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12:21 PM

Q: Windows 10 and Mac OS printing different colours from same sources

Previously I had asked a question about Adobe printing different colours between PC and Mac, but it turns out that my client is experiencing this issue when printing any documents. I was able to test print two versions of a client's brand-standard RGB value from two machines on the netwo...

Ryan

1:19 PM

morning

JohnB

hello

I have a project I want to try. I took video of me and my climbing partner climbing the same route without moving the camera in between

so apart from the shadows shifting as time passes hopefully it should be easy enough to overlay one over the other to see who's faster :D

Ryan

probably

I just want to go back to sleep and pretend this entire weekend never happened. So tired from it

johnp

1:37 PM

hello room :)

JohnB

hey johnp

johnp

you went climbing again @JohnB?

JohnB

yep yep

johnp

i just got home last night from a weekend with my friends...hasn't dawned on me yet that they're moving away...

morning @johnp

1:38 PM

hey Ryan

oh and morning @ElizabethHart

JohnB

I think we took different enough routes to make hand masking not too much of a pain

@johnp awh

johnp

oh frightening! lol though I'm so emotionally barren I probably wouldn't fear the height

how high to the top?

JohnB

it sounds dumb and obvious but really I just don't look down and don't think about it :)

quite literal out of sight out of mind

30 meters

johnp

1:40 PM

yeah makes sense! that's impressive

JohnB

I fell once, actually my first real fall on the type of climbing I'm doing (sport climb)

johnp

fell!? I'm assuming you were tethered, though?

JohnB

yeah, it's actually good to fall. It takes the edge off. Once you're not afraid of falling you'll push yourself to try moves you might not normally

johnp

love that xD

Ryan

@JohnB if you ever take up slack lining I'd fly up to join you. That stuff is so cool - I'm so very bad at it though lol

johnp

1:42 PM

Love a good fall to get me going, he says

JohnB

I am not very graceful and definitely fall immediately and twist my ankle off

but there is a lot of overlap in the communities

Seeing how low quality this video is really makes me want to spend money I don't have on a camera that records in 4K

johnp

speaking of a 4k camera... the Yi M1 was released in china on the 23rd...it's pretty cheap

JohnB

I think I have heard of that, it's like a GoPro imitator right? I think it's a cube?

nope

johnp

it's a 4/3 sensor though...oh they may do sports cameras also...

JohnB

what am I thinking of

heh, I'm thinking of the Xiaoyi Yi

johnp

1:47 PM

yeah i think it's the same manufacturer...they sounds very interesting...with their macbook air alternative too...

JohnB

ah ok

johnp

my miser senses are tingling

speaking of which my chinese colouring pencils may have arrived today...they seem to have passed all production and timber sourcing standards, thankfully. Blood timber is like the new illegal diamond trade

JohnB

do they pass the johnp standards test?

johnp

haha everyone knows I have low standards :P I haven't received em yet as they're mailed to a deposit box, but they're supposedly better than Prismacolors. I was gunna practice with them before i splash out on crazy expensive Caran D'ache which is like 250 at least for 72..

JohnB

ah, I missed the "may have"

johnp

1:59 PM

the one that I got is about 30 usd

JohnB

I clipped out the part of me falling for your viewing enjoyment: gfycat.com/SardonicTintedGoat

it's a pretty tame short fall as far as falls go

johnp

:/ are you even wearing knee pads? lol

JohnB

I am not and as you would expect they are currently a little scratched and banged up

johnp

not sure I could continue from a shock like that

ouch

JohnB

I fully knew it was going to happen so it wasn't so bad. Typically the most you can fall under normal conditions is like 7 meters, that was only about 1.5

johnp

2:10 PM

7...risky business

Ryan

I need to get a macro rail for my tripod I think with those extension tubes but kinda broke now :(

johnp

maybe you could make one for the time being? youtube.com/results?search_query=diy+macro+rail

you can get a neewer one for ~25dollars

JohnB

how are the tubes working out for you?

Ryan

2:26 PM

I only shot a few around my apartment. Used the projector lens I got in them unattached and then used my 135mm in it.

The 135 works really well but crazy long. Need a larger tripod plate for it

JohnB

nice, super thin DOF :)

Ryan

JohnB

would you want a rail just for making small translation adjustments? Or would you want to stack exposures?

Ryan

both but small adjustments would've been nice. I was trying to carefully reposition my entire tripod lol

but when I say the lens is silly front-heavy let me show you

johnp

the detail is incredible

Ryan

2:31 PM

JohnB

oh geez haha

Ryan

Needless to say it wanted to angle down hahaha

johnp

did you need a background check for that bazuka

JohnB

are you sure that's a Sony? Looks like a cannon to me

get it

cause it's like a long barrel

Ryan

lol

johnp

2:32 PM

wince lol

JohnB

thanks guys

Ryan

here's a photo from the 3rd flower

JohnB

cool, and yeah I can definitely see why you'd want the rail

Ryan

@JohnB people want this reopened

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Q: 300 faces on 1 poster

Here is my problem. I have pictures of 300 people in JPG format that are numbered 1 to 300. In excel, I have 300 names in the same order. Now I must make a poster of 10 columns and 30 rows with each face and their name underneath. I have been Googling for 300 minutes and I am beginning to fear I ...

software-recommendations posters

I closed it because he says poster but then says each on a powerpoint slide

IMO its barely related to graphic design (i hate automation questions though) and isn't clear. You think reopen though?

JohnB

I don't feel strongly either way, if it's just a general "how can I do this" then we already have questions covering this

Ryan

2:47 PM

have a dupe I could use?

JohnB

if it's "how can I do this in PowerPoint" I would say don't do it in PP :P

Can Data Merge do this within InDesign?

@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ might know

Ryan

yep

JohnB

or Ryan might know :)

Ryan

the person also asked on photo photo.stackexchange.com/questions/83142/a-poster-with-300-faces

JohnB

oh, well that makes things messy

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

2:51 PM

yes you can do it in indesign

JohnB

The Photo Q already has an answer and isn't closed so I would probably just leave ours closed and link to it in the comments for anyone wanting to chip in their suggestions

Ryan

I opened and reclosed it with a note asking the person not to cross post

looks like Photo was posted a few hours earlier anyways

JohnB

ah, I just saw the comment on Photo suggesting to post here to make it look more "visually pleasing"

I guess he took that as "post there instead"

Ryan

they could ask that

Fine, I'll just reopen it and let the community do as they will

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DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

4:54 PM

afternoon

Ryan

@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ coffee in the morning, noon and night!

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

@Ryan awesome, I switched back to coffee instead of bull

heard what happened over the weekend, sorry about your car

Ryan

thanks, pretty terrible and ruined my whole weekend. Trying to not let it get to me but yeah, easier said than done

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

5:13 PM

we hit our last 90 degrees over the weekend

1 hour later…

johnp

6:28 PM

hello room

spent the last century converting the rest of my markers to brush nibs...it was tough as far as 1st world struggles go but I'm ok

very likely to be high from the ink fumes -_*

Ryan

congrats

johnp

sorry to hear you had car trouble @Ryan hope it wasn't serious...

Ryan

Someone hit me while I was driving home from the gym damaging my car's rear fender and sped off. Sounds like it's going to cost me around $1100 all said and done :(

johnp

any chance of getting them with cctv footage?

Ryan

nope

johnp

6:43 PM

that's horrible

Ryan

yep so now I probably won't be buying much equipment or traveling for a while :(

still going south to Miami this weekend since that was already planned but after that it'll be cutting back a bit to try and recoup some of the loss to my saving

johnp

people like that make me so angry... wish I could help somehow

johnp

7:39 PM

Disclosure - Magnets ft. Lorde (Jon Hopkins Remix)

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Meta Graphic Design

7:59 PM

Q: Questions that are not in English (or broken English)

I saw this question, which was originally written in Arabic. The author clarified what they were asking, so I edited the title. In the process, I edited the question, based on what I thought they were asking (and using Google translate). It seemed like a simple question and I wanted to help "sav...