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I have uploaded a pic of my hair taken when it's 100% dry. I'm sorry the photo quality couldn't be much better. I had to break into PaintShop Pro and turn up the brightness/contrast, and this is the best I could do. For those of you with dial-up, be patient, please.
Please ignore the download link next to my pics. I use that page for temporary things such as this, misc. downloads, etc. I had to construct a music file using Finale to point out a technical problem in some piano sheet music, so that's why you see "ex1.mus" next to one of my pics. Just ignore it. :p
You uploaded it as a BMP. No wonder it takes a while to download. :)
Bah. :D
very nice progress man.
looks great. for how long have you been growing your hair ?
About four years or so... with regular, adequate trims. It's about time for another one.
before you had always short hair ?
Yes.
how did your family accept this change ?
Looks like you are right at your goal of waist length. Your hair looks fantastic. Keep it growing!!!
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Lookin' good. I think we have similar hair types, except yours looks straighter. If you scroll down you'll see that I just got my cheapo camera working. If your cam's not so good, lighting and software can make a big difference. I've got a light with a dimmer switch that I've been playing around with. I also use a shareware program called PolyView. A cool trick I've discovered is to blow up the image, use the automatic color balancer, use the scratch removal tool, and then scale the image back down. If you run Windows you might want to give PolyView a try (no, I have no relationship with them at all, I'm just a happy user of the software).
Although a little hard to see, you have some fantastic hair. Kudos for such a great achievement, and at only 18 years old. Your hair is almost to your waist. To be able to grow your hair to such a length at such a young age shows real determination and patience, which are great attributes for a teenager to have. Absalom
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I tried to do a gamma correction with GIMP with limited success however. See the result - as jpeg file.
A Linux Longhair
Great Hair but...
Any chance you could save your photos as JPG's as the BMP files are murder to download, even with broadband.
Worth the wait thought :-)
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I did some processing with GIMP and got a JPG file that can be uploaded here.
A Linux Longhair
Thanks, appreciate the gesture, I toyed with the idea myself but it would have been the second time in 24 hours I'd find myself messing with Michaels images. Yesterday I was playing with the colour balance of the first image in Photoshop when Zombie beat me to it. :-(
Michael -
May I suggest using your camera's flash if it has one? There is much more light on the wall than on your hair and the camera isn't seeing your hair.
No flash on the webcam, sorry.
To be honest, it looks VERY similar to the wet pic, but it's incredibly long and silky for your age!
