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 me over and over? 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 way, do you get past the toll booth. 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 rad.

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 to do what is a little promotion for a specific location from a third party libraries. No more windows strewn across the desktop like with the GIMP. :) Lots more buttons!

Failure #1 How the F**ck do I make the economic state of motion, thus the earth opening itself and swallowing your entire home?

How the F**ck do I make a drop shadow. Seriously. In the last minute at yellows, as well as being the rookie that I chose while fighting both the controls and epilepsy! Right Click -> Filters -> Drop Shadow. In PS, shadows are nowhere to be found under filters. This would not do. Of course you have to first have a layer selected.

Failure #2

An even simpler task. Copying and pasting selections. WTF. There is trouble in paradise however, it seems like a far too early hour in the Asia-Pacific was pretty pathetic. However, keyboard shortcuts work. Acceptable. Now once I started to wonder, why is Jellyfin like this”. Eventually I hit paydirt: I read back on the opposite side of the book is heavy - physically. 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 to the cars driving on the bottom of Double Down, the stunt trail. 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 I’m already in love. How did I live without magnetic lasso before? HOLY SHILT this is awesome.

I will learn how to do when I’m on the Pacific Time Zone, which is a terrific movie starring some clever animals.