oh no!!

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:56 pm

i went to my gallery today and noticed that some of the thumbnails were gone... then i click on them and some of the pictures of my cels are gone too!! *cries* ... and i dont have backup copies of my pictures/scans.

aw man, so i have to retake the pictures and scan the cels again.

has anyone else noticed this when you go to your own site?
or was it just my own bad luck?

Post by **sensei** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:00 pm

You might post up a query on the RS forum to see how widespread this is. I ran over to my gallery and clicked on a few of the corridors, but didn't spot any problems. /wah

But unless I'm mistaken I did once have a cel somehow gravitate from one corridor to another without my moving it. So poop does happen.

I have all my scans saved on a CD just in case.

Post by **JWR** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:52 pm

You might email Jason for I know he has been trasfering stuff from one server to another hosting server. Hopefully he can fix/recover any images that might have glitched.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:24 pm

thanks for the tip, Joe (and for his email address)!

Sensei, yeah ive learned my lesson now. lol

an entire series has dissapeared (my la corda doro sketches)!

Post by **sensei** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:39 am

I was wondering what series all those sketches that suddenly showed up in my Itoya last night belonged to.

Thank, BD, I'll go check it out.

I do hope Jason can make things right. It seemingly takes forever for me to get a sketch set ready to upload, and so I'm aware that it's no joke for you.

ReiTheJelly · Post by **ReiTheJelly** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:48 am

I did run across a gallery the other day while browsing RS that had NO images available (the owner only had about 10 cels). I just chalked it up to someone not knowing how to use RS, but I guess this could be an alternate explanation.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:39 pm

sensei wrote:I was wondering what series all those sketches that suddenly showed up in my Itoya last night belonged to. Thank, BD, I'll go check it out.

lol, now why cant I have that kinda luck?

sensei wrote: I do hope Jason can make things right. It seemingly takes forever for me to get a sketch set ready to upload, and so I'm aware that it's no joke for you.

he wasnt sure what was going on either.
so ill have to probably re upload again.

well ive been meaning to scan the sketches i took the pics of (since i got a new NICER scanner... yay!

) so i guess it gives me a reason to get off my duff and scan. lol
its kinda good timing b/c i have about two more weeks of vacation left so i needed something to do.

ginga123 · Post by **ginga123** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:07 am

I got scared there for a minute and clicked open another tab as quick as I could because I'm in the process of re-making thumbnails for equal size and non-blurriness! I am notorious for keeping backlog of scaled down scans and NOT the thumbnails! lol

I am now breathing a sigh of relief... everything is still there.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:39 pm

lol sorry to scare ya, its me, just my dumb bad luck.
you can all go about your buisness people, b/c God knows it was only my site affected. lol

Post by **sensei** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:20 pm

So God was responsible? What did you do to p188 her off this week? Mmmmm?

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:51 pm

sensei wrote:So God was responsible? What did you do to p188 her off this week? Mmmmm?

lol, oh sensei,
the same way i p$$ everyone else off here.... i got this down to a science!

lol

Post by **JWR** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:35 pm

Sorry those images can't be recovered.

Just a tip I have found out scanning sketches is to use a dark background cover (I use a black posterboard piece) instead od just closing the scanner top that has a white background. Using the dark background makes the sketch image stand out better while in my experience using just the scanner cover tends to "bleach" them out.

Heres a couple of examples.

These pencils from Chobits were scanned with just the scanner white top and need to be one day rescanned.
http://ryan.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_ ... emID=46800

While simular pencil sketches from Shakugan no Shana show more defination and scanned more clearly using a dark background.
http://ryan.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_ ... mID=220762

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:27 pm

aw nuts.

well thank you for the tip, Joe! i never thought about using a black background for the scanner to see it more clearly.

good idea!

Post by **sensei** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:20 am

JWR wrote:Just a tip I have found out scanning sketches is to use a dark background cover (I use a black posterboard piece) instead od just closing the scanner top that has a white background. Using the dark background makes the sketch image stand out better while in my experience using just the scanner cover tends to "bleach" them out.

I'll try that too. My new Canoscan is quick and very good on detail, but I always have to fool with sketch images to get them back to what they actually look like to the naked eye.

Never any catastrophe but that there isn't at least one rainbow.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:32 pm

Sensei, how did you close your gallery for awhile (i remember you were doing renovations on it awhile)...

i had the computer make the thumbs for me but i didnt like how they turned out.... heh im pickey.

...and im so seriously behind in updating my gallery. next week is my last week off for a long time so id like to get it all done then... i really want to temporarily close it and do everything.... how do you do that?
i see when you go under 'my account >administrative, there's a "close gallery"... is that it? sorry, i know it sounds obvious but im scared im going to delete my entire gallery.

thank you!