just some odd images here and there

The children's age group (market) would be mostly toddlers.....so parents would be dealing with it, not the children.....but I think it would work no matter how you went with it because parents would eat up the ease of just popping up a story on the computer.....or just laying in bed with their children at night and doing a bedtime story with their laptops.....

This whole idea can be easily done.....just little gif animations to enhance the visual experience for children (and thus making it more fun to learn how to read).....like with just a waterfall running in the background, trees swaying in the wind, characters doing simple motions that go with the story line, etc....

Parents can also be allowed story options.....like choosing text size, color, and having extensive font options.....and maybe even having options for different voices reading the story.....like options for having different voices reading the story.....male or female voice, British accents, ect (whatever a child preferes hearing).....maybe even in different languages (text and voice) for a world-wide market.....$$$$$$$$$.....

Further, you could get alot of people from here to help with something like this....like Ron developing new characters with Maya, ConnieKat with clothing, I could help with developing the stories and layouts, Carl with the gif animations (he loves doing them.....and got hooked on that little gif animator program for some reason ).... etc etc etc.....

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Carl wrote: subscription like online magazines

Yeah, that would work.....

I've never found anything online like what I'm talking about here.....and believe me, I've looked.....got three children of my own.....and many other children in our families that are here alot.....

If you know of some, can you post the addresses??? I would like to check them out.....and would probably end up using them.....

The closest thing that I could find to my suggestion is little "play pages".....where children can click on things for pop-ups or play little games.....

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Kraellin wrote: now you're almost sounding more like a computer program rather than an online children's book.

Well, it is behind the scenes.....but the end result is 110% for children.....and gives parents alot of different customization options for how it can be presented to their children.....like the same story can be made to look different every time, eh???

The possibilities could be endless for teaching children online how to read as well.....

That's the entrepreneurial spirit!!!

I think that something like this really has the potential to take off and become big!!!

How ironic would it be for you to follow in your mother's footsteps with something like this???

Don't forget the new ones from Carl.....like "noice" and "bugger".....Carlbonics..... ..... LOL.....

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Kraellin wrote: and then another version using foxxee's 'pastel and carbon'

oo which filter is that and have you uploaded it? If not why not? Cause I really really like the look of that... pretty please

Okay my bad just noticed the Foxxee bit.. okay of to raid her filters.. cause I must have missed this one!

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Kraellin wrote: so, no teases this time

Ya, that's what you always say..... ..... LOL....

still refining the falls filter, the short version. here's pam behind some of the revised falls.

here's an example of seamless either as a river or falls. as a river, i'm not real crazy about this example, but ok.

ok, i uploaded the new falls filter. this is just the stripped version with falls only, no pool, mist or anything else. just falls.

but, i've taken the new falls and put it back into the old full waterfalls and it's lookin good

i'm probably going to redo the background of the old waterfalls and do the same thing or just import something else into it. it's a lot easier to manage all the features of the waterfalls filters by taking each feature out and doing it all by itself.

that looks pretty Craig

+3 I like the background change as well.....

Really??? I don't remember it......oh well, open mouth insert foot.....

and, to keep things going, this ought to stir some texture artist's juices

and you want noise? how bout a little 3d, layered noise?

very weird [ in a good way ]- first one very different

rofl, said the pot to the kettle

ah, you like the last one. yes, that one is intriguing. it's like a vortex of woodchips or something. so, cool

I like 3, 5 and 6, that's counting down from the top of the page of all the images

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Kraellin wrote: i need a gallery here

FF was supposed to put gallery links on all filters.....kinda turning them into their own little websites.....but I don't know what happened to it.....maybe it will come in V2......

It certainly would.....because as it stands, they get buried, scattered throughout the threads, and don't get seen again.....but with a gallery link, they would all be together and viewed all the time.....

and then we add piclens...

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Kraellin wrote: and then we add piclens...

Ssssh not if your name is StevieJ