Fan Content, Art, and Media

[boinsie]

Ameba doesn't take kindly to hotlinking.

[iceymoon]

fixed.
but they really should, most servers can handle all sorts of hotlinking.. it's really not a big deal these days. o-o

[Starra]

Actually, it is, because it costs them extra bandwidth.

Idk, I've always found it rude .

[iceymoon]

it takes existing bandwidth, it doesn't charge them per load or anything.
the point being that most servers these days have so much bandwidth and images on average are pretty small.. it doesn't actually affect anything most of the time. i understand it for like H!O because they're privately owned and have a large volume of HUGE images and decently heavy traffic/usage for a website their size, but most places (even privately owned like my own website) won't be affected at all even if like a few hundred people hotlink some of my large images.

in general it's a good view to have because you never know, but the truth is it's mostly a 10-years-ago problem that these days is an almost imaginary threat (when it comes to images or any file under, say 5mb). Ameba should be equipped to handle all sorts of bandwidth requests for a website with as much traffic as they have, is all. and if they're not, that's not good for them. more than likely they do that so that people might instead share the link and people would be forced to click to their site, thus providing even more traffic.

there goes my attempt at bringing things back to being on-topic.

[boinsie]

Just so we're clear, I wasn't trying to call you out for hot-linking... originally for me the image just didn't load, and I figured Ameba had some anti-theft code worked in.

[iceymoon]

yeah, i figured. ^-^ i was mostly responding to Starra.

does anyone have any actual fanart for this thread? i looked for Harry Potter x H!P (HPxH!P lol) fanart, but i actually didn't find any. somebody needs to make some. D:

[AyuHikaru]

^ Damnit, now I must draw some... I wonder what houses the girls would be in...

[otaku_blue]

amazing Kananan fanart o.o
[youtube]vYuQC-wguec[/youtube]

[AyuHikaru]

Anyone with Photoshop wanna teach me how he did that gradiant shading while coloring thing =O Save so much time

[iceymoon]

it just looks like he filled a layer and changed the layer style, but i can't figure out what would have that exact effect.
you can achieve something similar by adding a Fill Layer (gradient, black or other dark color on one end, transparent on the other; adjust until you like the shading result it gives) and setting that layer to Overlay (you can also play with the fill opacity of this layer). you can even have multiple of these layers and mask them so that they don't overlap each other on certain parts.

but yeah, i couldn't figure out exactly what he did on his since it's LQ and goes by so fast.