Hucklebee

If she used adobe suite for so many years, it would currently be agony to try and switch. It will take months, maybe even years to unlearn and relearn stuff properly.

Unless she only uses it for some simple cropping or something. Maybe you can add what kind of tools she actually uses?

Huh, never noticed that. Probably always thought that was just part of the program/files needed.

Thanks! Hmm, never thought of looking at 7zip’s settings to see if it can autodelete/not unpack that stuff. I’ll see if I can find such a setting!

Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?

I like that RTFM can also stand for Read The Fucking Manpage.

It goes to the question “geek?” Which then can be answered as “hobbyist” or “yes”, but the half circle makes it weird. That’s how I read it, but if you choose hobbyist you indeed get into an argument of “WHAT AM I?”

Edit: oh, the yes and no are UNDER the question if you’ve used Linux. The No on the left comes from another branch. Pfff, just woke up, now I even see you said exactly that. I need coffee…

I kinda lowkey wish there was a signature option so that we could proudly put our early 2000 forum signature banners on display.

Don’t know the game, haven’t played it. But just use one of your 5 alternative emails from yesteryear to get into the discord.

I really, REALLY hope canva won’t screw up affinity.

I always wondered if I could contribute/volunteer to a FOSS somehow with some UIX stuff, but I don’t even know where to start. Would you just draw a concept ui for the team to work out or something?

Not that I’m great at it, but man, we gotta start somewhere, right?

Yes exactly. I used Gimp extensively (i think 2.8?) back in the day, and especially text was a pain to work with. If you rotated or resized text, you couldn’t change what the text said anymore.

Another example is making a layer grayscale. In gimp it would make the whole layer grayscale without any way to revert it. In Photoshop it sort of is like an extra “layer” on top of your colored layer that you can turn on and off, making it “non-destructive”

Nowadays I mainly use Illustrator for work, so I could indeed probably give Inscape a good try. But sometimes you just need to work with pixels and gimps destructive workflow is just a dealbreaker for me. Still, it’s impressive that the team got it so far, and I hope one day it will do a Blender and become the powehouse it deserves to be.

The biggest revelation for me when I switched to Photoshop for work about 4 years ago is that non-destructive editing is sooooo much nicer.

I always had dozens of “backup” layers in my years with Gimp just in case I messed something up. I was always cautious about the order in which you had to do things. I was amazed with photoshop at the fact that you could edit text after warping, gradient coloring and outlining it. Saved so much hassle.

I read non-destructive is in the pipelines for Gimp, and that would finally make it start become a viable alternative again.

I read the first part in the singing voice of Chop Suey

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Slightly unrelated, but one of my recommendations would be to buy a VPN for a month and download all the movies instead of ripping DVDs. Unless you care about the extras of course.

I’ve recently digitized my DVD collection with MakeMKV(best tool for this) and boy is it hit and miss quality wise. Some are very watchable on a 1080p tv, while others look like a pixel mess. And I’m not that much of a purist when it comes to quality. But DVD is 480p (which is watchable) but when the movie is made from a VHS copy (which happened sometimes back then) it is… an unpleasant watching experience

Also, mpeg2(which dvds are encoded in) are huge filesize wise for what quality they offer. AND mpeg2 is not supported by stuff like a chromecast…so not great.

I, as a European, had double trouble: our PAL dvd movies actually run slightly faster than American dvd’s, so most subs found online simply won’t synchronize. So that meant ripping the subs, converting them to a sensible format, finding all the spelling mistakes from converting… A pain.

If I’d do it over again, I’d pay 5 bucks for a VPN and download some bluray rips. Even stuff that is deemed low quality by the pirate community (YIFY rips) are better AND 1/4th the size than your DVD rips will ever be.

You could go the ISO route, which preserves the menus. You can open ISO files with Kodi.

Or rip your dvds if you want to make sure it’s all legal. You do you 😜