That post alone inspires an insatiable urge to gluttony and gustatory greed that is otherwise utterly inexplicable.
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That post alone inspires an insatiable urge to gluttony and gustatory greed that is otherwise utterly inexplicable.
Silver Efex Pro is usually my B&W software of choice. Or LR of course.
Nik suffered under Google. I tried out the 30 day trial recently and found it to be brilliant and much more responsive. 150 Euros is a bit steep, though. I used the old Nik to do some quality black and white blowups of the kids I took. I used to do my fair bit of hobbyist photo restoration years ago. I restored a lot of our family albums dating back a century and then some. A lot of it survived well to be honest. It took a few months to fix some photos that'd altered due to I suppose acidic paper that blemished the photos.
There was this really cool plugin for Photoshop or Light Room I came across a while back and always forget the name of. It uses AI to enlarge photos with some clever arithmetic and make it look natural. Though if we're being honest, if it's not something serious and I'm dilly-dallying around, Serif's software is class. I find their designer really simple to use over Illustrator. It's really simple to grab some of the kids favorite toys or "drawings" and make them into a cartoon-ish figure and send it off to be made into a sticker or framed poster.
I've been using Adobe's products from a pure pro-hobbyist point of view ever since it became available on Windows. More than 20 years, I think, and I still learn something new. I purchased CS6 suite on sale and that's enough for me.
Thankfully it works on Windows 10, too. Even though I'm not happy about being forced to move over to Windows 10 in the new year. It requires some customization to resemble Windows 7.
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You'll want third party software to have access to those nice film quality presets and whatnot. I think most of the apps run up to $10 which isn't much. 1998 Cam is wonderful, especially when you unlock it through an in-app purchase. I had a few photos printed that I took with it and I couldn't see much of a difference between them and photos I'd printed from 35 mm film on a cheap Kodak 20 years ago.
Experiencing a migraine trying to read an illiterate twit's posts.
Commiserations on the migraine; hydration, (as in plenty of fluids), a dark room, no noise or light, and rest or bedrest are the common remedies suggested for dealing with this condition (and I have had migraines).
However, I will admit that my curiosity is piqued.
Why subject yourself to that degree of agony?
And, given that there are a plethora of illiterate posts to choose from, one wonders whether there is a sublime degree of illiteracy that triggers a migraine.
1) As @Scepticalscribe prescribed
2) Never read twitter (or social media in general) when experiencing a migraine...
It was a post on this site. These days PRSI tends to uplift my mood. Knowing that somewhere out there, someone's having a massive freak out over nothing or they get hot and bothered to irrational levels and I'm left wondering if they've been gingered, to borrow from a post I made yesterday. I do enjoy reading a good freak-out by my fellow man who feels emasculated by some woman.
Oh to be a dictator and have numpties thrown off a cliffside.
It's the drawback of the internet; now we can see how crazy the world actually is.
Popped into a site I don't post on much anymore. Replied to a thread and someone replied with an essay of something both on topic and off topic and about totem poles of who's where in the world and whatever. I wish I hadn't posted my few words as a result. On the other hand, the person who replied to me was always someone I didn't like much going back to '06, and once or twice considered they were a crack addict who were land developers.
They once made a post about the supposed sex lives of some Aussie band
Edit: INXS.
Edit 2: By "once made a post" I mean a multi post essay.
What can I say? I'm just wracking my brain, trying to think of provocative shows to play for three-year-olds.
Please DM me the user's name. EDIT: Doesn't sounds like it's a MR thing.
On my mind: incoming heat wave and a slow-roller at that. Tonight's the last night for below-70ºF overnight temps for the rest of the week. Friday daytime high forecast is 90ºF, my comfort zone for summer is 60-70ºF days, 45-55 overnight. That's why I only heat my house to 65ºF max in winter. Why should it be hotter inside in winter than outside on the average summer day?
Oh well, time to suck it up and figure on spending lunchtime floating in the tub with a beach read by around Thursday. The luxury of indoor running water is so far still available. Wonder when USA residents should start reading up on what denizens of hot countries without electricity or unrationed water do in order to stay cool... past die of the heat.
Oh well, time to suck it up and figure on spending lunchtime floating in the tub with a beach read by around Thursday. The luxury of indoor running water is so far still available. Wonder when USA residents should start reading up on what denizens of hot countries without electricity or unrationed water do in order to stay cool... past die of the heat.
Sorry I’ll try and post less!
[doublepost=1563210330][/doublepost]Tired today. But as I’m off Thursday and Friday, I suppose today is really my Wednesday if you follow.
Anyway glad it’s a short week.
I used to love a work week that might end on a Wednesday or Thursday for whatever reason. It felt like there were multiple Fridays in there, with still that safety valve of "the weekend" yet to come. The extra pre-weekend days were bliss and felt like stolen time. Somehow even more relaxing than a week of vacation. They were without that insidious pressure of "well this is my VACATION so must do something special with it." Enjoy!
Absolutely agree; I used to feel the same way with a half day on Friday when I was at school, and when I was teaching, nobody (neither students nor staff) wanted to have to attend Friday afternoon classes.
MacOS is so weird; if a window doesn't have focus, it'll still acknowledge mouse events but not keyboard events. This means that if you want to drag a file into a window that you're not already in while holding down a modifier key, it'll ignore the modifier key. Super unhelpful on Slack where I'm trying to upload animations. Argh…
I have a different issue with Mojave. I used to have better luck dragging a bunch of files from desktop or some folder onto a closed folder in some other window than I do with Mojave. I often end up having to drag the stuff into the desired window and then onto the desired folder in that window. Not sure if it's the OS itself or its newer file system or a drive-induced lag. I still have a spinner internal drive on the laptop which is fairly lethal with Mojave... open any not too recently used folder with quite a few files in it and that window then looks empty for at least a few seconds. Can't try it on my spare machine with an SSD because that one can't adopt Mojave.
What's on my mind is notice of a UPS delivery just made to my deck. It's so hot out there right now I don't want to go open the kitchen door to fetch it. But then if I don't go get it, whatever is in it will cook in the sun for a couple more hours. I think it's jeans. Nice. New garments have excess dye and formaldehyde and stuff, and the wrap is plastic... a biochem lab cooking on the porch! I guess I'll go get it before the package gets all creative with itself and its contents.
What's on my mind is notice of a UPS delivery just made to my deck. It's so hot out there right now I don't want to go open the kitchen door to fetch it. But then if I don't go get it, whatever is in it will cook in the sun for a couple more hours. I think it's jeans. Nice. New garments have excess dye and formaldehyde and stuff, and the wrap is plastic... a biochem lab cooking on the porch! I guess I'll go get it before the package gets all creative with itself and its contents.
Finally finished a series of motion graphics.
It would've been easier, but I did it procedurally. Now if I want to change the number, I won't have to hand animate the mask.
I was about to give up and hand animate, but I found an effect that blurs everything from a central point, so if I move that point far enough away, it blurs everything from the left edge of the number to the right edge of the frame. Then I use that blurred number as a mask for the animation below, and it looks like the text/icon are flying outta the number while it rotates around its y-axis.
I'm stuck on High Sierra until I finally break down and start paying for Adobe CC. As it stands, I'm milking CS6 for all it's worth.
It would've been easier, but I did it procedurally. Now if I want to change the number, I won't have to hand animate the mask.
I was about to give up and hand animate, but I found an effect that blurs everything from a central point, so if I move that point far enough away, it blurs everything from the left edge of the number to the right edge of the frame. Then I use that blurred number as a mask for the animation below, and it looks like the text/icon are flying outta the number while it rotates around its y-axis.
Like, do you try to drag the files into a folder, but when you release, they just appear in the enclosing folder of the target folder, and then you drag them from there into the target folder? It sounds like a pain in the ass.
I'm stuck on High Sierra until I finally break down and start paying for Adobe CC. As it stands, I'm milking CS6 for all it's worth.
Well until last night I was supposed to be off all week, but I cancelled Monday to Wednesday. Too much to do in the office.
Finally finished a series of motion graphics.
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It would've been easier, but I did it procedurally. Now if I want to change the number, I won't have to hand animate the mask.
I was about to give up and hand animate, but I found an effect that blurs everything from a central point, so if I move that point far enough away, it blurs everything from the left edge of the number to the right edge of the frame. Then I use that blurred number as a mask for the animation below, and it looks like the text/icon are flying outta the number while it rotates around its y-axis.
Like, do you try to drag the files into a folder, but when you release, they just appear in the enclosing folder of the target folder, and then you drag them from there into the target folder? It sounds like a pain in the ass.
I'm stuck on High Sierra until I finally break down and start paying for Adobe CC. As it stands, I'm milking CS6 for all it's worth.
I have no idea what it is you do, but have you considered Fusion or Motion 5 as alternatives to AE?
My video editing is very much on the prosumer side but I loved the Resolve Studio 16 beta and plan to purchase a license once I update my home workstation. It blows Premiere out of the water in terms of features and performance. It also doesn't crash at the strangest of times.
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I know you're kidding, but I like your posts. It shouldn't be too difficult to figure out the spaz I'm talking about.Sorry I’ll try and post less!
[doublepost=1563210330][/doublepost]Tired today. But as I’m off Thursday and Friday, I suppose today is really my Wednesday if you follow.
Anyway glad it’s a short week.
In PRSI? Doubtful that it was me. But I do have a short spaz fuse. Just ask...like anyone.
No. It's no one I reply to on any regular basis. Which should rule out most of you.
I can’t believe how good the free version of davinci resolve is. Well for an amateur like me.
I’m always kidding! It’s my natural state. Just hit the ignore button and move on. Life’s too short.
The old version? Yeah, it's phenomenal. The price is brilliant, too, for the new one. I don't recall what the standalone price for Premiere was if it was ever standalone. By the end I was making large jumps in PS versions because the price was pretty high by then. The funny thing is that the anti-piracy feature of CC is bunk. I sometimes go deep into discussion boards out of curiosity and the control servers used to authenticate a subscription are easily tricked into letting pirated software run and get updates. It's more money for Adobe, and the reality of it all is that Adobe knows they're the defacto standard. They bank on young minds still in school pirating their software and becoming addicted to it.
Avid's Composer First is also nice to use. Very helpful for young editors wanting to get into the Hollywood/studio market. Actually, a lot of Avid's product line is brilliant. Their asset trackers are great from what I've heard when I've asked around some studio heads I know.
I really like the Affinity products, too. Not as good as Adobe's, but it's getting there. Hopefully they don't sell out to Adobe or another company that's actually Adobe but posting as a benign company.