What bemused you today?

[Hinfrance]

    This is priceless, but what were you doing looking for royal wedding memorabilia? 

[jinky]

Hope no-one tells them before they go in to production - I want one

[Oldboy]

    This is priceless, but what were you doing looking for royal wedding memorabilia? 

I wasn't. It was posted on AOL. 

[ABERS]

As some of you may have noticed, I'm rather partial to a bit of Black and White, photographically speaking, although the whiskey is quite acceptable.

So when I got this month's B+W magazine with the deatails of their 2011 POTY competition, the old noddle started to think about what I might stand a chance with. That's until I got to the bit about Entry Fees. Now over at Pradar there has been the rumblings of discontent that would make the Libya affair look like a walk in the park, since they decided to charge a tenner to enter.

Whilst it's early days yet I think perhaps the B+W mag affair will far surpass that and I'm sure it will be raised at the U.N. along the same lines with all sorts of resolutions calling for the editor to be hunted down and blown to bits by a cruise missile at least.

Why. Because if you decide to enter the B+W POTY section, comprising 3 related prints and each of the other 8 categories you will need to shell out a mind boggling £48.

Have magazines decided that selling subscriptions as a source of revenue is to be abandoned and charging for competition entries a better way of making a profit

Have a look
ttp://www.bpoty.com

[Hinfrance]

Ah, but for you Alan it's not so much a gamble as an investment . .

[spinner]

I know I'm looking the proverbial gift horse in the mouth, but, I downloaded the new "free" version of Serif's Photo Plus. I'm bemused by the fact that it won't save my RAW files in any format other than their Spp format. What good is that? No printing service will be able to print from it. 

[Mick]

Simon,

I think you need to go File / Export, instead of File / Save as.

[spinner]

So it does, I see it actually gives the option of viewing it in 4 different formats so you can choose, but I don't really see the point. I don't know how it works in the U.K. but here JPG is the only format I can submit to a printer. 

[Mick]

Serif does have a habit of changing stuff from the normal way of doing things.  Why, I haven't a clue.

To be honest using the "save as" command would have been my first route, but they love the word export, and tend to use it on most of their software.

[spinner]

I guess they need to do something substantially different from P.S. to prevent some copyright infringement I guess. Otherwise it looks a lot like CS5. But it's free and I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. 

[Oldboy]

Serif does have a habit of changing stuff from the normal way of doing things.  Why, I haven't a clue.

To be honest using the "save as" command would have been my first route, but they love the word export, and tend to use it on most of their software.

Might be something to do with the commerical pinting world, as QuarkXpress also use export. 

[Graham]

    What bemused me yesterday.
                   I was reading the lable on my jar of Marmite (It was one of those sort of days.) and I noticed that it was "100% vegetarian."
                   As apposed to what exactly?  97.2% vegetarian...Did they used to have a big vat of the stuff bubbleing away and chuck a dead cows head in just to help things along a bit.
                                         Graham.

[Hinfrance]

With Serif you chose file>export optimiser and then chose the file format from the drop down box. I have the full version of X4 and it has loads of options. Make sure you don't use the lossless jpg option though, hardly anything else understands it. Very useful for editing something and going back to it later.

[spinner]

Did a day trip down to Buffalo NY. Got a terrific deal on SD cards. 4 Gig for $10 so I bought 3. Got hone and discovered my D50 can't handle anything over 2 Gig. My daughter is now the proud owner of 12 Gigs of storage as her Fujifilm does handle them.

[bones615]

Bathroom tap sprung a leak, flexible tap connector, why? its been there for years. My biggest problem was getting parts of my self into and under the stupid little cabinet SWMBO took a fancy to when we last did the bathroom. So the dilemma is do i go on a diet or buy a bigger cabinet next time.

Simon