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2 minutes ago, Cinnamon Mistwood said:

Oh!  Excuse me.  I didn't realize this room was occupied. Pardon the interruption.

/me back slowly out and softly closes the door behind me.

 

 

I love the reflection in the window

Relax. I've been disturbed doing worse . . .

And thanks. 🙂

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20 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

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Scylla, how did you do the reflection? (I'll tell you how I would have done it. I would take a crop of the main subject, mirror-flip it, paste it into a new layer with the mirror. Then apply filters and effects to make it look more like a reflection in glass than a flipped image. Am I close?)

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19 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Scylla, how did you do the reflection? (I'll tell you how I would have done it. I would take a crop of the main subject, mirror-flip it, paste it into a new layer with the mirror. Then apply filters and effects to make it look more like a reflection in glass than a flipped image. Am I close?)

Well, sort of! I actually calculated (VERY roughly) the angle from which my avatar would be reflected in the window. Because, of course, light bounces off a reflective service at the same angle at which it hits it. So, a simple crop-and-flip would look wrong, because of the angle. So I actually took a separate shot of my avatar from "behind" the window (having derendered the window and much of the rest of the room) so as to catch the correct angle, and then flipped it.

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On occasion I have then applied the image to a prim, stuck it onto the mirror or window, and played with the transparency. In this instance, though, the setting was too dark to see it properly, so I applied it in Photoshop, where I had more control over the lighting.

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"History Boys" ............Nerina Pallot.
 

Six million souls lost to thin air
Are wandering the earth again
Lives, not numbers

All these ghosts, sons of mothers
History is empty arms
It's just one thing after another
And slowly we follow behind our boys

One day I'll have a child of my own
How will I tell him, oh
This world, this world it is a good place?
How will I hide the fear from my face?

How do you sleep with all that you've done?
Sending somebody else's son to die
For things no one believes in
Saluting your own charade
As we line up in this heartless parade

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17 minutes ago, Seaplane Jonson said:

Vermeer?  It's a stunning image, very "painterly"

Clever you! Yes. And thank you so very much!

I should apologize to Charalyne -- I didn't mean to be all mysterious about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Reading_a_Letter_at_an_Open_Window#/media/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_Girl_Reading_a_Letter_by_an_Open_Window_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

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