Can you help with missing gallery images?

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 11:27AM CDT

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Hey everyone,

I'm missing pictures from 43 galleries that were posted between July 4th, 2007 and August 18th, 2007. If you're one of those people that like to download all of the images from my galleries, I'd love to talk to you to see if you have some of the images I'm missing. The images that I'm looking for are the larger ones that are at least 750 pixels wide. I can generate the 500 pixel and 100 pixel wide images from the full size images. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's a list of the galleries of which I do not have backups:

Botcon 2007 exclusives
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Alpha Trion
Beta Maxx
Bugbite
Dirge
Dreadwind
Huffer
Mirage
Springer
Thrust
Thundercracker
Vector Sigma
Weirdwolf

Transformers G1
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Darkwing
Dirge
Dreadwind
Dreadwing
Hi-Test
Ironhide
Ramjet
Ratchet
Throttle
Thrust
Darkwings (Masterforce)
Buster (Masterforce)
Hydra (Masterforce)
Buster (Masterforce)
Hydra (Masterforce)
Deszaras (Victory)

Transformers Movie
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Battle Blade Starscream (Fast Action Battler)
Ion Blast Jazz (Fast Action Battler)
Double Missile Brawl (Fast Action Battler)
Cannon Blast Ironhide (Fast Action Battler)
Power Hook Optimus Prime (Fast Action Battler)
Axe Attack Ratchet (Fast Action Battler)
Dreadwing (Deluxe)
Bumblebee (Concept Camaro)
Arcee (Deluxe)
Brawl (Leader class)

Miscellaneous
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Soundwave (Spark Blue) - Music Label
Soundwave (White) - Music Label
Ramulus (Green version borrowed from Hartmans) - Beast Wars Transformers
Rodimus - Transformers: Alternators
Menasor Titanium Series

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Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807886)
Posted by mattyc1007 on October 9th, 2008 @ 11:49am CDT

how'd you loose them was it that decepticon of a flood?

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807902)
Posted by Seibertron on October 9th, 2008 @ 12:00pm CDT

mattyc1007 wrote:how'd you loose them was it that decepticon of a flood?

It was a completely unrelated situation. The server, which is hosted by a company called ThePlanet in Houston, crashed the same weekend that I was dealing with the massive flooding in Chicago last month. Talk about when it rains it pours! Let's just say that was not one of my favorite weekends last month.

I've been in the process of restoring the images on the site for the past few weeks but I do not have backups of the galleries listed above. Either I'll need to redo those galleries or we'll be without them for a little while. I'd prefer to restore them from backups that some users might have made. I've been told by some people that they keep copies of all of the images I post.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807904)
Posted by Skowl on October 9th, 2008 @ 12:01pm CDT

I've got most of these from the TF Movie:

Dreadwing (Deluxe)
Bumblebee (Concept Camaro)
Arcee (Deluxe)
Brawl (Leader class)

I'll email them to you when I get home from work tonight.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807910)
Posted by mattyc1007 on October 9th, 2008 @ 12:05pm CDT

tut tut tut

skowl on seibertron while at work?

(i dont know what you do, but still at work?) :mrgreen:

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807913)
Posted by Seibertron on October 9th, 2008 @ 12:07pm CDT

Skowl wrote:I've got most of these from the TF Movie:

Dreadwing (Deluxe)
Bumblebee (Concept Camaro)
Arcee (Deluxe)
Brawl (Leader class)

I'll email them to you when I get home from work tonight.

Please tell me you have the full galleries

That would be truly awesome!

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807930)
Posted by Skowl on October 9th, 2008 @ 12:30pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:
Skowl wrote:I've got most of these from the TF Movie:

Dreadwing (Deluxe)
Bumblebee (Concept Camaro)
Arcee (Deluxe)
Brawl (Leader class)

I'll email them to you when I get home from work tonight.

Please tell me you have the full galleries That would be truly awesome!

I don't have the full galleries, but I do have a large number of the pics.

mattyc1007 wrote:tut tut tut

skowl on seibertron while at work?

(i dont know what you do, but still at work?)

I'm not at work right now.

No computers where I work anyway.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807944)
Posted by capellamusic on October 9th, 2008 @ 12:42pm CDT

I had a few galleries completely downloaded, but not sure which ones (but only G1 and Masterpieces) and I have to check at home... If I have I'll contact you.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807956)
Posted by Seibertron on October 9th, 2008 @ 12:49pm CDT

Skowl wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Skowl wrote:I've got most of these from the TF Movie:

Dreadwing (Deluxe)
Bumblebee (Concept Camaro)
Arcee (Deluxe)
Brawl (Leader class)

I'll email them to you when I get home from work tonight.

Please tell me you have the full galleries That would be truly awesome!

I don't have the full galleries, but I do have a large number of the pics.

Hopefully between the files you have and the files other people have, I can rebuild the full galleries. If you can send me what you've got, I'll begin work on restoring those missing galleries.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (807997)
Posted by dragons on October 9th, 2008 @ 1:21pm CDT

sorry cant help much i just looking at the pictures and camopare which would be better repaints or teh orignals that sucks that you loas tthem

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (808077)
Posted by capellamusic on October 9th, 2008 @ 2:42pm CDT

Check the message I've sent, I have 3 of those galleries in medium size. They're Botcon 2007 Thrust, G1 Ramjet and Music Label Spark Blue Soundwave.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (808094)
Posted by Seibertron on October 9th, 2008 @ 2:49pm CDT

capellamusic wrote:Check the message I've sent, I have 3 of those galleries in medium size. They're Botcon 2007 Thrust, G1 Ramjet and Music Label Spark Blue Soundwave.

They're the 500 pixel wide images? If so ... that won't help. I need to get the 750+ pixel wide images (the large ones). Thank you for the offer though, capellamusic.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (808105)
Posted by capellamusic on October 9th, 2008 @ 3:02pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:
capellamusic wrote:Check the message I've sent, I have 3 of those galleries in medium size. They're Botcon 2007 Thrust, G1 Ramjet and Music Label Spark Blue Soundwave.

They're the 500 pixel wide images? If so ... that won't help. I need to get the 750+ pixel wide images (the large ones). Thank you for the offer though, capellamusic.

Yes, they are... I never download the large ones because these are big enough for me.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (808259)
Posted by First-Aid on October 9th, 2008 @ 5:50pm CDT

I have a few of those figs if you want to retake the pics. Since I'm in Rockford, I'm only 80 minutes from you and wouldn't mind running in with the figs. Besides, I've been craving some Lou Malmotti's lately :-)

I've got Bumblebee (concept) Brawl (Leader) Dreadwing, Arcee, and the Menasor Titanium, if that helps.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (808677)
Posted by Seibertron on October 9th, 2008 @ 11:28pm CDT

First-Aid wrote:I have a few of those figs if you want to retake the pics. Since I'm in Rockford, I'm only 80 minutes from you and wouldn't mind running in with the figs. Besides, I've been craving some Lou Malmotti's lately

I've got Bumblebee (concept) Brawl (Leader) Dreadwing, Arcee, and the Menasor Titanium, if that helps.

I've got all of the figures ... just missing the pics that I spent many hours working on. It takes about two to three hours start to finish to do each gallery.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (808908)
Posted by Skowl on October 10th, 2008 @ 8:45am CDT

Hopefully, I'll be able to send you my pics before the end of the day.

It sucks that you lost your photos of the un-released Ramulus figure. How will you ever replace those?!

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (808954)
Posted by Seibertron on October 10th, 2008 @ 9:17am CDT

Skowl wrote:Hopefully, I'll be able to send you my pics before the end of the day.

It sucks that you lost your photos of the un-released Ramulus figure. How will you ever replace those?!

The good news is that I have most of the original photos (i.e. NOT the versions that end up on the site) except for the FAB galleries that I posted last summer. However, some of the files within that list of 43 galleries became corrupted when my hard drive went bad last October which means I'll have to reshoot some of those photos. But I really don't want to go through all of those and re-optimize them, adjust colors, watermark them, etc.

What I'm missing are the versions of the files that ended up on the site. It would be much easier to just upload them all again if someone has those photos saved but if not, I'll have to go through all of those photos again which will take some time.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (809076)
Posted by metalformer on October 10th, 2008 @ 11:32am CDT

Seibertron wrote:The server, which is hosted by a company called ThePlanet in Houston, crashed the same weekend that I was dealing with the massive flooding in Chicago last month. Talk about when it rains it pours! Let's just say that was not one of my favorite weekends last month.

I know how upset you must be! I remember an ocassion when I had a crash while I was downloading hi-res pics of the Powermaster Decepticons to make a CD-R devoted to Transformers toys pictures (the irony)! :-x

That's why I do backups of all the things I have on the PC!

Let me see how can I help as I have several of the galleries you're missing. But I need to know how do you want me to send you the images: via email or one of those online file storage services (i.e. Rapidshare).

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (809085)
Posted by Seibertron on October 10th, 2008 @ 11:37am CDT

metalformer wrote:
Seibertron wrote:The server, which is hosted by a company called ThePlanet in Houston, crashed the same weekend that I was dealing with the massive flooding in Chicago last month. Talk about when it rains it pours! Let's just say that was not one of my favorite weekends last month.

I know how upset you must be! I remember an ocassion when I had a crash while I was downloading hi-res pics of the Powermaster Decepticons to make a CD-R devoted to Transformers toys pictures (the irony)! That's why I do backups of all the things I have on the PC!

Let me see how can I help as I have several of the galleries you're missing. But I need to know how do you want me to send you the images: via email or one of those online file storage services (i.e. Rapidshare).

Sending you an email

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (809577)
Posted by Seibertron on October 10th, 2008 @ 7:52pm CDT

Thanks to MetalFormer ... we've got the Botcon 2007 Springer gallery back online. 1 down, 42 to go

http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery. ... =0&start=0

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (809682)
Posted by Antron on October 10th, 2008 @ 9:56pm CDT

I have YOUR Arcee deluxe movie set. I dl YOUR pics for every tf i own. (for purley archival reasons, less handling) this is the only one on the list I have.

where should I send them?

-Antron

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (809709)
Posted by Seibertron on October 10th, 2008 @ 10:27pm CDT

Antron wrote:I have YOUR Arcee deluxe movie set. I dl YOUR pics for every tf i own. (for purley archival reasons, less handling) this is the only one on the list I have.

where should I send them?

-Antron

If they are the full size images (800 pixels wide), please send the images in a zip file to seibertron@gmail.com. Thank you for your help, Antron. I really appreciate it!

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (811341)
Posted by Seibertron on October 13th, 2008 @ 9:15am CDT

I updated the list to remove Botcon 2007 Springer and include Nike Convoy and Nike Megatron.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (811580)
Posted by Seibertron on October 13th, 2008 @ 12:50pm CDT

The good news is that I have most of the original files. The bad news is that some of the files are corrupt. The other bad news is that I will need to reoptimize these files, adjust the contrast on all of them, resize them, rewatermark them and then create the medium and thumbnail sized images again. It is a process that will prevent these images from being added again any time soon because there's 44 missing galleries. Plus, I'll either need to reshoot the corrupt files, restore them from backups that users might have or simply delete them from the archives. It's not the world's worst case scenario but it's still a giant pain in the ass.

Thumbnail view of unprocessed Ramulus pictures with a couple of corrupts:

http://www.seibertron.com/images/misc/c ... ges001.jpg

Thumbnail view of unprocessed Thundercracker pictures with a couple of corrupts:

http://www.seibertron.com/images/misc/c ... ges002.jpg

Example of corrupt image:

http://www.seibertron.com/images/misc/c ... ges003.jpg

Example of a full sized unprocessed image (no color adjustments, no watermark, etc):

http://www.seibertron.com/images/misc/c ... ges004.jpg

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (812678)
Posted by Seibertron on October 14th, 2008 @ 3:42pm CDT

MetalFormer has helped restore the white Soundwave from the Music Label line:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... wave/1347/

Thank you MetalFormer!

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (813060)
Posted by metalformer on October 14th, 2008 @ 11:35pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:Thank you MetalFormer!

You're welcomed! :grin:

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (813304)
Posted by Seibertron on October 15th, 2008 @ 9:29am CDT

Thanks to Antron, we now have the Movie Arcee and Dreadwing galleries restored. Thank you again, Antron.

Arcee
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery. ... =0&start=0

Dreadwing
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery. ... =0&start=0

I have also updated the list accordingly.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (813378)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on October 15th, 2008 @ 11:38am CDT

It looks like there's a couple of images missing frm the Arcee and Dreadwing galleries.

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (814354)
Posted by Countmall on October 16th, 2008 @ 2:00pm CDT

I don't save the galleries, but I can provide you with images of the TF:Animated milk carts and a Lockdown with a poncho I made. :-?

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (816731)
Posted by leader magnus prime on October 19th, 2008 @ 12:54pm CDT

theres more than that missing what about armada optimus prime original version

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (816840)
Posted by Seibertron on October 19th, 2008 @ 2:06pm CDT

bumblerumblev2 wrote:theres more than that missing what about armada optimus prime original version

This has been fixed:

Regular Optimus Prime:
http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery. ... =0&start=0

Super Optimus Prime:
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... prime/384/

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (819206)
Posted by leader magnus prime on October 21st, 2008 @ 9:53pm CDT

thanks also alternators rodimus

Re: Can you help with missing gallery images? (819290)
Posted by raistlyn on October 22nd, 2008 @ 2:00am CDT

i have images from ur old gallery though they are not complete were can i send it?

Soundwave (Spark Blue) - Music Label
Rodimus - Transformers: Alternators
Cannon Blast Ironhide (Fast Action Battler)
Alpha Trion