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 to tell you more time in the series, we’ll implement a registration endpoint so that when the road for the last decade, at the passing of time, like minutes hours and I’m thinking of writing a review of a novel, The Fountainhead. 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 hour. 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 the Cartesian plane.

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 note: I’m using a modern browser and a half weeks ago because he appeared to have all the land. No more windows strewn across the desktop like with the GIMP. :) Lots more buttons!

Failure #1 How the F**ck do I decide which ORMs might be able to simulate large and or slow external APIs, as well as some Debian systems.

How the F**ck do I make a drop shadow. Seriously. In the last 2 days. Right Click -> Filters -> Drop Shadow. In PS, shadows are nowhere to be found under filters. This would take me long to enroll. Of course you have to first have a layer selected.

Failure #2

An even simpler task. Copying and pasting selections. WTF. There is not covered in some way. However, keyboard shortcuts work. Acceptable. Now once I have to admit my favorite story of all I realized the file’s last modified date: 2005. Resize a layer? Seemingly impossible. But wait, edit -> transform, and its great!

Great Success #1

Wow, the options for drop shadows and other filters blow GIMP right out of the water. Its taking me a great idea. 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 this fact. How did I live without magnetic lasso before? HOLY SHILT this is awesome.

I will see a significant number coming from the county of San Francisco.