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16 years ago
Oh wow, 5 months and nothing new... this growing record i'm not proud of. -_-
Been spending most of the time learning from scratch how to use Photoshop when I can... taking care of my eye takes higher priority these days. ^^;
Mostly it's looking at other's works (their ink lines) and trying to duplicate the same quality best I can, lots of stroke with brush, resize, repeat with different brush... zzz...
I'm not yet used to the strange softness of the brushes and a lack of directly stroking a path, but i'll learn to adjust.
Though these non-destructive vector masks are looking rather promising. ^_^
Suprisingly weird how despite having 4GB and a quad-core it'll refuse to fully use them, instead it'll use it's scratch disk and one CPU core for the path tool.
That did cause odd slowdown-stalls when playing music at the same time. o.o;
Using the backup HD as the scratch disk, Aero theme for the GPU and telling Winamp to not use CPU3 seems to have fixed it.
Still looking/researching a monitor replacement, can't believe how long and hard it is. >.<
Learning new bad things about them too: Such as TN's are all only 6-bits, and running 4:3 on a 16:9 monitor can supposedly damage them. (eh, not covered by warranty?)
An IPS panel is still my best bet, but since those are still expensive and rare...
Things wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't killed off the reliable CRT, now I know how 8-track lovers feel.
Been spending most of the time learning from scratch how to use Photoshop when I can... taking care of my eye takes higher priority these days. ^^;
Mostly it's looking at other's works (their ink lines) and trying to duplicate the same quality best I can, lots of stroke with brush, resize, repeat with different brush... zzz...
I'm not yet used to the strange softness of the brushes and a lack of directly stroking a path, but i'll learn to adjust.
Though these non-destructive vector masks are looking rather promising. ^_^
Suprisingly weird how despite having 4GB and a quad-core it'll refuse to fully use them, instead it'll use it's scratch disk and one CPU core for the path tool.
That did cause odd slowdown-stalls when playing music at the same time. o.o;
Using the backup HD as the scratch disk, Aero theme for the GPU and telling Winamp to not use CPU3 seems to have fixed it.
Still looking/researching a monitor replacement, can't believe how long and hard it is. >.<
Learning new bad things about them too: Such as TN's are all only 6-bits, and running 4:3 on a 16:9 monitor can supposedly damage them. (eh, not covered by warranty?)
An IPS panel is still my best bet, but since those are still expensive and rare...
Things wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't killed off the reliable CRT, now I know how 8-track lovers feel.
Teehee! Bad student, you must study more to churn out more art. X3
Just recently, I learnt one thing I consider important about photoshop. Instead of relying on it's included default brushes, it's better to make your own and use them. ^^
I did that and now I have a 2 pixel brush actually works beautifully, wish adobe included such brushes from the start to save me all this wasted playing around. -faints from shock- o_o
Plus side of that now is i'm actually using it just like GIMP, minus side is my wonderful lazy holiday is over. -giggles- XD
Oh well... will have to just survive on this fishbowl of a screen while inking/coloring, making my own brushes finally got me working again. ^_^
Why adobe didn't include such easy-to-make brushes from the start is my excuse for the delay. -giggles- :P