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[HelixSix]

Not trying to blow something up here but this is very suspicious. This is a scaled down image of one of the pictures by titusboy25 on his account, http://www.wallpapers-room.com/random/author-357/



This is woohoo's picture.



This is a very fine line he is riding. If you compare the bottom half of the image I provided with his the small bright rectangles will lign up near perfectly in almost all the spots. And needless to say the vertical color tones mimic each other.

I technically cant say it's a copy since it has been altered but it appears one or more people did the following. Cut about 40% of the top off. Blurred the image. Faded the bottom into black at different places mostly to clear a spot for the picture of Alizée. And possibly stretched the image in a few places.

I'm almost certain titus is the original designer, but even if he isn't this was copied from somebody whose name was erased from it. However many times this has been copied or altered the people who did it aren't very skilled at ripping off somebody else's work.

What tops the cake is that woohoo has the nerve to put his name on it.

[woohoo]

I just typed "color explosion" into google image and got this

http://images.google.com/images?q=co...&imgsz=l&tbo=1

I thought it looked cool and i used it, sorry.
I can put titus' name on it if he wants.

Pm me to work it out.

[VVVACCPLPNLY]

I am very proud that no thread I have started has been locked. Please don't fight. If he copied, take that up wth the original artist.

Originally Posted by docdtv

We now return to our originally scheduled program.

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by Beaner360

Very great job. just one thing, you forgot an "n" in "Enfant" other than that it's perfect

One more thing - it's Siècle, not Siécle.

Regarding the "original authorship" issue, I'm not so sure Titusboy originated this glittery rainbow image, either. I found it on this site (full of free wallpapers to download), with NO signature on it.
http://nxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/7/...half_lines.jpg

So who's to say?

[HelixSix]

Well the guy made some with and without his name on them. They are on his profile at that site I posted, and he has an account at deviantart that has them too. Either he made them or he is a big time faker that will eventually get punched through his monitor.

Usually when somebody makes nice graphics they will spread all over the place, kind of like music pirating. I can't say if he minds people using some of his graphics in certain ways...but I don't think any artist likes making something and having somebody else claim it as their own. Usually when you put your ID at the top or bottom of an image in small print it means you made it. That's pretty much the problem.

I was looking for wallpapers when I found that picture. Couldn't really stop myself from posting. Basically just a warning to people because if you get caught the author might hit you hard. Of course when you become better with photoshop you won't have to worry about it.

Now if that guy made a tutorial on how to create that graphic then it is an entirely different story.

[woohoo]

This is titus'



and this is the one i used
http://nxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/7/...half_lines.jpg

You can tell some one just croped the second image, so it was originally Titus'.
So i will put that he made the background on my pic.

ok any spelling mistakes or any thing?

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/c...woo2/eyes3.jpg

And Chuck what is the difference between é and è like what do they sound like?

[VVVACCPLPNLY]

Not really much difference in sound. Except è ís softer than é.

[CFHollister]

Originally Posted by VVVACCPLPNLY

Not really much difference in sound. Except è ís softer than é.

That's not true.
é is much closer to an english long A sound. However, the american english long A is actually a diphthong that starts at short e and ends at long E. é is the pure vowel between these two endpoints.

è is the pure vowel that is identical to the english short e.

PS I really wish I could type in the international phonetic alphabet here. Then I could be exact with which sounds I'm talking about.
Edit: This will have to do (the vowel chart from teh international phonetic alphabet)...



é is the non-rounded, close mid, front vowel (looks like 'e')

è is the non-rounded, open mid, front vowel (looks like epsilon, or backwards 3 if you don't know greek)

american english long A is a vowel sound that starts at non-rounded, open mid, front (epsilon on chart), and 'slides' while being pronounced to non-rounded, close (or near close), front (looks like 'i' on chart but in casual pronunciation usually doesn't make it 100% to that end point. So that's why it's close to é ('e' on chart), the long A in american english slides right through its territory). Other dialects of english preserve the pure vowel that is identical to the french é, but not so much with standard american english.

[VVVACCPLPNLY]

Oh, at first I thought you were saying è sounded like 'i' or 'ee' for you anglophiles. Thanks for clarifying, I have been saying si-a-kl instead of si-e-kl. I know about the purer sound thing, my French teacher pounded that into my freaking head for weeks. And I don't have epsilon, but if I press 's' twice really quick, I get beta: ß Lol does that even show up on a computer? Looks kind of like a capital B, but the top is rounded, and the bottom corner does not connect!

[CFHollister]

Originally Posted by VVVACCPLPNLY

...And I don't have epsilon, but if I press 's' twice really quick, I get beta: ß Lol does that even show up on a computer? Looks kind of like a capital B, but the top is rounded, and the bottom corner does not connect!

LOL, that's not beta
That's the german "double-" or "sharp-s" (german, scharfes-S). It's pronounced that same as double s (or simply an s) and that's why you get it by pressing s twice. There are reasons in the evolution of german spelling why it exists. Its form is partially derived from an alternate form of s that was long-used in english that looked like an f without the cross (and sometimes a curved tail at the bottom). Interesting stuff.

Take a look here:
wikipedia article in english