Bob Ross Painting Tagging - Call For Arms - TwoInchBrush

Bob Ross Painting Tagging - Call For Arms

Sunnylady

DaveJ I think it is great idea, to have option to add better screenshot of the Bob,s painting if the current one is partial. Because anyway we will be scrolling through the video to identify if there are extra things. Taking screenshot and trimming it will not add much time and effort.

Felix

These partial shots were the best one I could get from the YouTube videos. Sometimes they aren't showing the full painting at the end, so it's either an unfinished shot or a partial one.

Voy Kay

Felix I agree there. I watched so many episodes already and it happens frequently that the entire painting isn't shown.
With the end credits, the painting shown can even differ somewhat from what Bob actually painted. Then they took another version of his three painted creations per episode.

dracula

Felix I don't know if there's a copyright dimension to this, but we could photograph the versions from the books in cases where a complete version was not available on the TV program.

Dellajoy

Felix thank you so much for all the work you put into this site. I love being a member and love that there are other Bob fans who I can learn tips and tricks from. I am a huge BR fan myself and fairly new to painting so I'm really enjoying this new experience!

Felix

Dellajoy thank you for the kind words! 😊

BStonebridge I've taken a few days off work (my real job, not working on this website 😉) and plan to finish the feature this week or on the weekend. Since Vienna is in total lockdown there isn't anything else to do, so (hopefully) no distractions

BStonebridge

Hi Felix, Is the picture tagging still in development? No rush because when it is done it will be the best addition to this web site, thanks to you......

Ian_Adkins

LJMpaintings I'm always interested in Bill Alexander compositions, but he's pretty obscure and not a lot of his TV work is readily accessible. My suspicion is some of his episodes were taped over, as was common in the '60s into the '70s. I've e-mailed both KOCE and Alexander Art and never got a reply. Although Alexander Art always takes my money. 😁

Felix

The programming is done, I only need to add the different categories. This is what I came up with:

Anything I missed? Or something that could be removed?

Voy Kay

Felix Just some very quick thinking done here. You might wanna add 'boat' (man-made), 'animal' (special), 'snowfield' (landscape), mill (man-made), house (an-made), cypress (vegetation), ...
Does 'stream' also include 'rapids'?

Colin Hudson

Hi Felix - the only bit of clarification I would like is about the trees. Evergreen are in leaf all year round. Deciduous trees lose their leaves in winter. Pictures painted in a summer time will show all trees in leaf. Would deciduous trees in leaf be classed as evergreen? Minor detail I know, sorry

Felix

@Colin Hudson#1589 Thanks Colin. I think "conifer tree" is a better word for what I mean.

Ian_Adkins

Felix Conifer is right, Bob uses "evergreen" whenever he means a pine tree, though there are many evergreen species not remotely related to pines.

Now, there are a few ambiguous trees. I'm specifically thinking of the whimsical spindly trees with leaves or needles that spray up. I tend to think of them as some sort of redwood or cedar, but I don't recall if Bob ever names the one or other variety.

Felix

@Voy Kay#1592 thanks! A stream is everything smaller than a river. So everything that gets painted with individual strokes I'd say

JoJoSunshine

Might be an idea to add "farm" to the landscape category. Just my two cents worth. Hope it helps!

BStonebridge

i think it is great, if you cant find what you are looking for you should be doing something else!
question, once users are able to populate the db with your options are you preventing the updating of the db if 2 users are both working on the same painting? as usual you are doing a great job.

Felix

BStonebridge Thanks!

At first, I will just collect suggestions from different users and consolidate them in the next step. I'll most likely go through all of the paintings by hand then, automatically preselect the most suggested tags and finalize the selection

Felix

The tagging page is now back online.

As always, if you have any suggestions or problems feel free to post them here. Thanks to everyone for helping out! 🙂

More features like tagging specific paintings, challenge badges and such are coming soon. (Or a little bit later, depending on the weather 😉 )

BStonebridge

how do you get the feature to work, where is the launch point to get started??

Felix

BStonebridge For anyone else wondering, here's the link to the tagging page: https://www.twoinchbrush.com/tagsuggestions

Thanks for helping out!

BStonebridge

i think i got it, see the tag instructions, appears you are controlling what painting pops up, good idea, great job as usual