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[Exotic Flower]

Looks good!

Thanks, @Dr. Babnik.
Hope you've been well.

 

[Master_gRoshi]

forgive my typing this morning. its been horid

 

[Ozone69]

Good morning ! Beautiful bud you have there ! May I ask how you put the insignia on the lower left hand corner ? I found a ton of my pics on Instagram that I didn't even know was on there, I'd like to start tagging them if I can. Hope you don't mind my asking.

I use a program called GIMP which is an open source (ie...free) photo editing software. Procedure looks something like this:

First, create your watermark. Logo, image, initials, or whatever little "stamp" you want to put on each picture. Create it using a transparent background. This will allow it to easily layer over your pictures and blend in better. I also reccomend playing around with the size a little until it's a good fit for the photo format your camera saves it's pictures in and then save a copy it in that size so you don't have to resize every time. Here's mine:

Once you've got your watermark created and saved, here's how I add it to an image.

1. Open the image you want to watermark in GIMP
2. Go to the file menu and select "Open as layers..."
3. Find and open your watermark. After opening it should be floating over your image
4. If the layers toolbox is not visable, use CTRL-L to open it. Adjust the opacity on your watermark layer until it blends in how you like. For me, 50% opacity is usually around where it looks the way I want
5. Use the move tool to position the watermark layer where you want it on the image
6. If you want to keep your original un-edited image and not overwrite it, go to the file menu and select "export as..." and save in the location and format you would like. Otherwise just save back over the original image using "File -> Save" or "File -> Overwrite imagename"

 

[Rifleman]

View attachment 726097 Anyone ever used a trimming machine with success? I'm skeptical...

I've been wanting to try one of the Trim Bags. It's manually operated so the trimming isn't as violent. I'd use the trim and any of the trichomes that come off with it in butter so it looks like an easy way to trim a lb or two quickly. The $330US price is keeping it from happening though.

Hint: If you're connected to Trim Bag and are looking for a tester for this or another forum, I am available. I really want one of these, can you tell.

 

[Ozone69]

View attachment 726097 Anyone ever used a trimming machine with success? I'm skeptical...

@sanguine posted up a review of one a little while back that was mostly positive: https://www.autoflower.org/threads/bowl-trimmer-review-by-sanguine.56531/

The biggest complaint I've heard on them is that with the way the fingers move the buds around they can knock of some of the trich's. I don't know that they would knock off enough to negate the time savings for a lot of folks, though.

Someone, don't remember who, also was using a little wand trimmer a bit back that they seemed to really like that's another option:

 

[9bear]

View attachment 726097 Anyone ever used a trimming machine with success? I'm skeptical...

Never used one , but read that they haved to be cleaned after each use and that their a bitch to clean.

 

[Dr. Babnik]

I've been wanting to try one of the Trim Bags. It's manually operated so the trimming isn't as violent. I'd use the trim and any of the trichomes that come off with it in butter so it looks like an easy way to trim a lb or two quickly. The $330US price is keeping it from happening though.

Hint: If you're connected to Trim Bag and are looking for a tester for this or another forum, I am available. I really want one of these, can you tell.

Yeah...we would like to test...

 

[Dr. Babnik]

from what i understand those are good for mass trimming. but will beat some buds up and take some of the god stuff of of them

Never used one , but read that they haved to be cleaned after each use and that their a bitch to clean.

As I was guessing... it was a moment of laziness. I have good siccors. :smoking:

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

@Dr. Babnik Hello my friend how are you today? I've just finished assembling a small greenhouse and planted my first non-canna plants! Cucumbers, lettuce, etc

 

[Dr. Babnik]

Thanks, @Dr. Babnik.
Hope you've been well.

As my good friend Dr. Hannibal Lecter would have said it: I'm home and very happy and very healthy.