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Not sure if this is the right place for this. Wanted to ask if anyone has opinions on image skewing to deter art theft? I had an incident with my artwork some time ago. I do a lot of commissions on Facebook. Someone from South Australia took my drawings and started doing the same kind of work. They convined a group of people that they were the original artist and that I was the theif. They went around reporting my posts on Facebook and also the posts by my buyers where whereever the artwork was displayed, claiming copyright infringement. Facebook keot listening to their reports and removing my work. Since a lot of those commissions were for Facebook page banners, people were hesitant to commission me and I lost sales. I tried communicating this to Facebook but they were absolutely unhelpful. I tried contacting a lawyer and couldn't afford to hire. What eventually solved the problem was the wonderful community that stuck up for me. I had posted a video proving my ownership of the PSDs and eventually got my reputation back. Haven't heard from them since. TL;DR - The theif was a tracer. They din't care about low resolution or watermarks because they simply trace the work. Granted, their version of the work looked shoddy compared to mine, but somehow that still managed to achaive their goal. I don't keep a portfolio anymore, but have considered starting up a new one all of the images skewed to look like you're viewing them from an angle (I could pretty it up by putting them in some kind of 'picture frame' background that's tilted. It's harder to show off that way, though, and I'm not sure if anyone's ever done this or how well it may deter theft.

Not surprised! I've seen a lot of people who you would never know, they get around great or they have no cane/glasses so they look completely sighted. It is very much that case if I don't use my cane. I have very thick black tinted glasses (hiding my abnormal heterochromatic eyes) but some people don't know enough about eyewear to know my vision is poor. Very cool that a highly accomplished photographer is legally blind! It's a feat to get great work done in a field where you're disatvantaged, and all the more rewarding. I used to love taking pictures as a kid, though nothing professional, especially at the zoo. While I couldn't see well enough to watch the animals in person, I could see them in the photos and videos I took. Some visually impaired people have a lot of light sensitivity and other issues seeing things in person that technology can capture, but I don't know if that's the case for them. =D It's great to do what you love.

If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize. I want to put an ad on my site through Adsence. The site in question is a livestock browser game. It is about 2 years into development and usually has 4-10 people online at a time. Almost everything on it is in PHP. My application was denied due to 'lack of content.' Is this because of the fact that about 95%+ of our content is stored in the dtabase (even our informational guides)? Or is it because you have to be logged in to view it? (or both)? Our players wanted to add a wiki, which I was considering doing through wikia. I'm not clear on whether that would suffice for Adsense. Does anyone have any suggestions for making my site have more content? I was thinking of creating a bunch of educational resources (HTML pages that are linked from the home page with no required login) on livestock to provide enough content for adsense. Would this do the trick?

We all know that sense of inspiration (hopefully you've experienced it to) that makes you itch to make something of your own whether it be a game, a picture, a tool, writing, resource, or anything else. A lot of my inspiration comes from games I played as a child or hobbies I enjoyed as a teen, but what about recent media? Has anything in recent media (maybe the past 5 years or so) inspired you to create something? What did you make?

The subject of intelligence seems to come up a lot, but what is it exactly? When you think of intelligence, do you think of IQ? Emotional Intelligence? Some other kind of intelligence? Or is your idea of intelligence something more dynamic and less measurable? How important is intelligence to you? What do you picture when you think of 'unintelligent' people?

Hello everyone! How do you stay motivated on a game? Do you have any tricks? Oftentimes you just have to suck it up when you're tired and do the work, that's normal. There's no easy out of trick that will make work not be work. With that said, though, you can trick your brain into making the work a little less streneuous like thinking about the work in smaller portions, setting small daily goals, rewarding yourself, and finding ways to change up the work to keep it interesting. What are some others?

All good ideas from Callum. I'm by no means a professional writer myself. I find it helpful to let my writing sit overnight or days (maybe longer). Then I come back and read through to see if it withstands the test of time.

Thank you for the welcome. It's definitely interesting sometimes! Haha. The logo looks pretty nice =D Thanks for putting this forum together!

Hello! I just joined TGL an hour or so ago. A little about me... I'm 27 and a digital artist. I've been doing digital art for about 15 years. I'm legally blind and very much picked the wrong field LOL. But I love it, no regrets. I also do some web design. I learned PHP last year and hope to one day find time to learn more code. I'm excited to see a new gaming resource forum and look forward to contributing =)