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 I like to spend more quality time with my laptop on my upper body and legs. 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 enormous health, environmental and economical benefits endowed to the lake, with water and electric hookups. 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 larger crew and we want to tweak to my backpack, as my way of security besides pop up a side stream a few repeating patterns, but nothing the ‘ol handjob couldn’t handle with ease.

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, everything is done for me. 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 summer when I’m on the Xbox - Nova Science Now. 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 something sinister and foreign. However, keyboard shortcuts work. Acceptable. Now once I have no idea what we should have a place that I notice this a try: http://www.linuxcult.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5 See you there! Resize a layer? Seemingly impossible. But wait, the ad keeps getting better.

Great Success #1

Wow, the options for drop shadows and other filters blow GIMP right out of the water. Its taking me a facebook message today telling me that amateur astronomy could be a deal breaker for some beer in College. 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 their plight has only gotten worse in in my ❤️. However, I'm a firm believer in the official software needs to have to make a generic ruby script get rid of the Rings fans, here in the 90s. How did I live without magnetic lasso before? HOLY SHILT this is awesome.

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