UV reactive things

barclay03 · 15 Oct 2006 at 16:36

ok, when looking at come peoples cases or even on dfi websites etc, they show pics like...

BUT... ive never had any come out as virbant as that, and i have 3 UV cathodes in there... is there something im missing? lol

Adam Senior · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:15

photoshoped? just an idea./

nick_lerwill · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:26

whatever is done it looks class

CrazyMonkey · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:36

The IDE cables arent photoshoped my friends are that bright, the ram and pci slots, hmm dunno about them but wow the are bright

perhaps painted in UVreactive paint even though they are already UV perhaps another coat on them?

Rob43 · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:05

Depends on what kind of cathodes you use,make sure you get some decent blacklight ones

Rob

nick_lerwill · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:25

Rob43 said:
Depends on what kind of cathodes you use,make sure you get some decent blacklight ones

Rob

from where?

barclay03 · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:40

the UV ones i have are blacklight ones, and also have 2 blue ones, but i dont always have the blue ones switched on

nick_lerwill · 15 Oct 2006 at 18:56

got pics?

barclay03 · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:09

best i can do with the cam ive got (ignore the puny lil amd fan thats still on there... lol)

cables etc are a bit brighter in real life, jus the actual lights messing with the picture

gt_junkie · 16 Oct 2006 at 15:36

barclay03 said:

Not much of a PC without a processor, memory or a graphics card!!!

gt

gurusan · 16 Oct 2006 at 15:38

The reason everything is so bright is because there's no hardware blocking the light.

I have 2 in my case and not everything glows equally....I want 2 more but really have my eye on a new case first.

binaryknight · 16 Oct 2006 at 15:53

if thats a pic from a manufacturers site im also gonna be guessing that the picture was taken by a dslr and tripod on a resonably long exposure to capture a good picture hence making it appear quite vibrant and more true to the way your eyes would see it

barclay03 · 16 Oct 2006 at 16:28

yea i was thinking itd prob just be a longer exposure, but thought id ask jus incase as ive seen some more..'amatuer'... rigs lookin roughly the same lol think its partially to do witht he led fans ive got in there and the psu too, adds a bit of light so things dont stand out as much... but if i happen to be wearin a white tshirt or anythin it glows like mad lol

Well Splattered · 16 Oct 2006 at 17:06

binaryknight said:
if thats a pic from a manufacturers site im also gonna be guessing that the picture was taken by a dslr and tripod on a resonably long exposure to capture a good picture hence making it appear quite vibrant and more true to the way your eyes would see it

Agree on this mans comments. The longer the shutter is open, the more light is captured.

I have done a similar shot, with a longer exposure. im trying to find it!

binaryknight · 16 Oct 2006 at 18:00

thats one i took while not the greatest its taken as a jpg and not had any photoshopping bar a crop and resize.

thats just a standard neon type light without uv items.

Day03 · 16 Oct 2006 at 22:53

I would guess it was post-processed in some way to make the colours more vibrant. I've never seen IDE cables glow like that.

barclay03 if you want your UV components to glow better then get rid of any LED fans and cathodes which are not UV. Any extra light appart from UV light will spoil the whole UV effect.