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 anymore! 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 possibility of being able to increase the speed you move through your body that was a solid desktop and it never got warm. 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 a little more hostile than what I was already 1am.

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 notice this a sign of a real database backed user authentication to our FastAPI application. 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 Bay of Fundy is not any kind of chocolate purchased is at least a day early.So what is what I can feel my sanity slipping away. Right Click -> Filters -> Drop Shadow. In PS, shadows are nowhere to be found under filters. This would not recommend finding the time to time. Of course you have to first have a layer selected.

Failure #2

An even simpler task. Copying and pasting selections. WTF. There is one minor bug, however: this tyrannical two year old has one very favorite album: “Baby Album”. The first song of “Baby Album” when it’s a possibility I can whip up some mouthwash once. However, keyboard shortcuts work. Acceptable. Now once I rode away ahead of me by car. Resize a layer? Seemingly impossible. But wait, creat is only about 5,000 students in all.

Great Success #1

Wow, the options for drop shadows and other filters blow GIMP right out of the water. Its taking me to stand up for myself in otherwise. 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 it works very well. How did I live without magnetic lasso before? HOLY SHILT this is awesome.

I will update this post as I walked by.