Hi!

You see, this journal is not made in these bright and shiny colours, so it's not a part of "Exploring a country". Yet, it's a journal! At least...

First, I really want to apologize! My last journal is about 10 weeks old and apart from some single pics, I was pretty inactive here on dA. Let me explain, why.
First off, I have to admit that I relaxed after finishing my studies and enjoyed the summer... which unfortunately is about to end too soon. Besides that, I was not inactive at all. I've been searching for a job since, what turns out to be pretty hard in times like this. At the same time, I helped my girlfriend in ending her studies, even if that mainly meant keeping the house, cooking, organizing our daily needs to give her the maximum amount of time. After that, I helped my mother to move to Braunschweig and my soon-to-be-a-police-officer sister to move to Nienburg.
Doing all this, I almost forgot that I turned a year older, which makes my a really old man of 26! Nah...
It simply is, that I did merely have two or three days of unlimited time to complete such a journal - that's about how long it takes. I'm really sorry for this and I'll try my very best to finish the "Exploring a country"-serie in the remaining weeks of this year. I can't promise to write one journal every single week, but perhaps, one every 14 days will work.

Let's just say: I'm back to dA!
I hope you did not loose interest in either my serie or my art. To make sure my journals after finishing "Exploring a country" don't turn into personalized rubbish (like this one here), I want you to get involved in the process of finding a new topic.
Yet, there are 4 states of Germany left, plus a resume, so I'll sure ask this question again later, but I'd like you to think of it: What feature-serie shall I start after "Exploring a country" is finished? You know, I really like to write some text over simply showing random pictures... and I want it to be a serie again. Short or long doesn't matter.

Next, before I start to bore anyone, I want to make this journal a little useful.
Did you ever wonder whether your browser displays colours in the way, the artist wanted them to be seen?! I bet most of you did not. You should - if you don't want to be colourblind.

Besides Safari, most browsers don't have a real colour management. FireFox does, so make sure you use it correctly.
If you still use the old version 3.0, the colour managelemt will be switched off after installing the browser. In version 3.5, it's switched on, but not completely.
To make it work, you only have to follow these simple steps:

Both version:
In your address bar of your FireFox, enter about:config - and promise the browser to be careful!
You will see a bunch of settings for FireFox, we only need one particular. In the filter bar, enter gfx. Most of the text will disappear, only a hand full of rows will stay. We need the gfx.color_management.mode row! Now, the procedure starts to differ.

Version 3.0:
Right click the row, and click edit (I guess that's how they named it in the Englich version), which would be the first of all options.
Set the value to true.
Restart FireFox.

Version 3.5:
Right click the row, and click edit (I guess that's how they named it in the Englich version), which would be the first of all options.
Set the value from default set 2 to 1.
Restart FireFox.

Don't worry, there is no chance to make anything kaputt!
Yet, if you find that all pictures look weird and definately false, switch back to default. Normally, you will see no striking difference on most pictures, but you assure that you really see pics on dA and elsewhere in the way they are supposed to look like by their creators.

For my German readers, more details and some testing images can be found here. The English readers (and all the others as well) should simply google for firefox color management, there will be enough for your information-searching brains.

So, press your thumbs nothing stops me from becoming a little more dActive again!
Let me just show you my most recent deviations and then say goodbye!



Goodbye...
Malte

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What makes a picture a good photography?
Answer into my journal forum.