The Ink Spot - 2013-06-20 (page 2 of 3)

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4:12 PM

do we have a travel stack?

yes we do!

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Q: Way to map stations for driving trip

I have a convention/vacation scheduled soon and I do have a company gas card. Since it is a company sponsored trip I wanted to map out gas stations for the 16 hour drive. I was curious to know is there a tool that will map all gas stations for Shell or BP? I have been using a mixture of MapQue...

planning driving automobiles

when in doubt.. just ask ;)

interesting question

might be a good idea for an app... @Joonas!!!!

(buys domain)

4:34 PM

sure sucks when things go wrong doesn't it

in threes yes

everything that could go wrong has gone wrong with this latest container coming in for us

and it's making me look like a dummy

how so?

"Hey Matt, your stuff will definitely ship out Wednesday"

meanwhile the container delivery gets pushed back to today for the upteenth time

ugh

this for the screens?

4:38 PM

nah

important stuff :P

stuff that I can't control but people expect me to have control over it

welcome to customer service

sometimes I just want to scream THE PRODUCT WILL GET THERE WHEN IT GETS THERE STOP ASKING ME

until it's in our warehouse there is absolutely nothing I can do to make things get out quicker :(

send them the shipping number and have them call and complain

I wouldn't even know who to call and complain myself :P

US Customs, Complaints department

oh forgot you deal with international

4:42 PM

yeah. We will never make a guaranteed delivery date. Way too many wildcards

some 7yr old china boy couldnt read or write wrote your address wrong and sent to Kansas City

haha no these are containers full of product

i think that while saying it in foreign like in my head

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^^ wow.. tooooooo much bull

4:43 PM

like that

dont feel bad I will be @ work pulling 16 hour shifts for a week... One day off.

:|

goodness me

sounds like a promised delivery date is coming up and it's crunch time?

no.. call out of town and only god at work.. so I need to catch up and get ahead because I am already backed up.. dont wanna drown when I come back to town..

oh right your vacation!

ive been asked if I can be called =/

said no promised.. fishing

man Im going to spend hours mapping this damn gas thing

5:08 PM

@Matt_2.0 What about an app?

app to pinpoint gas stations along a route

I don't have a car so I couldn't care less :)

O_o

I walk everywhere... Or use public transportation...

But I mostly walk..

My workplace is about 1,5km away from my apartment and stores are even closer so...

lunch... what to eat

5:19 PM

Pizza

we cannot live on pizza

no good places around work

Hamburger

nyny pizza yes I can

Man.. Now I really want pizza

5:20 PM

pizza

horrible site...

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Q: How do continue a pattern or style if it is in bitmap form?

I have downloaded some psd templates that I must edit. In this case, I am attempting to continue the red bar across the black area that currently divides it. It is in bitmap form, however (no layer effects I can look at), so I'm wondering what the best way would be to make the red bar look like i...

adobe-photoshop

am I reading this wrong?

why would you not just stretch it out as you would an image gradient on a web page?

oh snap where was I

well I would code it

Most of the pizzeria places in finland are run by hairy Turkish men..

well yeah ideally

but he wants it in PS

cut it out

5:23 PM

Just say how much

damn john

just when I go to answer

oh

you need to call dibs!

dibs for the rest of the answer... lol

he asked it 59 minutes ago!

you had all this time

need more attention

5:28 PM

I'm very cautious answerer... I often end up commenting to mine information and other people answer the question. But it's ok

stop doing that we need answers not comments!

I don't like to answer if i'm just guessing

it's fine if it is an educated guess!

and you are an educated man

so all guesses you make are educated

I'm not very educated actually

does anyone have dibs on this one

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Q: Why am I unable to move pixels after they have been selected?

I've selected the below area in my image. I then switch to the move tool, but when I drag around the selection, the pixels that it had encompassed do not move with it. Would be great to know what I'm doing wrong :) Thank you in advance.

adobe-photoshop selections

@Matt_2.0 you have 10 minutes before I post an answer!

*sets timer*

5:31 PM

I studied to be a model maker

Or builder is a more proper term i guess

That's partially why i'm very interested in getting a makerbot

bam

well done

I wouldn't mind having a cnc machine either, but that's a bit more expensive, materials and all..

added my answer

hey @JohnB if you stretch the image and their is anything within the image it will stretch across and cause issues

5:48 PM

@Matt_2.0 how do you mean?

oh like uh

brain fart...

artifacts!

like artifcats?

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good man

you're right, good point to make. If it were me doing it I'd either use CSS to create the gradient or just recreate it in PS

so, my answer is counter-intuitive to what I would do :P

yep and he accepted yours as the answer... lol

dude on GD told me wrong!!! ggaaawwwwhhh

oh well. It's good to have a bunch of answers showing different ways to do it

now on to figure what to do for lunch

5:55 PM

could your layer be locked? — Matt_2.0 9 mins ago

that is one possibility, the other is that he has a selection tool active and not the Move tool

actually if the layer is locked he would get a pop-up telling him the layer is locked

so my suspicion is that he needs to switch to the move tool

2 hours later…

7:44 PM

What do you do when you find a designer stumbling around in your front yard?

hand them a pantone color chart

nope

what

Hit him again.

well...

got something for you scott

7:47 PM

ah c'mon.. that's downright funny :)

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yeah the MacPro looks silly.. keeps reminding me of a paper towel holder

I'll probably get one though.. sucker that I am

WHY..

the money it costs... well dedicated arent we?

It's a beast of a powercenter

you can build something better for that.

7:48 PM

Way way way more powerful than anything Apple has ever made

Well, there's no price point yet. So that will determine things

no way that will be below 3500

Adn I never buy BRAND NEW. last time I did that it took months to get a good system (the one I have now). So I'll probably wait 6 months for refurbs to show up

below fail

It's a very common misconception that Apple is overprice on full systems. They aren't Building the same power costs the same

I upgrade every 3 years.. time is coming to move to 100+ RAM and ssd.

7:50 PM

I'm already at 32GB RAM and multiple SSDs

RAID 1 or 5?

never felt the need for more RAM.. could go to 128 if I wanted

I've got 2 RAID5+1 set ups

with SSD.. wow thats costly

yeah but if you want for deals it's not horrible

RAM costs WAY more when new systems come out :)

In 06 I spent almost as much on RAM as I did on an 06 MacPro

it's all tax deductions

I think Im going to go VPN on all my stuff just to overkill it

7:52 PM

if I weren't workign freelance full time I could justify it

oh I hate VPN :)

i hope to be freelance soon.. or new company launch

hello hoop can I jump through you for the simplest of tasks?

?

VPN. I've got a client which insists on VPN for everything. It's jsut extra work and it's not like their stuff is a government secret

I mean, I understand VPN for financial data or things of that sort.. but web hosting? really?

I use it for scripting

here you go

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182177

7:54 PM

I've had a month from hell. I've got to hire an assistant.. but I cringe at the notion

nothing like 288gb of ram

ya that can hurt ya

so you have a portfolio site?

yeah but I dont' use GD to priomote anything.. I like being somewhat annonymous :)

oh I see...

My name turns up 3 or 4 pages of Google results... it's embarassing

hold up let me google "Scott"

7:56 PM

*my FULL name :)

My first name will hit THOUSANDS :)

I'd actually prefer Google forget all abotu me.. but oh well

I don't get business from the web

although I do a lot of web work

wow you wrote a book?

uhm.. no... but I've had artwork appear ina few :)

interesting

Anyway.. I prefer to be neither a big fish nor a little fish.. I want to be an invisible fish :)

says the man with the most rep on GD

8:00 PM

yeah but that's only because I've answered the most questions. Nothing special abotu that

lol

Rep really means very little :)

true

there's still mountains of stuff I don't know

nope

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kinda looks like your avatar.. lol

8:02 PM

he appears to do some decent work though. Some sort of derivative, like the Ron Paul image.. straight duplicate of Shepard Fairy's Obama image

Nope :)

SAunders

nah.

Im gonna flip if your someone that I follow.

Is it really that important?

I doubt anyone "follows" me other than the NSA

I've posted maybe 4 tweets in my life

ha ha had to pull the nsa

8:05 PM

my facebook account is there jsut to have the account ... nothing ever posted there

just like to know more people outside GD..

where's your web site?

not up yet.. remodel.. but you can see my behance and some work ive asked advise on here..

@yisela is my go to for advise ;)

where. Yisela has some nice stuff

My site hasn't been touched in 5+years... been too busy

I posted a new logo for an apparel site I want to launch this fall.

actually I posted two logos for two apparel sites and a web design screenshot of a design here

you should come into chat more and see them ;)

8:09 PM

Yah I'm just been really slammed lately. Been working 16-18hr days. No time for chat

And freelancing.. you've got to take the work when it's there

kinda in that same boat but I'll code most of my work

agreed

Today is the first day this month wehen I've had a bit of free time

I could never code and chat :)

I get tunnel vision when coding :)

my wife says I have ADD or whatever.. I work on three things at once

just what Ive been taught

Yeah multitasking is so imperative. But when coding, I have to focus to not get lost in what I was doing. Nothing worse than writing half of a long PHP function, then forgetting where you left off :)

but now thats mostly running a programming, designing or programming and running a program..

ya I do that but im just cleaning files and running a few programs

8:12 PM

ahh

and printing

All good designers are great multi-taskers though

just wait if you ever have kids..

The worst designer I've ever worked with could only ever do one thing at a time and if you interputed her during that thing, she got so frrazzled.

my daughter at 4 already calls me out on the "give me a minute comment"

8:14 PM

Nope never gunna have kids

Too old for them now

thats cool

m happiest time in my life was working from home for a sign/print shop and taking care of my little one.

Need to be younger to enjoy the moments kids offer. I'd hate my kid to deal with a 60 year old when they are hitting their teens :)

ya Im only 30.

Yeha I'm 44

ever done hand painting?

8:16 PM

years ago. Never had the feel for it. I've always been moreof a pen and ink guy

old fashioned poster prints?

not sure :0 liek what?

plating for ink poster prints

oh a bit.. pen & ink then a brush with an ink wash.

yep

8:19 PM

Just always had a better feel for solid tips rather than brushes.

i remember and miss the days a gradient was done with a spray can

scanning fonts for print

Oh yeah.. I loved pulling off gradations with a pen. And did do a brief phase of airbrush experimentation. Probably NOTHING like what you can do though

I had one of the first Pasche air brushes before Iwata hit it really big

I played with a Pasche back in the late 80s :) Loved it, but didn't have the patience for masking and paint cups.

In reality the digital revolution opened up things for me a great deal.. no mess.. but still able to do some things in a similar fashion as traditional mediums

ya but now its 80k for equipment up front

8:24 PM

true :)

I wish..

I think Im gonna re-open my business and run it from home with a few sites

What type of business? Airbrushing? Web hosting?

nah a few print companies again.

ahh print brokering?

running the numbers and my overhead is a lot less

maybe some print brokering but would like an apparel machine or two

I own A LOT of domains

8:28 PM

Apparel would be cool. The new FMBM?

rather than FUBU

bought 13 apparel domains.. all can be ran with the same machine

cool.

just need an investor! dreaming

Hit Shark Tank :)

??

8:30 PM

You don't knwo the show Shark Tank?

abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank

Same as Dragon's Den in the UK

setting up a meeting with score.org to see if my numbers are right and my projection equations are accurate.

wow have you seen that legal document?

Nope. But I'd imagine they want to be certain they or anything anyone connected to them may say is not an issue for them.

ive thought of angelist

gotta get all the sites designed and built first

which is probably no small task :)

yep one man show.. gonna hit a few guys I met locally from a wordpress convention and ask them if they will allow me to sub them some plugin and theme development

8:44 PM

I just had to sit through a seminar on Angel Groups!

huh?

Dunno, you mentioned angelist when talking about funding

I presume that is a site for angel groups

ya I would love to get on there when my design and coding phase is done

what do you need funding for?

equipment presumably

yep.. I have 85k worth but need an additional 70k

8:48 PM

what?!

what the heck have you got!

machines

I assume you mean manufacturing apparel :)

well duh, what kind

no I mean printing

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thats 20K

Ahh so printing apparel.

8:49 PM

do you mean you already have 85k worth of funding or 85k worth of equipment

and other stuff but mostly printing in general

I have 85k worth of shop equipment but I dont have any of the new machines I need

That's a lot of overhead

thats a normal print shop

you are rapidly diminishing the pride I have in my little $500 screen press

but my overhead is WAAAYYYY less because I can run everything from home

in TN our taxes are way different so we can have BIGGER houses for what you pay. that said I have a basement about 1700 sq ft setup.

8:52 PM

I suppose, but there are other issues running from home

all online sales like some companies and bam.. I know

espcially if things take off and you need to hire

basement is setup just like an apartment

Ahh that works then

yep

8:53 PM

My issue with hiring is .. well.. I work at home. I don't want some assistant in my home at all hours ;)

I might hire two people

I need to remodel to have a separate entrance and office

*floats resume out there*

like this sorta

lol

8:55 PM

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nice

wait.. it's TN.. shouldn't there be an old car and a broken couch in the front yard?

ha ha ha

think the term is called mother-in-law suite

yup.. but not like anyone WANTS the mother-in-law actually there

ha ha my wife would hit me for that... thats why it will be a print shop ;)

but thats the idea

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