BK7 pic....while its still new

Richard

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Just figured I would get a pic of my new Becker before I use it so it still looks purty and new.

jul+1+becker.jpg


Just handling it and looking at it, this would seem to be a really nice, useful and durable knife. If it performs like it looks, im gonna be real happy.
 
Hi Hey Richard

Really, really nice photo.... I hope you like the performance as much as the looks !

Thanks for sharing it with us...

All Best

Ethan
 
Thanks for the kind words on the pic. Its so much easier to do a good pic if you have a great looking knife to start with.

Dex, no problem on the wallpaper....if you can help me out with a couple of questions:

Not being the most computer literate person in the world, how does one make it wallpaper? Is it just a jpeg file? Also, what size does it need to be?

Ethan, I got this as a friend of mine has a Campanion....one of the older ones that he has had for years. It has what looks like a lite gray coating on the blade. He loves that knife, and hes not easy to please....so if he likes it, it must be good. I like a little longer blade for an outdoor working fixed blade, so this one should suit me fine.
 
Originally posted by Richard
Dex, no problem on the wallpaper....if you can help me out with a couple of questions:

Not being the most computer literate person in the world, how does one make it wallpaper? Is it just a jpeg file? Also, what size does it need to be?
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It can be a jpeg, but a .bmp might be better. As for size, it depends on the setting of each computer. Most people have their settings at either 800 x 600 pixels or 1024 x 768 pixels. That's only if you want the pic to be exactly the size of the screen. You can always center a smaller pic.

Great looking pic...puts my photography skills to shame. Is that a product of Photoshop?
 
Thanks for the help.

Ok, think I got it figured out here. I did a version that has the actual photo as 800x600. It is surrounded by a black border which is 1024x768. That way, it will work on screens with either resolution. If your 800x600, you will see the photo only, if your 1024x768 then the photo will have the black border (which looks really cool on the desktop).

The file is a jpeg and is approx 66K in size. If you want the revised version for wallpaper, post your email and I will send it to you. Trust me, the black border really adds to it when its wallpaper.

ZENGHOST: Not photoshop. It is a program called "Microsoft Picture It! Photo Premium". Really cool little program.
 
In the grand scheme of things my BK7 looks pretty much like new, i've been lucky so far in that all the crap i've gotten on it (paint, log residue, ivy residue, dirt, etc etc etc.) has for the most part come off.
The BK7 is a truly incredible work knife, the only problem with that is it won't stay purdy forever :(
 
Originally posted by ZENGHOST
It can be a jpeg, but a .bmp might be better.
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IMO using bmp for wallpaper will waste HD space and memory space. Sure the pictures are uncompressed, but a well tweaked JPEG would compress very well while having a minimal lost of quality. Even if you use maximum quality for JPEG it would still be less than a bmp file.
I've seen some excellent wallpapers with some pretty complex composition (read: babes ;)) and they turned out very well.
 
One more shot just for the heck of it:
jul+6+becker+3a.jpg
 
Originally posted by calyth

IMO using bmp for wallpaper will waste HD space and memory space. Sure the pictures are uncompressed, but a well tweaked JPEG would compress very well while having a minimal lost of quality. Even if you use maximum quality for JPEG it would still be less than a bmp file.
I've seen some excellent wallpapers with some pretty complex composition (read: babes ;)) and they turned out very well.
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That is true, and in fact my digicam does JPEGs and they come out great. My thinking, though, is that storage space isn't so much an issue nowadays with the huge hard drives that are around, and a person can always knock a bitmap down to a JPEG if they need the space, but it doesn't necessarily work the other way around. I could be wrong (usually am), but that was the rationale behind my statement. For posting on the web, though, I'd never use a bitmap (that's when space really becomes a factor).

-Z
 
By the way, Richard, great second pic as well, can you email me both of them? Thanks.

-Z
 
It really depends on the amount of ram do you have and the operating system that you're using.
IMO if you're not using win2k or above and have like at least 128MB ram, I'd make all wallpapers JPEG just in case windows decideds to eat up the ram. Of cause, if you use Macs that's a different problem that I won't be able to help determine.
 
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