(Taken 22 Oct 2004)
The horror that is my mobile computing experience. After Best Buy switched out my old failing laptop for a new failing laptop, and again switching that one out for an even newer "mobile desktop", I realize that this thing was never meant to hit the road. Packed with tons of extra multimedia software, I keep finding new programs on here every month. So far I have found at least 4 programs that claim to be able to help me work with photos, but until today I have only been able to use Microsoft Paint to crop these things down to size. Unfortunately that tends to cause a major loss of quality to my pictures, so for the first time now I'm trying out Picture It, which boasts the ability to export in pre-selected widths. So I chose the 600px width option this time and I'm not overly impressed. Until I find something better, we're just gonna have to make do. Any suggestions on what to get? I'm not dishing out the dough for Photoshop, but I'd like to at least be able to change pictures to B&W.
5 comments:
use photoshop CS i think, honestly, it's the best out there. i'm totally in love with adobe and i think all of their programs are beautiful entities
ps i love your pictures and i think you're right about art. i feel the same way. i stopped writing because i'm i don't know, waiting for something significant to strike me and i'm also terrified of letting love affairs into my writing because i feel like it's trite, you know? anyway, my new year's resolution is to be reckless i like yours as well. call me sometime.
Darling I'd love to use Photoshop CS but $650 is a bit out of my price range for just a simple blog. I'll look at Photoshop Elements for $100 but honestly all I need is something along the lines of Apple iPhoto or GraphicConvertor. Some of the bugs I encountered with GraphicConvertor concern me, but most of them were with vector graphics and aren't applicable to photo editing. If I were serious enough to dish out for Photoshop I might as well go for the Macromedia suite to make graphics for an original blog layout rather than tweaking an existing blogger template.
so i think i commented on an older blog! but i miss my jonathan! i hope japan is treating ya right.. and that you are treating japan right ;) hehe keep up the excellent blog and website! its fabulous -Brandi
well, i meant the way i got photoshop and dreamweaver and flash and all that jazz; illegally. i forget that you aren't as ridiculous as me, occasionally. i miss you, when do you get back?
For good /free/ photo editing SW, try GIMP..
See http://www.gimp.org/.
It's available for Linux, Windows, and Apple.
It has some pretty sophisticated capabilities and it's relatively easy to use.
Carter (cousin)
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