AdamStanislav

Thank you very much!

That was the first place I went to before coming here. It just says it will offer 30% off, but does not say when. So is the $54.99 the price before or after the discount?

I got this email from Affinity. It is barely readable, and consists of a bunch of non-existing links. Besides, it seems to apply that I cannot get the discount if I am not on Twitter, Facebook, or other sites that have absolutely nothing to do with Affinity, or even Serif. And it tells me to mark my calendar, but does not give me any dates, just some dead links. See here,

Just for the fun of it, I extracted the palette out of this silly picture: Wine-Bug.afpalette

Last night I added a function to my software to allow me to create the two most recent LUTs above. This morning when I was trying to create them, I got a completely wild result. Yes, my new function had a bug in it. I fixed the bug and it worked (well, obviously, since i already uploaded the two most recent LUTs). But, the bug LUT was so wild I decided to keep it just in case I ever wanted to distort the colors of an image or video clip in such a wild way. Here it is: Bug.cube. And here is what it does,

On the other hand, instead of complementing the color, we may want to mirror it. By that I mean going the same angle from the nearest primary color but in the opposite direction. The nearest primary color to raspberry is red. If my math is correct, persimmon is the same distance, but in the opposite angular direction, from red as raspberry. So to mirror Raspberry Bleach, we create PersimmonBleach.cube. And yes, this one might be used in portrait photography as long as the original is not contrasty (since Bleach Bypass increases the contrast).

If we wanted to complement the Raspberry Bleach effect, we would just combine Bleach Bypass with an emerald coloring (since emerald is the complementary color of raspberry). We would end up with EmeraldBleach.cube. I would not use it for portrait photography, but it can produce a magical forest and such.

So, what do you get if you apply the Bleach Bypass effect and then give it a raspberry coloring? RaspberryBleach.cube, what else?!

Thanks.

I’m sorry, English is not my first language. What do you mean by responsive?

Yes, I’m still making new ones. Last night I came up with a better method (than I had before) of combining several LUTs into one, and to test it I combined my Bleach Bypass LUT with a random blue LUT. The result was kind of wild (I called it Blue Bleach), so this morning I thought what if I lowered its saturation and its contrast (Bleach Bypass already lowers the saturation but increases the contrast). For the lack of a better idea, I called it Blue Gray and made BlueGray.cube out of it. It looks like this,

Hence the aforementioned need for Seymour Krelborn. 😜

First time or not, this is very nicely done.

Time to call Seymour Krelborn!

Very nice work. 👍

And yet, when he was twelve, he said he wanted to be a cardiac surgeon. We will just wait to see which path of life he will decide on.

Here he is playing with a Moscow orchestra:

Yes, I agree.

Wow, when I was watching that video, I noticed one uploaded just 8 hours ago. It shows a 13-year-old violin virtuoso from Slovakia being interviewed. A very funny interview but it is in Slovak, so here is just the ending when he plays a little music. Thirteen years old:

His name is Jiří Suchý. Not only is he a great poet and singer, he is also is an actor and, dare I say, a philosopher. He was a cofounder of Semafor, a theatre in Prague. In my twenties, I was visiting Prague for about a week and was hoping to go see him in Semafor. A neighbor of mine in Bratislava (where I grew up) was a Czech lady married to a Slovak husband. While I am one of the few Slovaks fluent in Czech (or at least was back then), she told me to speak in Slovak when trying to buy a ticket to Semafor. She thought the ticket lady liked the Slovaks because she had tried to get tickets and they were sold out but then her Slovak husband tried and got the tickets. So I was standing in a long line in front of the ticket office and everyone ahead of me left empty-handed. When it was my turn, I asked for a ticket in Slovak. She said, standing room only. And I was thinking when am I ever getting another chance to see the great Jiří Suchý, so I sighed and said I would take it. And she said words I will never forget, Mám tady jeden, dvacet korun. That means, I have one here, twenty crowns (the crown being the currency). And I was so happy that everyone standing behind me must have figured out I got special treatment. It was an amazing performance. It was nice from the moment I walked into the theatre and saw the sign stating, Welcome, you who leave with a good intention. 😁 By the way, I think they just had a few tickets left for people who clearly came from afar and might not be ever able to come again. Which was nice.

And here is the poet who wrote the best lyrics I have ever heard singing that song himself"

The mystery deepens. There is a Czech song, Tiše a ochotně purpura na plotně hoří, stále hoří. Nikdo si nevšímá, jak život mění se v dým. That talks about purpura burning on a stove, so I always assumed it was some kind of potpourri flower. I have just looked it up in the Google Translate app for Android, which defines purpura as, purpura occurs when small blood vessel burst I give up!

Fascinating.

I have no idea who Petra Sancta is (other than an obvious pun on the Latin name of St. Peter), but as I mentioned, magenta is called purpurová in Slovak, which is the color of something called purpur in Slovak (though I am not sure what a purpur is, some flower or something like that).

There may be (that is why I asked what kind of film in my first reply). That should be a separate step from converting the negative to a positive, though. The initial conversion from a negative to a positive is mathematically extremely straightforward and computationally fast. The additional adjustments are then much easier to do with the positive than with the original negative.