I've been thinking about it for... oh, ten years or more, but I finally hit the point in my professional advancement where I really felt like it was the necessary next step.
If getting things shipped out here weren't such a pain in the neck, I'd've probably done it earlier.
I was really unsure when I bought my first graphire.. thought I was wasting $100. But in reality I spent twice as much on an Intuos like 3 monhts later. (this was decades ago)
I'm not on their destination drop-down, so I literally can't give them my address; also they don't ship anything over 3 lbs by any delivery service which can reach me (shipping ground to Guam doesn't really work).
I find that, for example, local tech support experts know a lot more about how to actually fix things than their mainland counterparts usually do, because just ordering a new part isn't as easy--it's expensive and takes a long time, if you can get it at all.
I'm really happy to be able to use my favourite drawing technique (scribbly light/dark building up and down from a midtone foundation) without all the mess of actually using, like, charcoal.
I'm Scott and just joined up with Meta Stack and I invented and patented the worlds only cooling device that uses a miniature air compressor and lithium battery to put out up to 125 p.s.i. you can also inflate car tires etc. I have been working on this project over 10 years and am trying to incor...
When a question is put On Hold users can still cast up or down votes. In very rare cases are these up votes. Most often they are down votes.
Since the question is closed, it seems like "piling on" negativity to allow users to cast down votes when the user already isn't going to get answers.
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It was pretty easy for me to integrate into my Photoshop usage, but Illustrator's giving me a bit more trouble. Mostly, probably, just because I'm more comfortable in Photoshop anyway.
In Photoshop, I have the left buttons as "step forward" and "step back," the right buttons are zoom in and out, and the rocker button on the pen is mapped to right-click (rock up) and pan/scroll (rock down).
@Matt This is what I do for my web files, which are Visual Studio code. I currently have a DLink ShareCenter. They are basically, out of the box, a small Linux server. By installing a couple of things on it I was able to use it as if it would be a regular Linux server.
I installed Subversion on it and now I use it from Visual Studio as a Subversion server. It supports DDNS (and it even came with a free account with dyn.com) so I can use it not only from my studio (aka home) but also remotely (if I get cabin fever or if I need to work from my client's office).
I could use subversion also for my design files, not only for my code, but I have never gotten to do so because I use Dropbox with my colleagues and Dropbox keeps a version of the files already. You could give it a try, as long as you are not afraid of Linux. Lol. Here is a "how to" link (wonkygibbon.co.uk/…)
yeah not sure I'll use that. I need to find a way to just quickly change from like a Yellow Color to a Blue. Maybe for now if I'm only using 2 colors for diagrams I'll just map a button to (X) and make it Foreground/Background
@Matt Do you use SVN on FreeNass or anything like that? The reason I use it is because I could integrate it with Visual Studio so I can check in/out, get previous versions, etc, without having to do it manually
Put your colours as blobs in a locked layer on top of all the other layers. Hit "i" for the eyedropper, hit the blob you want, switch back to your tool of choice.
You can see my blob layer in the second image I linked.
(And a bit of it in the first, with notes jotted next to 'em.)
Give it some time, and try to use your pen for everyday tasks as well as specialised ones.
The more you use your pen instead of your mouse, the more familiar you'll be with it--so put the mouse in a drawer and just use the pen if you can tolerate it at all.
this tablet stuff is so weird right now. Makes my hand hurt. If I look at screen while writing its pretty terrible. If I get in position then look down at the tablet as though I'm writing on paper it comes out a lot better
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it's difficult to build a 100% objective Q&A site focused on Graphic Design. We bend the SE rules probably a lot more than most of the other network sites because GD is subjective in nature. The rules we make are to prevent it from becoming a free-for-all yet still allow subjective questions that will work on the SE platform
Chrome does not render subpixels properly, and that also has a lot to do with webfonts looking all mangled. No fractional tracking, for example. It is either 0px or 1px. At least last time I checked.
I contacted LinkedIn to claim a company page, they made me add an email ending in the same domain as the company website, I did it and they say we've added you, go and edit it... I go to edit it and some random person has been assigned as administrator :/
It takes a day between every communication, so they're slowing me down a lot now
Missing links warning means that your document is terminally broken for printing. You should never, ever, send anything to print with this warning. What you need to do is relink the originals, that is if you still have them around.
What has happened is that the original files are missing. InDesi...
isn't this a graphics design issue. Sure its also use support but its quite clearly something a graphics designer should know,
By same token most questions should be in super user?
I mean the likelihood that superuser will do anything more than we did is infinitesimal.
Hey guys, what is acceptable when it comes to critique in a question? One of the questions I commented on asked about kerning. How would that user get feedback for that? Also is there a FAQ for Graphic Design that's not /tour?
@joojaa I think missing links sort of does fall into a software bug issue thingy, it's useful to know for a designer but if someone has that question again they should probably also be referred to superuser
It's borderline, and I would've skipped it myself in review because I don't like the tricky situations :)
@AndrewH I haven't seen the question yet but I imagine a kerning critique would be welcome
@AndrewH Smart guides are not helping pretty much, cause the transform size are not same for all groups. Also yes I'm confused about the kerning. — tintinmj1 hour ago
@Matt been meaning to say sorry about the other day, I really didn't mean to have a discussion in here when you asked me to make a separate room, it just happened
That's also a trick for forging signatures, turning it upside down so you're just drawing a scribble and not trying to make letters in their handwriting
Not sure. Never tried it myself. I thought that only hard connections could allow the MBP to stay awake when closed. I don't even know if a USB connection would work. I think primarily its the video ports which cause wake on close.
@cockypup brush lags are generally more about applications and video cards. I had a horrible lag when CS6 first came out. It turned out I needed to replace my video card. It had nothing to do with thw tablet.
Think tomorrow I'll look into more controls for it. I'd like to make some kind of button macro to switch pressure between Opacity and Size
For the initial coloring it was nice having it as size, then I switched to opacity for the highlights. But being able to switch between both would be better. Or maybe I'll see how well the tilt works for size
When a question is put On Hold users can still cast up or down votes. In very rare cases are these up votes. Most often they are down votes.
Since the question is closed, it seems like "piling on" negativity to allow users to cast down votes when the user already isn't going to get answers.
Is...
Design Volleyball
As a way of increasing community activities we've created a chatroom, Design Volleyball.
The format is very open. Come in, pick an existing image you like, and make something new from it. Can be subtle changes or substantial changes. Just get the creativity going.
We recommen...
