User talk:Jjron

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GIMP

GIMP seems to only provide 90 degree rotation.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 20:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't use it, but I find that hard to believe. In Photoshop you can select an image (or part of it) and perform an operation called Free Transform, and then rotate it using the mouse. Another option is called Rotate Canvas which rotates the whole image by fixed amounts (90 or 180 degrees) but also provides an Arbitrary option where you can specify the rotation to decimal places of degrees. Try looking for something like that as I'm sure GIMP wouldn't stooge on such a basic function (heck things like Word can rotate images by arbitrary amounts). --jjron (talk) 11:04, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes I see a rotate function now. You have not been commenting on my noms at PPR or the one you told me to take to VPC. Do you see anything else that should go straight to VPC? I am going to try to tinker with GIMP.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

As I suggested last week you're nominating far too many, which is a misuse of the process. I'll comment about it at PPR in the near future. --jjron (talk) 15:34, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I cut back from five or six a day to three. I am trying to figure some editing stuff out. A guy like me can get lost in some of the lingo in WP articles like Image_editing.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I am debating about just going straight to VPC with Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Victory Monument. The streets are going to disappear behind the monument no matter what kind of perspective correction I make. Also, is there any way to overlay a grid to deterimine if you are correcting toward straight vertical and horizontal lines.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:33, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I have made my first attempt at perspective correction at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Victory Monument?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:41, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't use GIMP so can't offer much advice. There is a grid in Photoshop that you can turn on, or you can use guides that you drag in off the ruler. I would guess GIMP would have similar. Re that image, it still looks to have a slight tilt, and I've already commented that I think it needs to be taken in better light to be anything near VP standard. --jjron (talk) 12:41, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Brighton Beach, Vic Pano, 10.01.2009.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 03:58, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. --jjron (talk) 07:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

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POTD

Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Zizina labradus-Butterfly-on-Rose SC,-EG-Vic,-23.2.2008.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 2, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-04-02. howcheng {chat} 20:33, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. --jjron (talk) 07:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Well-deserved barnstar

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	For keeping Picture Peer Review under control and not allowing it to overflow (indeed a laborious and repetative task), I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 16:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. --jjron (talk) 16:56, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Advice

Hello, Jjron. You have new messages at Wadester16's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 17:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

So I changed everything from "Image:" to "File:" on the instructions at VPC. All the templates work fine with the change (I checked). Seems you already got this. Might I just be bold and do it over at FPC as well? ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 22:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Did this too. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Decided to just do FPC too. No real reason not to. [1] [2] [3] ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, I just stumbled upon this and left my 2¢. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 00:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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POTD

Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Aust.-Synchrotron-Interior-Panorama,-14.06.2007.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 25, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-04-25. howcheng {chat} 05:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Looks good. --jjron (talk) 13:58, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Kaaba

Hey John, I came across an interesting video about the kaaba and though you may enjoy watching it. --Muhammad(talk) 21:45, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 15:08, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

The video is large, abt 100mb so it you'll probably need a download manager and www.clipnabber.com. Sadly, the albino trade is real. There have been several reports in the local media as well, of acts of violence such as legs chopped down of young albinos. The acts have been fueled by witch doctors who claim that albino body parts can cure incurable diseases and make riches. There have been acts to stop this horror, with the president speaking about it and various dramas being set up to explain to the public. These violent acts usually take place is rural areas with little media exposure, medical facilities and police force so its quite a difficulty tackling the problem. --Muhammad(talk) 18:17, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

It is quite ironic but even in TZ, those kids whose parents are well off and who are sent to good schools usually end up with lousy grades and pay little attention to studies whilst those who go to government schools with few facilities are high achievers. I think there are moves to take the cases to court and hopefully once that's done the problem should decline. --Muhammad(talk) 07:21, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

See this]. Trials have started and there have been no reported killings in 2months. --Muhammad(talk) 16:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Synchrotron,-Quadrupole-Focusing-Magnet,-14.06.2007

I am an editor with Taylor & Francis and one of our authors would like to reproduce this image in his text book on particle physics but has been unable to contact you to seek permission. Can you get back to me on <address removed>.

Thanks John 65.89.84.2 (talk) 16:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Replied via email. --jjron (talk) 13:52, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Sikh pilgrim pic

hey, thanks for the FPC nom. i was waiting for some time to pass to nominate it myself (i'm paulrudd as well, got a bit confused between wikipedia and commons...) from your user page i see you're quite the photographer, so your nomination is well appreciated. --Alllexxxis (talk) 15:16, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sikh pilgrim at Harmandir Sahib

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Sikh pilgrim at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, India.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. MER-C 03:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Re use picture

Hi John, I am starting up a web site on Japanese Gardens and was wondering if I can please use your Nowra image. Thank you Julia Mitchell —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.211.225.190 (talk) 10:26, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I assume you mean Cowra. My images on Wikipedia are generally licensed as GFDL so you'd need to follow those usage and licensing requirements. If you require something else please drop me an email (you can use this link). I'm usually happy to allow free use of my images for non-profit or educational uses, as long as I'm attributed as original creator. --jjron (talk) 07:52, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

FPC Format selector

FYI:

• Panoramas have a height of 200px and are aligned center. This is probably how they would appear in articles.
• Portrait images have a width of 260px.
• Square images have a width of 300px.
• Landscape images have a height of 260px.
• Not specified => width = 250px. MER-C 13:52, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

• Reply here. --jjron (talk) 14:17, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell you selected landscape, because the image always had a height of 260px. Judging from the rest of the noms and the lack of complaints, it appears to be working correctly. MER-C 02:26, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Lima Lima.jpg

Thanks for moving it to Featured nominations. I couldn't figure out how to move it there. I am still trying to figure out things on commons, if nothing else I may learn something from this nomination. Thanks again. --JMSchneid (talk) 02:23, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

No problem. BTW you can't just 'move' it there, you have to create a new nomination, it's different from the PPR nom. Good luck. --jjron (talk) 12:38, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

World Heavyweight Champion

You're pic Jeff-Hardy-&-Triple-H,-RLA-Melb-10.11.2007.jpg says that Randy Orton was the reigning world Heavyweight Champion whereas he was the WWE Champion, I am editing it out. --ShanRaj 10 (talk) 05:14, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, just correct them if they're wrong. I did get the belts mixed up on some other pics - fixed some (possibly those showing Orton), but maybe not all. --jjron (talk) 07:38, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Peer Review Feedback Please?

Hey Jjron, I added an image to the Peer Review section of Wikipedia, I was wondering if you'd look over it/provide some feedback for me? The submission to Peer Review hasn't got much attention, I noticed you contributed there recently.. Anyway, 'nuff said. Cheers, Ard0 ^{(Talk - Contribs)} 22:43, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

No worries, done, but I think NS had beaten me too it. --jjron (talk) 08:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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POTD

Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Arborists-3,-Kallista,-VIC,-09.07.2008.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 19, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-06-19. howcheng {chat} 23:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Cheers, looks OK to me. Thanks Howcheng. --jjron (talk) 08:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Eritrean Railway - Tivedshambo 2008-11-04-edit1.jpg

Hi - I am hoping to change the licensing on my photographs from GFDL-1.2 to multilicence GFDL-1.2 and CC-BY-SA-3.0 in the near future. As you made changes to this image, would you be happy for this to be licensed in the same way? —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 11:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Reply here. --jjron (talk) 13:00, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Judy Garland Main Image Quality

Hi, as an apparent photo expert, might you have a view that you would like to express in the discussion at [4] and [5] as to the quality of the Judy Garland main image? Feel free, if so, to leave your thoughts there, whatever they may be. Tx.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:03, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Opinion offered. --jjron (talk) 13:42, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 18:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Gov Davey's proclamation-edit2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. wadester16 18:16, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Cheers. Was looking a close call there for a while. --jjron (talk) 08:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Nice find, by the way. I found that laughably simple, but damn did it make the point. Too bad they didn't stick to that mantra, but at least they made the effort (for the longest time, we didn't). wadester16 06:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, the Brits were well ahead of their American brethren at the time re those sorts of issues (no offence, I'm from Irish stock myself and as you'd know there was no love lost there with the Brits at the time!). Australia really was at the furthest reaches of empire though, and Van Diemen's Land at the outposts of that. Beyond being a dumping ground for convicts, even free settlers tended to be at the lower ends of the social or moral spectrums in most cases. So the good intentions of those setting the thing up didn't really translate that well to those out in the bush frontiers doing the actual leg work - and despite the claimed intentions 'civilisation' was seen as more important, and we still haven't got that stuff right either even now. --jjron (talk) 10:27, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

On that note I'd be unhappy if the Bay of Fires ends up under control of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council. The ecosystems, landscapes and Aboriginal heritage would be better managed and protected if that land became a national park. Most of the aboriginal land I've visited ends up either covered in rubbish or the general public is blocked from use. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Sad but true, locking those places up seems to have questionable success. Then someone finds mineral riches there and all bets are off anyway. As I say above we still haven't got it right, but it can be hard to know what is right now. --jjron (talk) 12:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/delist/File:Leucanthemum_vulgare_'Filigran'_Flower_2200px_edit1.jpg

Check the signatures: You're counting Kaldari twice. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

No, wait, you're right. Dagnabbed indentation. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 18:21, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Mind closing this?

I asked MER-C the other day, but alas, no response. Would you mind closing this? wadester16 03:50, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

That one's a bit awkward atm. Have left a message on it at this stage. To be honest I aren't particularly inclined to be involved in noms by some editors based on previous behaviour. --jjron (talk) 15:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, fair enough. wadester16 08:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Picture peer review/JCBridge.JPG

Do you mean to say that a picture like File:Champlain Bridge.JPG is closer to what they're looking for at WP:FP? -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 20:58, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Not really, the first big problem being that it's badly cutoff. Lighting on the bridge is better, though I think the photo's a bit bright overall. Here's some existing bridge FPs to compare to: File:Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Dartford, England - Feb 2009.jpg, File:Richmond Bridge Panorama Restitch.jpg, File:Tower bridge London Twilight - November 2006.jpg, File:Sydney Harbour Bridge night.jpg, and File:New River Gorge Bridge.jpg. Drop me a note or put it on PPR if you think you've got any other potentials. --jjron (talk) 07:23, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. On an unrelated note, I found that much of the work involved in taking pictures of bridges is finding the right spot for the camera. Now I took the picture File:Île aux Tourtes Bridge.JPG, and I uploaded it even though I am totally dissatisfied with it. The problem is that, if you look at the Google Earth location of this bridge, it won't take a genius to figure that getting to a suitable location without trespassing is next to impossible. (That picture was shot at maximum zoom from right under the bridge pictured at File:CP bridge Ottawa River East Channel.JPG.) Since I'm not a fan of pictures taken from the passenger seat of a moving car (such as File:Quebec - Pont Pierre-Laporte.JPG), do you have any suggestions? -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 00:47, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

We sometimes say a FPC that we just have to accept there's certain things it is probably not possible to get an FP quality image of - this bridge could be one example. Having said which File:Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Dartford, England - Feb 2009.jpg is probably taken from a similar distance (2.5km away the nominator says) but is obviously higher quality. However, and this is a significant point, you are also limited by your equipment. Diliff (the guy that took the QUII one) is shooting with a Canon 5D DSLR and pro quality lenses, many thousands of dollars worth of camera gear, and the image is created by stitching together multiple individual images of sections of the bridge into an extended panorama. I'm guessing yours is a single photo from a compact digital camera, so we're talking entirely different things in terms of what you can expect of the image. While I'm not saying a photo has to be up to the standard of what Diliff puts together to be featured, the problem is it does set a bit of a standard which makes it hard for the ordinary snappers to compete. That's part of the reason we tried to get the Wikipedia:Valued pictures project going, so that people with just standard equipment but who are contributing good images could get some recognition. So I guess to answer your question, you're limited in what you can do, as I'm assuming you're probably not that keen on spending thousands on equipment. The only other thing I can think of is to take a boat ride to nearer the bridge and perhaps even cobble together a panorama from there, but again, that's really beyond the call of duty, especially if you're talking about multiple images, not just this one particular bridge. --jjron (talk) 06:40, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

!Vote

Hello Jjron, would you take a small portion of your time and !vote on this nomination? If promoted, this will actually be the first VP to be acknowledged by a portal. Thanks, ZooFari 04:05, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Done. --jjron (talk) 13:54, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

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POTD

Hi John,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Nelligen, NSW Early Morning Mist, Panorama, 25.9.2008.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 1, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-08-01. howcheng {chat} 03:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Cheers Howcheng, looks good. --jjron (talk) 07:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

FPC closures

Heya jjorn. Thanx for the reminder, I just added them :) I also added a couple of recent others that hadnt been added there as well. I was thinking that it might be worthwhile seeing if someone could create a script for closing FPC's. It could be made a much faster process and not require so many edits to close an FPC. Seddσn ^talk|^WikimediaUK 09:04, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Silent Valley bridge

Hi John,

Thanks for your comment, agree that this image is bit dark. This was taken during overcast day on my trip to this rain forest. If possible Could you please edit this image to overcome the underexposure?

--Cj.samson (talk) 18:41, 21 August 2009 (UTC)