Even better Dalek

[Commandingtripod]

Thank you Lupe.
It would be nice to make the Daleks look more weathered, that comes down to texturing and lighting I think which I will need to practice more of. I'm trying to think up more colour schemes for my Daleks to, that black and gold one is Dalek X from the book "Prisoner of the Daleks" which I enjoyed very much.

This image was done on request for a website, and I'm putting it here because there's technical issues with getting the person I did it for to be able to view it, so I'm hoping it works this time.

[Lonesome Crow]

If we can see it why can't your friend? what format did you send it to him in?
Nice picture by the way.

[Commandingtripod]

Thanks LC.
I'm not sure what was happening, I originally uploaded it to image shack and then photobucket, but he said when he opened both he couldn't view either and got error messages. I then put it here but it seems he couldn't ge the link to work either, so now I've emailed it to him as a .png

I'm not entirely sure that he was copying the links correctly, but I don't know that for certain but I hope the email ones work this time.

[Lonesome Crow]

I used to send pictures though Photobucket, but I noticed the process of uploading the the image to the site degraded the quality quite a bit (It lost its sharp edges and looked blurred) so now I send pictures via email.

[mrgrotey]

It only degrades the images if you ask photobucket to resize them, their resizing algorithms are shocking but it wont change the quality just by uploading it.

I use photobucket multiple times every single day pretty much and have never had a single problem with it regarding quality.

[Lonesome Crow]

That's not my experience, I did a cover picture for a book, it was a very simple picture of a red cross on a black background with the author's name and title also in blood red.
I sent it to Photobucket and it took quite a while to upload because the image was big, then when I viewed the image the outline of the cross was no longer sharp and the text had the typical blocky look you get with a jpg image. So I sent the same image by email to my brothers PC and checked both images on his monitor, they were both still the same size but the Photobucket image was not so crisp and the red had lost some of its vivid colour.

[Commandingtripod]

When you say big, do you mean in pixel width or physical size on the machine? If it was incredibly massive then I suppose there is a chance that Photobucket would have automatically resized it to conserve bandwidth and resources and such. The largest thing I think I've uploaded was a 1080HD image of my battleship and it came out looking just fine.

[mrgrotey]

If you uploaded a bmp format image photobucket will convert it to jpg, possibly causing it to pick up compression artifacts in the process. And there is a 1mb limit on there so if it was bigger than that then I think they compress it too, there's no dimension limit I've uploaded picture several thousand pixels wide/high without problems. You just need to make sure its under a meg and in either jpg or png and you should be fine, as I say I've never seen such problems with my usage of the site and I recommend it to everyone as a result. Ah well, cant win 'em all I guess.

[Lonesome Crow]

That's probably the problem I was having, I thought by sending the image as a BMP I would get better quality, as a BMP, the picture was 3.83 MB and that will be why it took so long to upload, it was cramming 3.83 MB into 1 MB.
I shall continue to send them by Email, it's quicker than sending it to Photbucket and then sending the address to the recipient. (cut out the middle man), Thanks for your help.
Sorry for hijacking your thread 'commandingtripod, back to the Daleks.

[coutelier]

Very nice. I like these Daleks more than the humpbacked things in the new series