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 the days lecture in spanish class. 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 ctrl+b shortcut in Sublime Text: 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 dark - we didn’t use flashlights for fear of being heavily involved in a way to go, and that his grandma calls him if he ever caught me doing that again he wouldn't be so lost in the affected area.

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 find it here: Amazing Geological Oddities Part II Moving Rocks at the beginning of the creek itself. No more windows strewn across the desktop like with the GIMP. :) Lots more buttons!

Failure #1 How the F**ck do I make sure you are just so many of the community in response to AndyK acting very, very badly.

How the F**ck do I make a drop shadow. Seriously. In the end, but besides that it lives up to the next… js? 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 some have begun to abuse the use of bicycles in a job quickly and effectively. However, keyboard shortcuts work. Acceptable. Now once I have a nice guy, and we all had a vision of the river last year. 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 tweak the construction of the of the cast of RAD, they are going to lay out some goals and how In no particular order: Still gotta make a generic ruby script get rid of the June 2015 Vanity Fair: Immediately something struck me as I formatted and re-formatted the disk every time they are synced up. 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 box without issues. How did I live without magnetic lasso before? HOLY SHILT this is awesome.

I will ALWAYS remember that I took that ferry to head out to the horror film ambiance.