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clevermanka) wrote2019-11-01 12:56 pm
clevermanka) wrote2019-11-01 12:56 pm
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Oh, okay so that's my tipping point
Something happened with Photoshop on my laptop a week ago--not surprising, Adobe's being real fuckwads lately--but mckitterick couldn't figure out the problem before he left. NBD, I don't do a lot of image manipulation, mostly cropping, sometimes a small color adjustment or upping the contrast. I can get by on Picture Manager for a little while. I use it print a bunch of base images for the cards.
But these pictures look like shit. Super pale, pixelated, just...worthless for use as base images (where I need good color saturation and high contrast). I fiddle around with the printer settings, the software printing settings, everything. Should be great. It's not. I look in the properties tab and y'all. Y'all. Picture Manager is opening everything, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g, at 96dpi. Even those high-res promotional photos. 96dpi.
Now, you might say "Just print them from the internet, Manka!" And that would be an entirely reasonable suggestion if you gave it to someone other than me. Because along with the Photoshop problem, my laptop refuses to see that there is a printer connection via the internet. Any of my desktop software products? Fine. Anything online? Doesn't see the printer.mckitterick wasn't able to figure that one out, either. Did I mention he worked in the documentation department for Microsoft in the early aughts? He can find his way around MS products. And he couldn't figure it out. I'm not figuring it out, I can say that for damn sure.
So that's when I was like okay Fuck This Shit I'm Out and cried for about two minutes but sucked it up before I gave myself a migraine and I don't feel better but at least I know where my limit is! Not that I can do a damn thing about it, but hey! Information's always good, right?
Anyway! Not makin' cards today! or, really, anytime soon because it's gonna take me at least a couple days to figure out an Adobe alternative. I have all the Tumblr posts about those, so I have the resources. I'm just...well, as you might have heard, technology has a real hate-on for me and I'm just being realistic about how long it'll take me to decide on a program, download it, and be able to actually use it. If I decide to try it at all, because there's the very real possibility that something will go massively wrong and I will utterly wipe my hard drive or something. I mean, it's funny, but I'm not joking.
Guess I'll write some today after all.
Gonna turn off email so I can at least (try to) focus on something for a little while. No worries if I don't respond to comments for a while. I just re-read this post and it sounds kind of down? but I promise I'm okay. This really is my life. Aaaaaaaaaand, uh, I'M USED TO BEING INJURED. *laugh-cry emoji*
I'm hilarious.
mckitterick couldn't figure out the problem before he left. NBD, I don't do a lot of image manipulation, mostly cropping, sometimes a small color adjustment or upping the contrast. I can get by on Picture Manager for a little while. I use it print a bunch of base images for the cards. But these pictures look like shit. Super pale, pixelated, just...worthless for use as base images (where I need good color saturation and high contrast). I fiddle around with the printer settings, the software printing settings, everything. Should be great. It's not. I look in the properties tab and y'all. Y'all. Picture Manager is opening everything, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g, at 96dpi. Even those high-res promotional photos. 96dpi.
Now, you might say "Just print them from the internet, Manka!" And that would be an entirely reasonable suggestion if you gave it to someone other than me. Because along with the Photoshop problem, my laptop refuses to see that there is a printer connection via the internet. Any of my desktop software products? Fine. Anything online? Doesn't see the printer.
mckitterick wasn't able to figure that one out, either. Did I mention he worked in the documentation department for Microsoft in the early aughts? He can find his way around MS products. And he couldn't figure it out. I'm not figuring it out, I can say that for damn sure. So that's when I was like okay Fuck This Shit I'm Out and cried for about two minutes but sucked it up before I gave myself a migraine and I don't feel better but at least I know where my limit is! Not that I can do a damn thing about it, but hey! Information's always good, right?
Anyway! Not makin' cards today! or, really, anytime soon because it's gonna take me at least a couple days to figure out an Adobe alternative. I have all the Tumblr posts about those, so I have the resources. I'm just...well, as you might have heard, technology has a real hate-on for me and I'm just being realistic about how long it'll take me to decide on a program, download it, and be able to actually use it. If I decide to try it at all, because there's the very real possibility that something will go massively wrong and I will utterly wipe my hard drive or something. I mean, it's funny, but I'm not joking.
Guess I'll write some today after all.
Gonna turn off email so I can at least (try to) focus on something for a little while. No worries if I don't respond to comments for a while. I just re-read this post and it sounds kind of down? but I promise I'm okay. This really is my life. Aaaaaaaaaand, uh, I'M USED TO BEING INJURED. *laugh-cry emoji*
I'm hilarious.