It's been raining here as well, just not enough.

We have different standards for weather though, most Americans I've met thought our summer's were wimpy too.

lba
Now that I have a new HP laptop, I'm really wishing I had gone ahead and spent the money for a apple.

tl;dr Vista sucks

Yeah… um installing the adobe suite on my mac took no more than an hour, and my tablet was like 2 minutes.
Can't you just add XP to your laptop? And that way you could use both operating systems. apples are nice, but photoshop on a pc really isnt THAT different.

HP products suck, get gateway or sony. My gateway laptop loads photoshop in 5 seconds, i've always thought this was cool. (compared to my former shit computer that would crash if it tried to run it lol)

So i got: dreamweaver cs3 and manga studio the other day. Dreamweavers learning curve was surprisingly steeper than i'd imagined- but with the template i'm creating in photoshop everything should be fine. And manga studio…not so much a learning curve as it is completely inferior to photoshop in every way.(besides tones) I got it to run on vista but it skips lines sometimes…ah well

I think i'm the only one here who likes vista. (mainly because i tweaked mine to get rid of all the annoying security questions)

I like Vista. It runs fine if you have the correct drivers loaded and aren't an r-tard.

Pretty much all computer builders get their products from the same places, so to say HP sucks compared to Gateway is an archaic thought process. The only real difference is the options they give to the consumers.

Computer builders… Well there are thousands of different possible combinations of part and each vendor makes different choices Cori. They don't all work the same. Even instillations of the OS work differently…

I run Vista on one of my machines at home and it's working better than XP now at this stage. My current tablet on there is a 12x12 Intuous 1 (USB) and I run Photoshop CS1, and it all works beautifully. :)

I love Vista. Sure it has problems, but so does every other operating system ever made.

Rant: I just discovered that it's impossible to get Knightmare on DVD. WHAT THE FUCK?

I hate it when I get two headaches in a row. (As in a nonstop headache for two days.)
-_-

My toe still hurts like a mother fucker

mechanical_lullaby

jimbobjaroo
English summer usually starts around september, weather wise XDDD

God, so sick of this. Been here two days and already I've seen a stolen comic!!

Where?

http://user.drunkduck.com/Alphadingo is the one who posted it, the comic they called ‘nightfallen’ doesn't actually belong to them.

Who does it belong to then?

Custard Trout
Who does it belong to then?

http://www.kolumbus.fi/umbrenmetsa/ One of my friend's on Deviantart, that is her website, where the comic is hosted in her language, and here : http://shadowumbre.deviantart.com/art/page-21-95121588 you can find the lastest page by her, and the first comments show that she has no idea that her comic is here (doesn't know what DD is) AND what's more is that the page I directed you to has a page of the comic NOT UPLOADED HERE so you can't tell me Shadowumbre stole it from here.

Boing, rambled

much like ozone, my vista works well. after a couple patches of course. when i first got it, i had problems out the wazoo, but in the last 4 months the changes have impressed me and made me a believer. it runs almost as smoothly as my xp….before it crashed. hopefully i'll have some money to stand on when i get so i can fix it. without buying a new machine.

jimbobjaroo
http://www.kolumbus.fi/umbrenmetsa/ One of my friend's on Deviantart, that is her website, where the comic is hosted in her language, and here : http://shadowumbre.deviantart.com/art/page-21-95121588 you can find the lastest page by her, and the first comments show that she has no idea that her comic is here (doesn't know what DD is) AND what's more is that the page I directed you to has a page of the comic NOT UPLOADED HERE so you can't tell me Shadowumbre stole it from here.

Boing, rambled

Then you should report it to one of the admins here…

I'm dealing with it now, but what you should do normally when you think work has been nicked like that is tell the person who you think is the original creator and get them to come and make a complaint or whatever, so they can prove they're the real creator. Sometimes the person putting up art here is actually doing it with permission or even the actual creator mirroring the work…

I know myself as a creator that I'd prefer to be informed if my art was being used elsewhere so I could look into it, because there's nobody alive better than me to prove that I'm the actual creator. ;)

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I have a real rant now…
Ok, I've got this artwork to get ready for printing onto bag for a conference, and the stuff the other “graphic artist” has supplied me is half in text and the rest is low-res jepgs, all in one eps file… -_-

So I tell the person dealing with that account that I really need stuff that's all in curves, outlines or whatever, vector artwork, so we can be sure of getting a good quality result when we send the artwork off to the printers.
(stuff in text will show up wrong too if the people you're sending it to don't have those fonts installed, i.e. me)

This TREESTUMP of a woman sends back a 12 meg EPS file that is ALL the artwork, text and all, as one great big bloated raster image. In TWO different blacks. And with the jaggy low-res parts still as jaggy as ever.

So, I explain to the person dealing with her what I need more carefully and she writes to the foolish graphic designing monkey that we need ALL artwork in VECTOR format and if she doesn't know what that is can she please contact us and we'll explain to her.

Treestump girl writes back that she knows “very well” what vector art is (with a smiley face after it no less!), says she had some issues with Photoshop or something, and then sends almost EXACTLY the same work she did the FIRST time. The only difference being the two blacks (100% Cyan-Yellow-Magenta 0% Black, and 0% CMY 100% black). Suffice to say the only vector art there was the background rectangle in the mismatched black… lol!

UGH! So instead of bothering doing the runaround with Mrs treestump again I spent an hour and a half looking through media kits and press releases online to harvest the logos I didn't have and carefully recreated from scratch the ones that I couldn't find…

For someone who didn't ever study to be a graphic designer, I find it pretty funny how little a lot of other graphic designers seem to know…

OK, thanks ozoneocean, truth is she now knows it's here and isn't too happy about it. She asked my to try sort it out because she can't speak english too well (she's finnish)

So I was cleaning my glasses….and a lens popped out. Either I pressed down WAY too hard, or the lens was never put in really well in the first place. I'm thinking more the second one, I've always felt that they looked like they could be poked out easily at any time.

I think it can be screwed back in, but if not I have to readjust my eyes to older, less stronger glasses until I get them fixed, and then draw with that. Ugh. Either way I hate the frames I've been using, they literally cut the sides of my head even after getting them stretched out. I think they're just in general too small. I've never had any luck picking out frames by myself. >_>

One day I need to get lasik surgery or something, if only the look of that surgery didn't kind of freak me out. (Looks like something out of Clockwork Orange with the eye hooks. So are you going to zap my eyes or force me to watch violent films?)

damn, im pissed off. i got a call last night at work around 11 pm from this gorgeous girl i met at a bar and she wanted to hang out. the problem was that i would be working until 7 am. she tells me she was sad because she was having relationship problems with the guy she is seeing with. then my phone battery runs out in midconversation. so it looked like i hanged up on her.

fuuuuckkk

ive been trying to reach her all day. i think she might be mad at me now… of all the times i needed my phone to work right. that is just bad luck. it's like something is always going on when im around her. first time i met her she and her roomate got into a fight where the roomate actually brandished a knife at her. the next day i helped her move out. haha that was a couple months ago…now her exroomate is her friend again.

we hanged out last fri at a bar and some cop was hassling her claiming she was high and asked if she had any drugs.

!lol That was a great story ozone. Once I saw her explaining she was having problems with Photoshop for vector artwork… my side was splitting. And to think I can't get any freelance work because I'm too inexperienced. !lol

Anyway, here I am wearing a heart Holter (that's how they spell it) monitor. My cardologist detected a murmur and there's that black-out and I have occasional shortness of breath. Before the accident I was doing 8 flights of stairs five times a week for exercise. Two weeks after the accident I was out of breath after walking barely 300 yeards! You don't get that out of shape that fast.

And I should be writing. Two thirds through a great B-movie type sci-fi horror slasher script and I just can't bring myself to write. It's an excuse to beat myself up. :)

SarahN
One day I need to get lasik surgery or something, if only the look of that surgery didn't kind of freak me out.

You should totally do it, Lasik is frickin' rad and your vision is all perfect 4 hours after the surgery. It's the only one of the large purchases of my life that I don't regret a whit :) It takes like 20 seconds! Magic!

I am watching Indiana Jones try to put on a uniform that's too small for him :) That kind of makes me sad though because although I have lost weight lately I haven't gone down a full clothes size yet :[ :[ :[ I HAD to buy a new pair of jeans today and I was pretty upset it was still in the old size..

subcultured
. then my phone battery runs out in midconversation. so it looked like i hanged up on her.

Jesus 0_o I have a fear of that happening to me.

subcultured
it's like something is always going on when im around her. first time i met her she and her roomate got into a fight where the roomate actually brandished a knife at her. the next day i helped her move out. haha that was a couple months ago…now her exroomate is her friend again.
some cop was hassling her claiming she was high and asked if she had any drugs.

…on second thought maybe you're being warned she's more trouble then she's worth.

also, she's a stripper.
and no, i didnt meet her at a strip club. actually, she came up to me at a bar… and no, there was no fellatio deal or any ulterior motive. to this day i still dunno why she ever started talking to me. its prolly cause i feign indifference around her that night.

SarahN
So I was cleaning my glasses….and a lens popped out. Either I pressed down WAY too hard, or the lens was never put in really well in the first place. I'm thinking more the second one, I've always felt that they looked like they could be poked out easily at any time.

I think it can be screwed back in, but if not I have to readjust my eyes to older, less stronger glasses until I get them fixed, and then draw with that. Ugh. Either way I hate the frames I've been using, they literally cut the sides of my head even after getting them stretched out. I think they're just in general too small. I've never had any luck picking out frames by myself. >_>

Hmmm… are your glasses a bit old? My old glasses used to have that problem all the time… so I eventually learned how to use a screwdriver. I also heard some places put the lens back in for free but you could always consider buying a new pair. I find the frames nowadays are a bit stronger and I haven't had my lens pop out since my new pair. =\

I personally like wearing glasses. If I'm ever going to get laser surgery, it'd be because my eyes are so bad. I think I'm already like half blind or something. TT_TT

bravo1102
!lol That was a great story ozone. Once I saw her explaining she was having problems with Photoshop for vector artwork… my side was splitting. And to think I can't get any freelance work because I'm too inexperienced. !lol

The Photoshop hing was part of her explanation for the 12 meg raster EPS, not her “trouble” with vector art with which she apparently had none.

She was using Illustrator CS 2 for the rest.

As for outputting vector art or even creating it from Photoshop, while the options are limited, it's amazingly easy and even quite a bit smother than clunky old illustrator. :)

so i blew out my heel this morning. while running. i thought i'd be good since i only run 1 mile on days that i lift. ( i run as fast as i can). well….now my shin is killing me. ontop of that all the shoes at the “store” had arch support. but i'm flat footed. but i got the cheepest ones at 20…cause the rest were 60 or more….


i did get to talk with my wife today, and the conversation was not recycled or old. it was great. i enjoy the air force. other place's i wouldnt get the chance for that….

did i mention my shin hurts?

I finally broke down and ordered a resume writing service. Obviously, I can't afford it. I have no job. If I did, I wouldn't need a resume-writing service. :-P Over $200 too. Sigh. At least I can take it as a tax deduction (I think).

ozoneocean
The Photoshop hing was part of her explanation for the 12 meg raster EPS, not her “trouble” with vector art with which she apparently had none.

She was using Illustrator CS 2 for the rest.

As for outputting vector art or even creating it from Photoshop, while the options are limited, it's amazingly easy and even quite a bit smother (sic) than clunky old illustrator. :)

I love illustrator, but that's me. I would be doing my comic with it if I didn't just love what I can do with my action figures. You realize the pun you created by using “smother” for “smoother”? So to do vector work in Photoshop is smothering?

I'm still trapped with Photo Shop 7. Hell, I'd still be using Microsoft Millenium Edition if I could get away with it.

I'm using XP then updated Explorer and hated it. I changed it back. My laptop still has ME and I love it.

I wish my wife could use a Mac so we could get one. (Legal secretaries use PCs and Word Perfect PERIOD. Do not mention Macs in a law office because there's lots of conversions to do to get a Mac document etc, etc…)

RARRGH.

i would give my right leg if i could draw. i am serious here.

i have all these ideas, but whenever i try to draw them… i ruin it. and then if i try collaberating with someone, they never do anything, or i somehow ruin it D: i envy every single person on DrunkDuck who can draw there own webcomic skillfully. i'm stuck doodling god damn stickfigures. and i've TRIED learning how to draw, like what? 50 times? i just don't understand it. i am hopeless T________T

make it stoooooooopppp glargle

…I haven't opened my pq box yet, so i'll feel really bad if it's actually with fan-art or some nice letters. Ah well time to open it-

nobodie's hopeless when it comes to drawing, I emean look back at uper dave's archives for instance (not the first few, redrawn stuff), you'll see some positive improvement in my art, and I was of the same mindset as you. it's been what, 8 months since I started uper dave and the difference in quality is phenomenal, it happens, just takes time. and so I don't feel like a goon for not ranting, I can't do pressups. I have huge muscled arms, but it just doesn't balance out, can't do pressups at all, nope.

I'm an asshole.

I stopped updating my comic.

AGAIN.

I let it slide in first three, but I hate myself now.

Well, have my testing with the new place tomorrow. First part is a video thing, I guess, and I have to take down tons of notes, then answer questions based off of what I saw.