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7 hours ago, Gary Charlton said:

Hi my name is Gary, I will be visiting Pattaya for the first time in November with my good pal Alan McReady.

Hopefully I'll get to meet some of you out there.

 

Welcome Gary. You have a good wingman there for sure! 

Very tired today, off for an early kip.

Knowledge is king me thinks. I try to do as much research as possible. Especially when travelling to new places.

Yes there is lots of shite written but usually you can sieve through it to get a good idea of what's true. 

I think that is where forums like this come into their own. So many guys with experience of travel all over the world and willing to help.

Happy days!

Out for a walk in the sun.

Watching the Jonathon Ross show.

How many of the old staff seem to still be there?

Watching the Chase with my mum.

Brekkie at Swampy airport. 

Brunch for 2 while it pissed it down.

36 minutes ago, code_slayer_bkk said:

Looks pretty good !

Was real good. I will go back for sure!

Tacos at Taco Tacos Tex Max

Eating Tacos at Taco Tacos

Just now, Glasseye said:

Dog damn that looks good. Love those omlettes.

Where ?

Will tell ya privately as we drinking beer.

Tonight's dinner with my company  for the night. It's a dry night for elections. A beer in a coffee mug with the over spill in the milk jug. Ya got to love this place.

3 hours ago, code_slayer_bkk said:

Hi

Welcome J. Nice to see ya here.

1 hour ago, alfazulu said:

She was lovely mate.

12 hours ago, john luke said:

 

 

Stewart - It was not my intention to become advasarial.  The photograph which I asked Mr DK to run through his software was always going to be a difficult one to remove the watermark.  It would not have been too difficult to remove it from the area over the sand, however the area of sea and boats would have been difficult.  In fact Mr DK either did not process this one or did not publish his results.

 

As far as the posted pictures, I would say the first photograph of the soup is OK as far as removing the watermark, however it does leave the orange background a little darker.  The watermark on the bacon sandwich photograph has been removed however there are very obvious distortions caused to the photograph.  The removal of the badge from the Secrets Lady wearing the dark jumper is in my view pretty poor as one can see an area of very dark and then dark stripes where the badge was located.  Reomoving the Secrets Logo from the white shirt on the lady is probably the best though it shows evidence of manipulation.  The last two photographs can be seen as clearly manipulated.

 

Thanks for trying anyway Mr DK.  I had wondered just how good the software was,  I dont think it is a case of winning or losing.

 

Thanks.

 

 

LOL

1 minute ago, MrDK said:

Sometimes you win one and sometimes you lose one. 🙂

I am pretty sure John must have missed your post but we will see. Great bit of software me thinks.

23 hours ago, MrDK said:

The image you provided for a watermark removal test is unreasonable because once the mask has been applied there is no donor nearby. Aside from that a low res panoramic image can only be good as a banner on a web page.

Below are some more realistic examples.

For the food images a gray band has been added so any new watermark that may be added will not go where the removed was.

1. Two water marks ... top right (Evil P) and bottom (TH-247)


Gone


2. Two watermarks overlapping … bottom (Evil P & TH-247)


Gone


3. Girl, black shirt with Secrets logo


Logo Gone


4. Girl, white shirt with Secrets logo


Logo Gone


5. Three girls with red and green lanyards.


No more lanyards


6. Cannot show private parts before and after, so I chose a belly button
Girls has belly button.


No more belly button


7 Traditional masking of nipple


InPaint removal of nipple


 

13 hours ago, john luke said:

My money is on Big John.

1 hour ago, john luke said:

Statistically more likely than not.  Old habits die hard.

No response to Lars for doing as requested?

11 hours ago, Al McReady said:

Was good to meet your good self and Terry and to see Stew again, looking forward to meeting Brian at some point.

Always a pleasure mate. See ya Sunday night for a repeat. 

17 minutes ago, Horizondave said:

Good job you didn't like Black Panther then as I wouldn't want to see you with a new Afro hairstyle.....

Laying on my bed wondering where to eat tonight.

3 hours ago, monkey_omelette said:

Nice pictures. Why are they all marked Thailand247 though? I thought you were paid by Secrets to take them?

Think all pics get watermarked as soon as you load them mate.

They could adopt the old Secrets tactic of having a hot girl at the top of the soi on WS holding a big sign. Or sat on a Lambretta lol