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Kinda thinking whatever you can do to help it look better. Mostly getting rid of the Russian writing or just cropping that whole section of writing (either one, use judgment). Anything else to make it look clearer, although I suspect the issue is the original drawing.

TCO (talk) 20:34, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, I'll gladly work on this and see what I can do ;) Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 21:48, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok matey sorry I've taken a while, its taken a fair amount of time. I got rid of the shadowing and traces of paper from the photo. I also worked from the originial file File:HMS Beagle 1832 longitudinal section.jpg as the later version had been blurred by increasing the resolution too much, so you may notice the new file is smaller but the details are much clearer. Either way the line drawing is much easier to see now, hope this is close to what you were after but if not let me know and I'll try and sort it. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 22:27, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good upgrades! I would have had no clue even what to ask for. One thing I wonder about is either cutting or maybe spreading, the numbered explanations. The issue, we always have with pics, is how long they go down the page in terms of layout. And that is a lot of blank space down there. I like blowing up the size to where the image is viewable without clicking as it is more visually pleasing and as a lot of non-wiki regulars (our readers) don't even know about the click option.TCO (talk) 22:35, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You made a good point there so I cropped away the numbered explanations and added them instead to the file description to remove that excess space. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 00:54, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

SMOOOCH! Thanks for putting up with an old permabannee like me! go turtle!!!!!TCO (talk) 00:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Will you please support or oppose? [1] TCO (talk) 03:36, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so kindly for the very thoughtful image review of state reptiles as well as the fixes themselves. It is such a joy to find the good people and work with them! We got the star!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TCO (talk • contribs) 23:59, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. You were nice enough to have helped me several times with images in the past, and I was wondering if you might help me with another one. I uploaded this portrait, which for its age, is remarkably well preserved.[2] The only thing amiss is that the original format, when uploaded here, leaves big white patches on either side. Is there a way to remove those? Thanks in advance for any help, and for your assistance in the past as well. MarmadukePercy (talk) 20:14, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey. No problem, I'll have a look into it. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 20:26, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok it should be sorted now ;) Fallschirmjäger ✉ 20:32, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Darn, you are fast! Once again, much appreciated! Best, MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:07, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Starting another project. Think it will have one cool, kinda new twist: range maps in a table. Appreciate any help and advice. [3]

TCO (talk) 02:36, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey TCO, I'd be happy to help. For starters it shouldn't be necessary to make the TX county maps from scratch, as excellent, workable SVG's of each already exist. (see here). I can use these as a starting point and serve as a blank canvas and can add to them whatever is required. Just getting the data for all 254 counties I can see is going to be one mammoth undertaking! While things are still in the planning stage I think it would be wise to consider exactly what species of turtles we intend to map, to be thorough I think it would be best to include all, so sea turtles, land turtle, aquatic, and terrapins and I'm guessing its gonna be a rather long list as TX is a big state. But I'd be happy to help out wherever I can. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 17:15, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are about 30 species. It will be a bit of a work project, but I think will make the article "special". Have not seen anyone do this.

Getting the ranges (or calling them, since there will be source variation) will be on me. Maybe if we did something like numbering the counties, it would help for coordination? I am expecting a lot of species in East Texas will just be in sort of a swath there, so could just say " a line east of ...".

I'm not totally hung up on the county-level precision, but was trying to come up with a system of coordinates, so that we could be efficient. Some states (VA, ME) actually have county-level sampling, but I don't know for Texas yet. I was more thinking as a tool for us to draw. Something to make it easy for you to draw the maps once there is a system.

Agreed, the sea turtles, we can just draw as offshore (maybe out to some limit, territorial waters or "economic zone"). They do come on land to nest, but just occasionaly and only penetrating a few yards inland. Would display their range as in ocean. The diamondback terrapin is only found in the row of the couple counties closest to the ocean.

TCO (talk) 17:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove all images that came from my site, albumartexchange.com. Our site has a strict policy on posting our images anywhere on the web. They are intended for PERSONAL, non-commercial use ONLY.

Thank you, Scott Robb, Owner, AlbumArtExchange.com admin at albumartexchange.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.60.205.220 (talk) 01:53, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your effort. Do you think it would be a good idea to write information about book in the source section?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:30, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Yes I should have done it earlier sorry, I've added the information to the image description now. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 22:49, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance you can do the levels/brightness/contrast on this photo too? File:MCPON John Hagan.jpg Thanks. Connormah (talk) 19:10, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, no problem. Fallschirmjäger ✉ 19:19, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This Special Barnstar is given to Fallschirmjäger for wikifying 33 articles, and helping to eliminate the 2008 backlog. Thanks for participating, and please be sure to help out at our next drive! Sumsum2010·T·C 17:06, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

can you please help with this request, it's stale [4]. Thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 08:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry for the delayed reply, I've been away for a few days. I have done 3 of the 5 sets of panoramas, the other 2 I was unable to do due to too much variation in perspective/angle and colouring. Yout can find them below. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 16:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 18:38, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi again. You've been most helpful in the past, and I wondered if I might run something by you. I uploaded this image on Commons [5], which I found an extraordinary image (and one of several proposed Confederate flag designs I found at Beinecke). The image was subsequently fiddled with, and it hasn't worked out well (in my opinion). What I was hoping for was to have the back border removed as in this instance [6], while retaining the aged look of the original (as is the case in the diploma). Instead, the original lovely faded color of the original has been replaced by a rather modern-looking garish red. I wonder if you might have a 'go' at this? As always, many thanks! Best, MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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He Fallschirmjäger, last week (or a bit longer ago) I posted a request at the maps workshop for a map featuring the 300 stations of the international monitoring system (Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop#Stations_of_the_International_monitoring_system), which you may have seen. As the request is a bit complex (stations location data are in a us file, an example in another one), I think it has not been picked. I was wondering (and hoping!) if you could take a look if it is something for you (if you have the time)! Rgds! L.tak (talk) 09:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi L.tak. Thanks for considering me for the request. Unfortunately I'm rather busy at the moment and have not got much spare time to spare but if I get an extended free period I shall certainly take a look into it. Regards, Fallschirmjäger ✉ 16:03, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! these are not small tasks indeed... Rgds! L.tak (talk) 19:34, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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