Hey all, old school fractaleer here

[richrockster]

I'm one of those old school guys who started off with a Pentium 75mhz and a copy of fractint on a CDROM.  Many many hours were spent zooming, colouring and tweaking fractals.  Many years later, I return to fractals and find awesome apps like Ultra Fractal, Apophysis, Fractal Explorer and even 3d fractals - a bit too much for my PC to cope with for some reason.

I'm learning to use Ultra Fractal mostly at the moment, I guess I can see a lot of similarities to Fractint.  My art is available on deviantart - not sure if the rules allow self promotion here, so I'll leave it a while.

I'm also building a personal gallery site, so any advice on how to watermark my images would be great too.

[Madman]

Hi and welcome! There aren't many rules on FF, but somehow that makes it one of the most easy-going and friendly forums on the net! Linking to DA pages is not unusual, just check the galleries

I watermark my fractals by adding a screen layer in photoshop and reduce opacity, so it doesn't become to prominent. I guess there are other ways though...

Hope to see some of your work soon. Dunno why the 3D stuff doesn't work for you, unless you're still on the P75 and Win 3.1  If UF works for you, you can try David Makin's WIP3D files. They are somewhere on this forum, so it's just a question of searching...

[lenord]

Lots of Image editors have a watermark option, PhotoShop has a water marking Action I picked up free somewhere, I never use it though, it also has a watermark remover. I think my Paint.net has one too but I just give my work away anyway so why use it.
**Peace**

[taurus]

hello richrockster,
welcome from me too. i'm a simolar old school fractal maniac. i started with an atari mega st4 and fractals iv. i simply was interested in the philosophical implications of a math, that's strictly deterministic, but still systematically irregular. artistic ambitions were not important in the beginning. it changed by and by.

have fun!
taurus