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18th May 2012, 1:54 PM
I'm seeing a $50 a year price tag on that. I'm not buying a year subscription to use Photoshop myself.
I'll just stick with Gimp, even with the incredibly offensive name. (The images they've made advertising features don't help, with various amputee'd animals demonstrating images.) Really, if they want anyone to take them seriously, they need to grow up and rename the damn thing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
18th May 2012, 2:00 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:I'm seeing a $50 a year price tag on that. I'm not buying a year subscription to use Photoshop myself.It's $25 if you bought from adobe before and it's not just photoshop it's the latest version of every adobe project that exists like glorious aftereffects and premier. And it's a guarantee you always get the latest and greatest as soon as it comes out. For example I just got aftereffects CS6 which that alone has paid for it for three years.
18th May 2012, 2:01 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:I'm seeing a $50 a year price tag on that. I'm not buying a year subscription to use Photoshop myself.Gimp stands for Gimper his dog.. He named it after his dog.
18th May 2012, 2:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 18th May 2012, 2:42 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I guess it's a fine deal if you intend on using it on a daily basis for big projects. I myself would only use the software once in a blue moon. There's also the matter of simply preferring to own software until the heat death of the universe instead of in the form of a license.
I don't care if he named it after his dog. I wouldn't much appreciate someone naming a piece of software after their cat Niggerman, no matter how much affection they have towards their admittedly innocent cat. Note: Niggerman was the name of the main character's cat in the Lovecraft story "The Rats in the Walls". Yeah, sometimes you gotta really twist your mind around certain elements to enjoy those stories, and really that's one of the least racist things I've read in those stories. Herbert West: Reanimator featured two scientists gathering dead black people from underground boxing matches who "wouldn't be missed" when they had to find bodies. The description of the black people as "monstrous" didn't help matters. It doesn't stop at black though, he goes on to describe the corrupted swamp hillbillies who's inbred young are essentially a family of mole men who will one day emerge from the depths and rule the world. Horror of Innsmouth's horror was the result of the people of that town inbreeding with horrible fish people, their grotesque young plotting to sacrifice purebred humans to their dark sea god. Think of that next time you play OOT and Ruto proposes to you. The Horror at Zora's Domain indeed. Basically what I'm getting at is not only was Lovecraft racist, he was actually more racist than the average person in his time, his own wife telling him to lay off the jews on numerous occasions. Well that was uncomfortable. Anyway, I don't much care how lovingly such an offensive term was originally intended. It should be changed.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
18th May 2012, 2:53 PM
At any rate I have been playing around with adobe Illustrator and I have to admit I think InkScape is still king maybe just because I'm used to it... I think maybe If I force myself to use illustrator some more I'll discover all it's hidden adobe gems. I already discovered some really awesome things in adobe audition like native auto tune support. And I really love how all the Adobe programs talk to each other, like I can composite a special effects shot in After Effects and with a single click add it to my premier project. And then I can even make changes to the shot and both projects will update in real time with the help of adobe proxy's.
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