Folks, Things have been very quiet around here, so I got out of the habit of checking often enough. For this reason, when you leave a note here, please also contact me at

Thank you!

There has been some apparent confusion on some points, so we will make a few things explicit here for everyone's information.

1. you must become a member to have your deviations posted in Digital Tweakers. To join, watch us, and send us a request. We will put your icon in our journal. Please put our icon in your journal or your signature.

2. PLEASE leave favorites and comments on the ORIGINAL deviation. We want our artists to get the credit they deserve.

3. Let's have some variety of things submitted for tweaking. Nearly everything we have gotten has been made in Ultrafractal. There are so many more programs that make tweakable files. Please! If you do submit something in Ultrafractal, please make sure that the formulas and coloring methods you use are readily available.

There is enough news that I'm designating this a "new" journal entry, so you will all be notified. We have a nice starter group of members. Please publicize this group! Thanks!

About our icon: this is made up of small portions of six different tweaks of the same image, the first in our gallery, and should give a visitor some idea of the diversity that can be derived from one fractal image. The original images were made in Ultrafractal, and each used the same formula, with some variation in coloring methods.

Digital Tweakers was set up as a group for people who like to tweak each other's digital art. The purpose is to encourage this tweaking, because it is very good for learning and artistic development. I got the idea from a tweak exchange with

Some of the programs in which people can tweak include those that have files that save a scene for rerendering, such as Ultrafractal, Terragen, Bryce, Vue d'Esprit, Mojoworld, Apophysis, Xenodream (except for lightings), etc.

Some programs that will allow tweaking of photographs or other images through filters include Paint Shop Pro.

Tweaking must always be by mutual agreement. Except for photomanipulation, this requires the exchange of the files that will recreate the deviation in your program. In the case of photographs, both of you will need to grant permission for the deviation to be posted.

To join, send me a note. Be sure and the group. Then place the link for the group in your correspondence or on your home page. Let me know in your note that you have done this.

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This group will publish deviations that are the basis for a tweak exchange, or which have been tweaked, or the images that result. Please, family friendly deviations only (artistic nudity, but nothing beyond that). To submit an image for publication in the group, put the image in your own gallery and then send me a note with the URL. Also include a link to the deviation that was tweaked. I will post it, and give a link back to the original for comments and and to the previous image. Please keep your image size under 300kb. I only have a 28kb modem, and I have to download your image and reupload it (until I find out a different way of doing it, if there is any). If the image is too large for display on a 1280 screen or less, I will resize it before posting here.

An anonymous donor bought us a three month subscription! :!: Thank you so much! If you would like to buy a sponsorship for this group at the end of that time, please let me know. Thank you.

Pat Goltz