IS THERE ANY WAY TO MAKE CAEDES MORE ATRACTIVE, ADVENTUROUS, INTERESTING AND FUN???
Any ideas?????

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remove upper-case letters from forums .. would be a start

except, of course, from my posts

Hehehehehehehe!!!

I like this site, I think it is great, I don't know how much better it could get.

Ya they told me Upper case lettering means yelling! hahaha..altho I see some people totally posting their messages in upper case..are they mad? lol I do wish very much things would be more fun and a bit more lively in caedes. It seems things have become a bit montone lately. A lot have been affected negatively by the C Index too. I would love to hear some thoughts on this by the 'mods' and some of the people who have been here a while(the ones who stayed and didn't run off to other sites for their own reasons)...........

I use to comments about the photos and use the voting booth, but sometimes u dont got any feedback from some people, . I guess, there is needed something to motivate people to comment.. :?

:?

All been tried.. Nothing works.. You could offer candy or cookies..

I think it is up to the members to create the atmosphere of fun, interesting and exciting... maybe we could have another virtual BBQ...... LOL... everyone seemed to enjoy the last one... (and no im not going to organizing it... LOL)

Ya that was a fun thing..so was the froggie contest...its those little things that make it interesting along with fun comments...even constructives one? LOL @ Morwyn(Ann)..well maybe if we made a caedes cake? wondering what that might consist of..hmmm,thinkin' dasterly thoughts now..lol

One way to "improve" the site is to try and get people more involved. I try to do this by occasionally organising little contests, like Guess the artist and the t-shirt thing. I did this before I was a mod and there is nothing to stop others from doing the same or similar, just requires a little planning. What makes caedes special is that it is a COMMUNITY, and just like any other community, it only works if people get involved, get together, communicate, and put effort in. We are all a part of this community and a community is only as good as the people who are involved in it!

Can we all get dressed up & go trick or treating ??? And nobody's allowed to go as Napeleon(sp. sorry ) Dynamite. If I see one more " Vote for Pedro " t-shirt I will NOT be responsible for my actions....

I would love to try something new . In PHotoshop there is a heading for "Liquefy" How about everyone trying their "hand" at it?? And we can see what kind of kewl designs we can come up. I am NOT good at photoshop....but at least it would be me a chance to "pretent" I could mess with it a bit. Any takers??

Well every thing I've tryed has been thrown off the site. LOL wink , wink.

Actually I have seen quite a few images using the "Liquify" feature. I think BJ had some with swirls in them? Of course other people may have used it in such a skillfull way that I didn't realise the tool had been used. Personally I am absolutely hopeless at doing practiaclly anything freehand, so the Liquify tool does nothing but aggravate me!

I had so much fun trying that earlier, but sheesh you know me! now I gotta figure out HOW to save it and how to post it....why do all things take me so long to figure out! I found myself really relaxing with that tool...now lets see if I can figure out how to post it...well, guess what I just tried to save it and instead I deleted it. :( well so much for that one!!

Getting back to the original question; I have posted an idea in "Member projects" that hopefully might stimulate some new activity on the site and get people more involved. Looking forward to receiving you nominations BRIX and others!!

Excelent idea, count me in :)
When is it going to be and the requirements of???
"untitled"

this point of this discussion goes to :"artist of week". That was the proposal, to get something new in CAEDES
Great!!!! :)

well, its doing GREAT!!!!!!!! :)

It's going just fine.

yes, just fine....

In response to Sam's referral to me, I do not have the liquify tool in my program. I have photoshop but have never used it. I do have images made partly from what is called the "chrome" filter in my program, but I've never used it alone. "Sunny Disposition" probably has the most of it so far. I would imagine that it's quite similar to the liquify filter. The problem with this filter is that levels have to be just right to get a smooth and well defined image. As close as I've gotten with it, I've still had to smooth edges with the smudge tool set on the smallest setting and magnify my image a great deal going pixel by pixel playing with sharpness levels as well. It's not something I can do and post in an hour by any means. Then again, none of my images made from scratch ever are. Good luck with it Verena and have fun. Remember patience, patience, patience, and then some more patience! ;o There's no easy way around the practice I'm afraid. If there is, I'd love for someone to clue me in too! I'm rather stuck humbly over here on this practice side of the fence. ;o

Oh it must have been someone else. The image I was thinking of was called "Swirls" or something.