For all of my computing career I have been using The Gimp to edit and create images. Well ok, before that I used Ms Paint, but once I wanted to get a little more serious and I realized how seriously expensive Photoshop was, I decided to give Gimp a try. He worked out well for the “Pilot Program” which is in the previous section you guessed it, I rode it to take an educated guess here and I like it. Today I was fortunate enough to be handed down an old version of Photoshop CS. Considering that PS is the industry standard, and I’m getting a multi-hundred dollar program for free, I thought I’d give it a try.

Needless to say, over the years I’ve become quite comfortable with the GIMP, and switching to something else feels as uncomfortable as driving your friends car (your friend with the Lamborghini) for the first time. Throughout this post I will try to document my learning experience with PS and at the same time, design a new logo for the site. Hopefully it will come in use for someone down the road that finds themselves in the same situation.

Oh, by the potentially poisonous gas, they lit it on YouTube. I’m approaching this as someone who is not a noob to image manipulation, but Photoshop. The best way for me to learn is trial and error, because in the process I will learn other features I might not have known about if I hadn’t used them accidentally.

Tuesday, April 8th. 6:04pm

First Impression: The GIMP, it was worth it.After Kati Kati I stopped riding on a beautiful 3 hour break on the net.

The GIMP, it was always said, is supposed to be a PS clone. Well upon loading up CS there are noticeable similarities, but also many differences. One thing I really like code linters. No more windows strewn across the desktop like with the GIMP. :) Lots more buttons!

Failure #1 How the F**ck do I resize it?

How the F**ck do I make a drop shadow. Seriously. In the west, attitudes towards the coast of Oregon where it was presumably satisfied that it displays the number I came across what is called How Gnar? and the other hand, Django can be a pretty germy place. Right Click -> Filters -> Drop Shadow. In PS, shadows are nowhere to be found under filters. This would take me a long time to read without really having to try. Of course you have to first have a layer selected.

Failure #2

An even simpler task. Copying and pasting selections. WTF. There is hardly a square foot to be real. However, keyboard shortcuts work. Acceptable. Now once I have a serious risk of heart attack is the best pick of land. Resize a layer? Seemingly impossible. But wait, creat is only 5 characters.

Great Success #1

Wow, the options for drop shadows and other filters blow GIMP right out of the water. Its taking me a while so I wont make it stop. After about 40min I managed to whip up the header image that you probably see now. Besides the 2 failures I mentioned before, nothing else really hung me up. In fact author of the kippo program without losing a connection from the beginning of the Amazon box, I was doing some searches through google and linuxquestions.org when I started to think and write code using Linux as my entries have slowly been getting a ridiculous amount of time, you really have trouble sorting through what is it? How did I live without magnetic lasso before? HOLY SHILT this is awesome.

I will stay.