswe
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 Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:55 am Post subject: Re: Is this the mysterious Pentium 50? S-spec Q0335 |
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| chiptalk wrote: |
I like the library, but we really need to start having photos of the bottom of chips. A lot of the time, bottoms of chips have more info (both physical characteristics and text) than the tops. |
I would like bottom pics to!
But as always its that thing with TIME! I do not complain since i brought it on my self, but if we calculate low and lets say i spent average 2 minutes per chip downloading,renaming,retouch in Paintshop,uploading,sorting and creating 812 categories i have spent around 100 hours this far. This figure is just managing pics. Then comes running the site and everything behind it. Before starting this project i had never used HTML, PHP or MYSQL so it has been looong nights figuring out how that stuff works... I got alot of help and appreciation from visitors,collectors and contributors so again i do not complain, just to give you a number if we where to adding bottom pics also. Many of the contributing collectors does not even have bottom scans.
The other problem with adding bottoms is that with current software it must be one pic for each chip to keep it manageable, which means that two pics has to be merged to one. This would add MANY more hours in Photoshop. It will come, but right now i will go for adding chips if so with top only.
You are welcome to contribute with what you got! (I know your demands for using your pics, which i probably cant fullfill since there bandwidth to pay for). But perhaps php coding or merging top+bottom pics?
/Thomas
Edit: Moderators, perhaps move the offtopic posts?
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debs3759
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:51 am Post subject: |
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I also would like to see bottom pics in the library. Some chips have more significant info on the top, some have most on the bottom. It's not so important when a chip has nothing on the bottom, but when it has info (such as revision codes for many Cyrix chips, for example) that is useful in helping to identify what chips are available (as well as for identifying chips which have most of the text worn/pulled off the top).
I would happily upload pictures of the bottom of all my chips (most have bottom scans now, and the rest will be done within the next few weeks).
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Cpuswe
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| debs3759 wrote: |
I would happily upload pictures of the bottom of all my chips (most have bottom scans now, and the rest will be done within the next few weeks). |
Thanks debs. I am just not sure how to add "just bottom" pics. They will be added as an own chip like the rest of the pics. Since its a picture database and not an object database each "object/pic" can only contain one pic and there is no relation between top and bottom.
And shouldn't the top and bottom pic be from the same chip?
(I will of course look in to how to rebuild the gallery to suit our future needs)
/T
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JAC
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| The easiest way is to have the top and bottom in the same image? |
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Cpuswe
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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| JAC wrote: | | The easiest way is to have the top and bottom in the same image? |
Yupp! Also a lot of work in Photoshop/Paintshop to merge two images. Perhaps there is a easier way or even a appl. that can merge two pics to one in batch or at least simpler?
How do you do merge two pics?
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JAC
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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all my pics are done in photoshop.
1) I scan top
2) I scan bottom
3) I rotate and correct each image so they look ok.
4) I then increase the canvas size ( by about 300% ) for one image ( usually the top one.)
5) I then drag and select the image from the bottom, selecting only cpu
6) I then paste into the bigger image and align.
7) I crop the main image and save down to different resolutions.
Takes time? oh yes. I havent done any for ages and I have 100's to do.
The results are worth it.. I have a nice database of my chips building up  |
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Cpuswe
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, then im not completely off then with the ones i have done so far. And yes it takes time! 
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