My guess is that you would want to use Inkscape to replace Illustrator, not GIMP. GIMP is more of a Photoshop alternative, whereas Inkscape is more of an Illustrator alternative (Inkscape does...
. . .it certainly can't replace Illustrator. . .
My guess is that you would want to use Inkscape to replace Illustrator, not GIMP. GIMP is more of a Photoshop alternative, whereas Inkscape is more of an Illustrator alternative (Inkscape does vector graphics).
As an amateur digital artist, I used Gimp for years because Adobe products were just too expensive for me. It did the job. Now I have switched to Clip Studio Paint, which I think is great....
As an amateur digital artist, I used Gimp for years because Adobe products were just too expensive for me. It did the job.
Now I have switched to Clip Studio Paint, which I think is great. Definitely niche, but I honestly enjoy it more than I ever did Photoshop and Illustrator. I once learned those two in a graphic design class I never finished, but it was worth it because it introduced me to the basics of digital drawing, and I find that most applications work pretty similarly anyway. Maybe I would think differently if I were a professional designer but, yeah, I too am fine with my alternatives!
And let us not forget that Adobe's shareholders who have put their capital at risk and need to be rewarded by the increased value of their shares.
Adobe's developers put in a tremendous amount of work, and the yearly (or monthly) annuity helps make sure the mission-critical software I use stays available and up-to-date.
And let us not forget that Adobe's shareholders who have put their capital at risk and need to be rewarded by the increased value of their shares.
Oh, yes. Muscle memory. Windows owns me. I've been using Windows-based computers for about 20 years, with Microsoft Office packaged in, with me becoming an expert user of Excel and a proficient...
Oh, yes. Muscle memory. Windows owns me.
I've been using Windows-based computers for about 20 years, with Microsoft Office packaged in, with me becoming an expert user of Excel and a proficient user of Word.
Recently, I started a new job where everyone has Macs. I've never used a Mac. Ever. Suddenly, I'm using one every day... and it's awful. Nothing I do works right. Every gesture is wrong. Every shortcut fails. I know how to navigate Windows without thinking. I'm continually tripping up on the Mac.
What's even worse is that, after a while, my boss offered to let me work from home a couple of days per week. So now I do the same tasks at home on my Windows 7 PC that I do at work on my Mac - and the contrast is torturous. Even after more than a year, I just can not adapt to Apple's way of doing things. And switching back and forth from one to the other a couple of times per week is doing my head in!
I had the same problem when Microsoft revamped Excel a decade ago and added that infernal "ribbon". I had memorised just about every keyboard shortcut in Excel... and then they changed them all! Suddenly, I was a beginner again. Nothing I did worked. I had to relearn everything I knew, and it was a long painful process.
Windows owns my muscle memory.
Not that I object too much. Apple's ecology isn't very well suited for boring administrative office work. We have Microsoft Office installed. ;)
I'm sitting here imaging laptops for a small business and am raging at Windows 10's idiocy in the same way. Don't even get me started on the bastardization of the UI since 7. It's gone back to...
I'm sitting here imaging laptops for a small business and am raging at Windows 10's idiocy in the same way. Don't even get me started on the bastardization of the UI since 7. It's gone back to Windows 1.0 in looks and usability.
Like we all needed to have UEFI and boot from GPT partitions. Just another senseless 'innovation' that overcomplicates everything and as far as I can tell offers zero benefits of any kind to the old school BIOS/MBR mechanism.
The base image for the laptop was built on a UEFI system. Cloning it over to another UEFI system is no problem. Cloning it to older laptops that haven't got UEFI in the first place, not so much. Luckily I was able to figure out a way to downgrade the master laptop back to standard BIOS and convert the disk/data back to an MBR system, so that I can clone it onto several older laptops that I've resurrected with SSDs and more memory. Should save the company a bundle on upgrades. I'll be disabling UEFI on all their systems to get that trash out of everyone's way.
Seems like every iteration of commercial software just adds more garbage to the pile, and I'm forever having to sort the crap for other people. Sounds like a good business strategy if you've got a monopoly.
MBR has the 4 partition limit without extended partitions (and only supports 2 TB boot partitions), UEFI can be much more interactive than a traditional BIOS. It's unfortunate that GPT isn't...
Like we all needed to have UEFI and boot from GPT partitions. Just another senseless 'innovation' that overcomplicates everything and as far as I can tell offers zero benefits of any kind to the old school BIOS/MBR mechanism.
MBR has the 4 partition limit without extended partitions (and only supports 2 TB boot partitions), UEFI can be much more interactive than a traditional BIOS. It's unfortunate that GPT isn't backwards compatible, but I consider the one-time inconvenience worth the tradeoff. It's like x86 - yes, you can use >4 GB RAM and you can work with numbers >2^32, but it's more efficient to do these on a 64-bit CPU.
Extended partitions took care of the 4 partition limit decades ago, but you've got a fair point about the 2TB boot limit. Disks are much larger now so that's important. I've got a 'traditional'...
Extended partitions took care of the 4 partition limit decades ago, but you've got a fair point about the 2TB boot limit. Disks are much larger now so that's important. I've got a 'traditional' BIOS on my older asus gaming rig here that's more interactive and powerful that most UEFI systems - that's more a feature of the board/bios manufacturer than a part of UEFI itself.
I just spent a while using powershell scripts to rip windows app garbage out of 10 so sysprep would function properly and reseal the system. The stupidity is neverending, every step of this imaging process used to be so much simpler and more efficient.
Why do you think I'm using a Windows 7 PC, and not a Windows 8 or 10 PC? ;) The rest of your comment is gibberish to me: I'm not a computer programmer or developer or sysadmin or any other...
Don't even get me started on the bastardization of the UI since 7. It's gone back to Windows 1.0 in looks and usability.
Why do you think I'm using a Windows 7 PC, and not a Windows 8 or 10 PC? ;)
The rest of your comment is gibberish to me: I'm not a computer programmer or developer or sysadmin or any other IT-related person. How does it relate to the problems of muscle memory?
It relates to your quip about changing everything in Excel and Office just for the sake of changing things - not because it improves the software. Microsoft annihilates everyone's workflow in the...
It relates to your quip about changing everything in Excel and Office just for the sake of changing things - not because it improves the software. Microsoft annihilates everyone's workflow in the name of 'making things easier for non tech people' - which, frankly, makes less sense to me as any kind of 'reason' than my tech gibberish above makes to you. :P
The same shit is going on in the deep dark depths of the operating system where us techies live - pointless reinvention that forces you to re-learn everything again.
Lately I'm coming around to the mindset of "If I have to learn it all again, why not pick a better program or OS to learn, so that I can get away from this stupidity." Maybe this will come back to bite these vendors in the long run, if we're lucky.
It feels like Microsoft is stuck somewhere in between needing to support legacy software and wanting to push for more modern design and more modern features... So, we get an update system that no...
It feels like Microsoft is stuck somewhere in between needing to support legacy software and wanting to push for more modern design and more modern features...
So, we get an update system that no one asked for and animations that can compare with MacOS in their slowness but not their fluidity (Try opening Task View).
I'd like to see what Core OS brings to the table, but I'm not expecting much.
Is this about the ribbon UI? If so, I beg to differ. MS has seriously bastardized Windows with metro/modern (and they have no consistency, even in metro/modern applications), but the ribbon is the...
It relates to your quip about changing everything in Excel and Office just for the sake of changing things - not because it improves the software. Microsoft annihilates everyone's workflow in the name of 'making things easier for non tech people'
Is this about the ribbon UI? If so, I beg to differ. MS has seriously bastardized Windows with metro/modern (and they have no consistency, even in metro/modern applications), but the ribbon is the best innovation I've ever seen in UI design. However, it only works with huge, complex program like Excel and AutoCAD, lots of other applications implemented it unnecessarily.
That being said, I dislike the changes MS put into Office 365 recently with regards to icon style and ribbon coloring, but that's a minor quip that doesn't really affect usability.
I shift between Windows at my day job and OpenBSD at home on a daily basis. Naturally, I'm the only developer in the shop with bash installed, and I do all my documentation in vi and run it...
I shift between Windows at my day job and OpenBSD at home on a daily basis. Naturally, I'm the only developer in the shop with bash installed, and I do all my documentation in vi and run it through pandoc to get word documents I can send out because nobody wants to read plain text.
My guess is that you would want to use Inkscape to replace Illustrator, not GIMP. GIMP is more of a Photoshop alternative, whereas Inkscape is more of an Illustrator alternative (Inkscape does vector graphics).
This is correct, though I'd recommend Gravit over it. Not open-source, but it's free and web-based.
As an amateur digital artist, I used Gimp for years because Adobe products were just too expensive for me. It did the job.
Now I have switched to Clip Studio Paint, which I think is great. Definitely niche, but I honestly enjoy it more than I ever did Photoshop and Illustrator. I once learned those two in a graphic design class I never finished, but it was worth it because it introduced me to the basics of digital drawing, and I find that most applications work pretty similarly anyway. Maybe I would think differently if I were a professional designer but, yeah, I too am fine with my alternatives!
And let us not forget that Adobe's shareholders who have put their capital at risk and need to be rewarded by the increased value of their shares.
I just wish for once someone would think about the shareholders!!
Oh, yes. Muscle memory. Windows owns me.
I've been using Windows-based computers for about 20 years, with Microsoft Office packaged in, with me becoming an expert user of Excel and a proficient user of Word.
Recently, I started a new job where everyone has Macs. I've never used a Mac. Ever. Suddenly, I'm using one every day... and it's awful. Nothing I do works right. Every gesture is wrong. Every shortcut fails. I know how to navigate Windows without thinking. I'm continually tripping up on the Mac.
What's even worse is that, after a while, my boss offered to let me work from home a couple of days per week. So now I do the same tasks at home on my Windows 7 PC that I do at work on my Mac - and the contrast is torturous. Even after more than a year, I just can not adapt to Apple's way of doing things. And switching back and forth from one to the other a couple of times per week is doing my head in!
I had the same problem when Microsoft revamped Excel a decade ago and added that infernal "ribbon". I had memorised just about every keyboard shortcut in Excel... and then they changed them all! Suddenly, I was a beginner again. Nothing I did worked. I had to relearn everything I knew, and it was a long painful process.
Windows owns my muscle memory.
Not that I object too much. Apple's ecology isn't very well suited for boring administrative office work. We have Microsoft Office installed. ;)
I'm sitting here imaging laptops for a small business and am raging at Windows 10's idiocy in the same way. Don't even get me started on the bastardization of the UI since 7. It's gone back to Windows 1.0 in looks and usability.
Like we all needed to have UEFI and boot from GPT partitions. Just another senseless 'innovation' that overcomplicates everything and as far as I can tell offers zero benefits of any kind to the old school BIOS/MBR mechanism.
The base image for the laptop was built on a UEFI system. Cloning it over to another UEFI system is no problem. Cloning it to older laptops that haven't got UEFI in the first place, not so much. Luckily I was able to figure out a way to downgrade the master laptop back to standard BIOS and convert the disk/data back to an MBR system, so that I can clone it onto several older laptops that I've resurrected with SSDs and more memory. Should save the company a bundle on upgrades. I'll be disabling UEFI on all their systems to get that trash out of everyone's way.
Seems like every iteration of commercial software just adds more garbage to the pile, and I'm forever having to sort the crap for other people. Sounds like a good business strategy if you've got a monopoly.
MBR has the 4 partition limit without extended partitions (and only supports 2 TB boot partitions), UEFI can be much more interactive than a traditional BIOS. It's unfortunate that GPT isn't backwards compatible, but I consider the one-time inconvenience worth the tradeoff. It's like x86 - yes, you can use >4 GB RAM and you can work with numbers >2^32, but it's more efficient to do these on a 64-bit CPU.
Extended partitions took care of the 4 partition limit decades ago, but you've got a fair point about the 2TB boot limit. Disks are much larger now so that's important. I've got a 'traditional' BIOS on my older asus gaming rig here that's more interactive and powerful that most UEFI systems - that's more a feature of the board/bios manufacturer than a part of UEFI itself.
I just spent a while using powershell scripts to rip windows app garbage out of 10 so sysprep would function properly and reseal the system. The stupidity is neverending, every step of this imaging process used to be so much simpler and more efficient.
Why do you think I'm using a Windows 7 PC, and not a Windows 8 or 10 PC? ;)
The rest of your comment is gibberish to me: I'm not a computer programmer or developer or sysadmin or any other IT-related person. How does it relate to the problems of muscle memory?
It relates to your quip about changing everything in Excel and Office just for the sake of changing things - not because it improves the software. Microsoft annihilates everyone's workflow in the name of 'making things easier for non tech people' - which, frankly, makes less sense to me as any kind of 'reason' than my tech gibberish above makes to you. :P
The same shit is going on in the deep dark depths of the operating system where us techies live - pointless reinvention that forces you to re-learn everything again.
Lately I'm coming around to the mindset of "If I have to learn it all again, why not pick a better program or OS to learn, so that I can get away from this stupidity." Maybe this will come back to bite these vendors in the long run, if we're lucky.
It feels like Microsoft is stuck somewhere in between needing to support legacy software and wanting to push for more modern design and more modern features...
So, we get an update system that no one asked for and animations that can compare with MacOS in their slowness but not their fluidity (Try opening Task View).
I'd like to see what Core OS brings to the table, but I'm not expecting much.
Is this about the ribbon UI? If so, I beg to differ. MS has seriously bastardized Windows with metro/modern (and they have no consistency, even in metro/modern applications), but the ribbon is the best innovation I've ever seen in UI design. However, it only works with huge, complex program like Excel and AutoCAD, lots of other applications implemented it unnecessarily.
That being said, I dislike the changes MS put into Office 365 recently with regards to icon style and ribbon coloring, but that's a minor quip that doesn't really affect usability.
I shift between Windows at my day job and OpenBSD at home on a daily basis. Naturally, I'm the only developer in the shop with bash installed, and I do all my documentation in vi and run it through pandoc to get word documents I can send out because nobody wants to read plain text.
Not on mine. I'm still happily using CS5.
I had to get out of the game when freehand quit working after Rosetta was deprecated. Still can't stand to use illustrator.