ClaudeJ1 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 On 11/7/2019 at 12:17 PM, Marvel said: There is a lot of software that I have used, and found myself realizing the sun was coming up... I used the first version of Pagemaker, which fit on a 400k floppy for the Mac, and the Mac I used only had 512k of RAM. Now all that functionality is built in to Word and has bee for years. The Mac's killer app was Pagmeaker, which put the typesetter's union out of business. The "killer app" for the PC was Lotus123, which caused a huge sales jump for IBM and clones. I talked to Jonathan Sachs, the guy who wrote Lotus123, and he's an avid photographer who wrote "Picture Window" as an affordable alternative to Photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 I haven't heard this mentioned here and it works well for the simple stuff that I do. Has tons of manipulative options and did have plug-ins a while back... don't know about now. https://www.getpaint.net/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 PageMaker was killed off by Adobe a long time ago when they rolled out InDesign. It is an awesome program and certainly won't get replced by MS Word. MS Word is still pretty unstable and can't reliably handle any of the complex needs of publishing. This will open up so you can see the work of a friend of mine. He does all the production in InDesign. (alert... this is a magazine of a Presbyterian college) You can make it full screen to view it. https://issuu.com/covenant-college/docs/view_spring2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 36 minutes ago, JohnJ said: Has tons of manipulative options and did have plug-ins a while back... don't know about now. I always recommend this to folks who think they want PS. Only works in Windows. It was developed by interns at Microsoft as a replacement form MS Paint, but they decided not to use it and released it to the interns. It woks really well. Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boom3 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 I despise Word but I have to use it at work. I use WordPerfect for all my literary and personal writing, as do many writers and journalists. I am sad that there has not been a Mac version in a very long time, but I can run WP in my Parallels Windows on my iMac. I gave up on PS and their silly subscription model long ago and use a UK program called Affinity, which is full-fledged suite of image apps. A lot cheaper and more user--friendly as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron167 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Walked a Christmas light setup. Quite the mix. Happened to get an interesting shot of my kids in front of a white board lit RGB. [emoji41] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 5 hours ago, boom3 said: I despise Word but I have to use it at work. I use WordPerfect for all my literary and personal writing, as do many writers and journalists. I am sad that there has not been a Mac version in a very long time, but I can run WP in my Parallels Windows on my iMac. I gave up on PS and their silly subscription model long ago and use a UK program called Affinity, which is full-fledged suite of image apps. A lot cheaper and more user--friendly as well. All the subscription models will make me switch to all open source software. Affinity is pretty nice. I've forced myself to learn GIMP, but after using PS and some other, it's still a bit user surly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshnich Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 After the rain in Calistoga 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 1 hour ago, joshnich said: After the rain in Calistoga That's not natural coloring is it? & my caffeine has worn off, I'm seeing coffee beans towards the right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshnich Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 2 hours ago, JohnJ said: That's not natural coloring is it? & my caffeine has worn off, I'm seeing coffee beans towards the right Not completely natural but pretty close. Here is an version that hasnt been computer enhanced. Still figuring out the computer thing for photography. I tend to "over do" it! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 That still looks like a magical wood! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polizzio Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 1 hour ago, joshnich said: Not completely natural but pretty close. Here is an version that hasnt been computer enhanced. Still figuring out the computer thing for photography. I tend to "over do" it! I wouldn't say you overdid it in your processing of this image at all. It appears to me the contrast was reduced slightly for better definition. A technique I frequently use in Gimp. Color saturation and contrast, my two fav tools in PP. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 7 minutes ago, polizzio said: I wouldn't say you overdid it in your processing of this image at all. It appears to me the contrast was reduced slightly for better definition. A technique I frequently use in Gimp. Color saturation and contrast, my two fav tools in PP. I would say absolutely that it was overdone. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshnich Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 4 hours ago, polizzio said: I wouldn't say you overdid it in your processing of this image at all. It appears to me the contrast was reduced slightly for better definition. A technique I frequently use in Gimp. Color saturation and contrast, my two fav tools in PP. Thanks! Reducing the photo to under 2mbs does change the way the photo presents itself. And I was looking to give it that magical and not completely natural look. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted December 16, 2019 Author Share Posted December 16, 2019 Not my photo, but how bout this for road grime art? 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 If proboynick wiped dirt off to make that it is impressive. Kind of like the sidewalk art that had folks stepping around the fissures open to the underworld! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron167 Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Merry Christmas Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted December 25, 2019 Moderators Share Posted December 25, 2019 3 hours ago, baron167 said: Merry Christmas To you also, happy kids, what more could you want ? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dirtmudd Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 I spent Christmas alone.... But Gia did not... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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