Hi tasmanianartist. I too much prefer the photograph I can hold in my hand and place in an album. ...
- same here - I have a lifetime of photo albums and love leafing through them occasionally; sometimes for information, or sometimes just for a walk down memory lane. I love the ease of digital art, but would like to have pieces I value in a physical shape - there are only so many mugs, scarves, t-shirts etc I can buy from all the POD providers online, so I started putting the digital pieces in digitally created albums, and when I have a 100-page album together, I'll invest in a printed copy.
potet - the effect on that mug is great - one trick to 'lose' a double chin on someone is to have them extend the chin by looking up to the photographer in an appropriate position - good photographers know a few 'looking good' tricks.
@i am still Kevin - ah ... I'm not good at technical explanations (my bad) - but I took a screenshot of the old macbook's 'cover flow' feature; with the grabhandle between the 'cover flow' slide show on top, and the 'list of files' at the bottom, I can make either smaller or larger (in height) as needed - very handy. I've not worked on a new PC since 2008 so wouldn't know if they now do that too. Cover flow is handy when quickly scanning through a camera disc full of photos of the same subject, to choose the ones to work on - having to grapple with a 'magnifying glass' feature is a little ho-hum; I've had a few of those on photography software - not liking them.<button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button>
About that continuity - (if it weren't for internet security, and things online requiring new, safer software, I wouldn't have bought a new computer) ... not everyone on the planet wants the next fastest, biggest, largest etc - some of us oldies want to be able to take that 1998 CD of photoshop 5.5 with one or two features that are REALLY NECESSSARY for those specialized things that we create, but are no longer available on the pay-by-the-month-on-the-cloud subscription only that Photoshop now has - out of a pensioner's $range anyway - and load that CD into a 2021 laptop and load it again, so we can continue using it. Same goes for the 2005 Corel Painter - can no longer be loaded into a 2021/2 computer - and so the list goes. New generations of hard and software have no option to continue where we left off - each new version reinvents the wheel and we have to start from scratch finding a 'similar' effect to the one we loved in 2005 Corel Painter, or the 1998 Photoshop 5.5
This new macbook air with Monterey 12.2.1 (2020, not even 2022) does not even have a camera card slot. Or a USB slot - it has a grand sum-total of two (yes 2) thunderbolts, which necessitated the purchase of a 6inch long conversion cable at just under AUD$30 to take a USB plug - if I want to read the dozens of old bird photograph archive CDs on it, I'll have to get a space-age-looking dock of sorts (goodness knows what that costs). I had to buy a separate CD reader with USB plug in 2014, when I bought the 2014 desk top iMac, as that one already had no CD slot.
That's what I mean with continuity - one buys the latest in technology and uses it, and by the next generation (which lasts something like 2 weeks), it has become about as useless as tits on a boar with the result that much of what one has created has become inaccessible because the new generation of soft and hardware refuses to give me access to the previous season's storage units (what a disaster when my new IBM of 2000 just died in 2003, and the replacement PC had no way of reading the old floppy discs, because it no longer had a floppy disc slot).
At least for now, with the 6inch conversion cable, I can also read the CD reader, the external hard drives, and with a bit of luck the memory sticks, too - I haven't been game to even try since the 3 old macs are still working like new. (Tho I have to add that I had to wind a bit of duct tape around the charger cable because the sheathing of the cable between the charger and the macbook has simply crumbled and cracked - it still works, but THAT is not what I expected of an expensive apple/mac hardware bit - and a replacement would be AUD$119 ... doh)
I have no need for 'Avatar'-type movie creation software (I loved the movie, btw), or games that involve half the cyber planet (nothing against any game) - I'm an old-fashioned visual artist first - pencil drawings, acrylic on canvas or wood (good old-fashioned floral folkart, for example), etc, but since my hands no longer want to function properly, digital has become the mode of necessity - and with each 'space ship console' version, I have to first go to school again and learn to understand the new gadget, and make it work for me again, to get the effects as close as possible again on the painting of a rose, for example - I cannot simply hop in and expect that the new thing works exactly like the previous one - it never does.
And that's not just apple/mac - I expect that, when (if) I obtain a PC (from whoever), a six-year old will first have to explain to me the new terminology and what's what and where, since my last non-apple/mac-PC-encounter was 14 years ago. ........... as I said - no continuity for us who specialize, and thus are using only a very small number of features of any given computer - just enough tools to do what we want to do. And outlaying another AUD$600+ for a new version of a software, when the other on the old computer still does exactly what I need it to do, is highway robbery.
Having the option when purchasing a new computer, to choose the old tools to reload onto that new computer would be real continuity in my humble opinion - so far, each new computer, PC or mac, has become more alien, with the loss of tools that I used every day on the computer that preceded the new one. Sigh ... so now I have a new computer that is 'internetworthy' (as in 'seaworthy' - fit to work safely with new protocols online as its software is again 'auto updated'), and the other three serve my artistic tools that are 'obsolete', yet some of my favourites. But at some stage, even these computers will die, and then my old tools will be gone.
That's what I mean with 'continuity'. Like in my kitchen - I still use utensils, or tools, that I obtained 50 years ago, because they did exactly what I needed them to do - and they still do (mind you, some have died, and the new replacements were pure rubbish, and quality alternatives are few and far between). Call me outmoded ...
Cheers
Marlies
Well as I said, I think, My PC is quite old. It's not some new fangled device that cost umpteen thousand, like one I built for one of my sons (The 4k 'gaming' monitor alone cost £400!) I am using Office 2010 (only bought because the 15 year old DTP software I used would not save in a file type that could be used at Lulu). I do my art and design in Paint Shop 95, which was free with a magazine in 1995. (And it amazes me it still works in Windows 10.) I do have the expensive Windows 10 Pro, but only because it was on the PC when I bought it secondhand.
But in a nutshell I replied as a did because you made it sound that only Macs are suitable for graphics manipulation, which is far from the case.
BTW. I have 170 year old axe passed down through the family. It's only had 6 new handles and 3 new heads ...
