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It is indeed ;) Well done Damien, nice work on the picture :)

i can't thank you people enough for what you've done for me today.
thank you very much, and especially you damien.you deserve a medal.
a very very grateful
andy 1

if the mods told me how much they would extend the avater sizes to i would make it bigger. Dont worry though i will do that when we find out

Andy, Thank YOU. I have become a lot better at photoshop today :D

Have you tried to use the other avatar? it matches the backing

i think i prefer the one with the white background,what do you think

Well it doesn't match the background totally :(

I think something is wrong with the color profiling on my photoshop CS. can some else slightly adjust it so it matches the background?

Or just chose white its your choice :) i am happy to change it if you like? bevel it, put a boarder on it? chose a different color

sorry damien, the wife says its better with the white background, so the white background it is.
now if you could give me six winning lottery numbers for tomorrow night i'll share my winnings with you.lol

11,16,22,19,4 and 28

there ya go! :D

Do you want any changes to the avater. i.e a border or a bevel?

right your on damien i'll take those numbers and if i win i'll go fifty fifty.
as for the avatar i don't no what the avatar would look like with a border or bevel.

Gives it a 'button' feel

Folks here seem to have made some very enthusiastic responses and put in a considerable amount of effort. Nice. OK, the OTHER issue is what to do with the original print.

Take it to a professional photographer is good advice but personally I would not want ANYONE messing around with the original ie treating it directly. I am (very) aprehensive about laminating as a long term solution. My advice is based on the odd 40 years a chemist and with some knowledge of photography and of paper products for the packaging industry - keep the original as DRY AS POSSIBLE. Dryness will halt just about all of the chemical reactions. I have used the technique described below over the last 20-30 years so as to "stop the clock" on a big collection of family photos and paper-based WW2 memorabilia.

I would

a. Get the original back between two sheets of glass (minimises air contact)
b. Buy some silica gel granules (granules are better the powder form. You can buy this from a pharmacy - or a glazing supplier because they use it to remove moisture between primary and secondary glazing.
c. Dry the silica gel by heating it GENTLY in an oven at 150oC for 30 mins. DO NOT trust that it is already dry. It is possible that they gel you buy will contain some indicator gel crystals. These are pink when the gel is damp but blue when it is dry. Pay a bit extra for these if necessary.
d. As soon as the gel is cool pack it in a plastic bag punctured with some holes (you do not need many holes - stab the bag a couple of dozen times with a big needle/ BBQ skewer)
e. Put a flattened bag of gel in front and behing the glass-enclosed original print and then pack the whole lot in another plastic bag sealed with tape. Use a good, thick, plastic eg builder's rubble bags or (and this is the technique I use) put the silica gel bags and photo in glass into an A4 polypropylene document box file (Staples BK-365-703 because these are black/ opaque) and seal the box with tape. Personally I always pad out the box file with more plastic bags so that the package is firm/ does not rattle. It just 'seems' safer that way.

Experience speaking - MARK the package to say what it contains and that it is fragile. Put it somewhere cool and safe.

REMEMBER
- Where you have put it
- Once per year open the outer pack to check the print but importantly to re-dry the silica gel in the oven.

Hope that helps

thanks for the advice snodvan

tried the button damien what do you think

I like it like that but thats me, your choice :)

you like it,my son likes it,i like it so the button it is.
ps don't tell the wife

while were at it how do you get your bbc banner on your post every time

ok, Anything else or is that it?

oh, do you want me to send you a ZIP file of all 4 images? They are saved in tiff format which is a better file type than JPG?

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Originally Posted by andy 1

while were at it how do you get your bbc banner on your post every time

Go to your control panel, then go to edit sig (like you did for your avatar) and then place the URL of the image you want like this:

[IMG] INSERT URL HERE [/IMG]

Do you wanna a image there then? :tu:

no thats it damien,sorry to have kept you so long.i've already saved the avatars thank you.i'll let you know how the lottery numbers do.
thanks
andy 1

LOL :D

Ok, Glad to help :). If you want a picture in your sig just let me know ;)

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Originally Posted by snodvan

fantastic advice.

Laminating will put a layer of glue on the front of the image, over time, that glue will change its chemical properties, go brittle, discolour, as will the plastic in the laminate.

Laminating is great for greasy spoon menu cards, but not for posterity. You would not be looking at the image now if had been laminated in the 90's