Just started using the new Photoshop CS. Man, do I love nested sets! How the hell did I live without them? It makes organization soooo much easier.

Miths

Check out Image:Adjustments:Shadow/Highlights. This new functon allows you to balance the over all tonal range of an image in a fraction of the time it took in PS 7 and earlier. It is truly remarkable.

S/H is the single most HOLY FUCK THIS IS WORTH THE PRICE addition to CS. Bar none.

Holy crap, you're right. That's much more streamlined than the old way. Sold.

But fuck, how many times am I going to have to pay these upgrade prices?? Feels like I've already bought this program three times in the past year.

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But fuck, how many times am I going to have to pay these upgrade prices?? Feels like I've already bought this program three times in the past year.

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You have. My ass, err, I mean my wallet, still smarts from all the reaming, err, I mean upgrades.

I probably will say this next time too, but, right now everything works quite well so I plan on skipping at least one upgrade. I swear! Unless there is a feature so compelling that I can't resist.

I'm curious what y'all think of Version Cue.
A lot of development appears to have gone into it, but it appears to me, so far, to be an end run around the Mac Finder.

And while I laud the attempt to maximize pro workflows, I keep wondering if the operating system shouldn't be doing this better, first.

When the file browser IN an app, is better than the Finder... I worry.

I installed Version Cue in the office but was affraid to turn it on when I saw VC has it's own pane in System Preferences. I saw it as a route to pooch the system pronto. Nasty bits running in the background scare me.

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Originally posted by RicoX:
I installed Version Cue in the office but was affraid to turn it on when I saw VC has it's own pane in System Preferences. I saw it as a route to pooch the system pronto. Nasty bits running in the background scare me.

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Prefpanes don't bring the system down. You gotta stop thinking in OS 9 terms

Yeah, but brother Arlo, SO MUCH these days flakes out the system, that you can't blame brother Rico for being gunshy. I am. This operating sytem breaks at the drop of a hat and you know it.

"Thinking in OS X terms" is exactly what being gunshy is. Because it ain't reliable.

GoLive CS bug: anyone gotten the disappearing Objects palette yet? Irritating. Just a blank palette sitting there. Hide it, go to show it again, and it never materializes. You have to reset the workspace.

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Originally posted by thalo:
Yeah, but brother Arlo, SO MUCH these days flakes out the system, that you can't blame brother Rico for being gunshy. I am. This operating sytem breaks at the drop of a hat and you know it.

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Please speak for yourself. Really. I don't "know it" because it simply doesn't happen to me.

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I don't "know it" because it simply doesn't happen to me.

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Oh yeah, I forgot, X-Men are magically immune to all the massive screwups and flakiness, poor performance, beachballing, unexpected quits, app hangs and prefnesia. Timeouts and non-responsiveness, and commands not being executed. And then when I conclude that they obviously must not be asking a lot of their systems, then they get insulted at that.

LOL Arlo.

The only Panther forced restarts from the freshly hypnotized converts in the office were for the 9 reflex to restart when the system freezes. Only one user out of 4 figured out to bring the Finder forward and force quit. The years of conditioning on the others reflex set in to force restart. I have not looked at any logs yet but all the freezes that have occured seem to revolve around the classic environment. Quark 411 mostly. Quark 6 paradise or nightmare. I guess I should be hoping Quark sends us 6.1 on disk.

One machine is having a particularly hard time with Quark 411. It is a mix of things. When opening a document 411 will crash. It unexpectedly quits the Classic Finder. I loaded a new iMate driver on this machine for the ADB key that made a home in System Preferences. Right next to Version Cue. It has a really dead icon to boot more for less.

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I don't "know it" because it simply doesn't happen to me.

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Oh yeah, I forgot, X-Men are magically immune to all the massive screwups and flakiness, poor performance, beachballing, unexpected quits, app hangs and prefnesia. Timeouts and non-responsiveness, and commands not being executed. And then when I conclude that they obviously must not be asking a lot of their systems, then they get insulted at that.

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We've been down this road before. You have all these problems. I don't. Why do you have such a hard time believing that? Because you can't get your mind around the idea that some people ARE happy with OS X, and AREN'T these blind morons that you paint them to be?

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some people ARE happy with OS X, and AREN'T these blind morons that you paint them to be?

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I think it's Apple who's painting the userbase as blind morons. It's them that's getting away with murder. Putting out crappy, terrible software, and heaping enough distracting garbage on top of it, that it dupes gullible people into believing they're happy. I can get my mind around that, sure, I think I understand how the con works... but I don't have to like it.

Speaking of Adobe products, I was just twiddling around with BumperCar for OS X, from Freeverse Software. It's a kid-safe web browser. At the "low" security setting I was able to make it both to the thalo.net home page and the forum main index page. But I couldn't get inside the "The Brother 'Hood". It found an offending word. Smart browser, that one.

I thought this preference list was amusing. On the "Ratings" tab under BumperCar's safety settings are these options for setting the level of sexual content that is allowed. I'm assuming this list is in ascending order of naughtiness because this other one….



…has "Violence against objects" as #1 and "Sexual violence, rape" as #11. (Apparently, just like Spinal Tap, the volume knob goes up to eleven on this stuff). What's amusing – at least to me – about this second list is that sexual violence is listed as worse than the killing of humans. In an age where "no means no," rape can be a relatively non-physical-violent act (really, sometimes just a matter of a passionate misunderstanding) and does not end the life of the person. Murder is always violent and is permanent. But maybe this isn't a volume knob paradigm. Maybe this is all just a big jumble of settings because I can't imagine that "Graphic violence against unrealistic characters" at #8 would be listed as worse than the killing of animals, which is at #6. I can understand, on the sex list, that "Passionate Kissing" would be at the #1 mildest rating, but why would "Explicit sexual acts" be at #4 while "Bare breasts" is at #6? Breasts are gooood! (And let's not even talk about #9, "Detail of female genitals." Nobody, except gynecologists and preverts, needs to see that close.)

Until I turned all this stuff off I couldn't get in to ANY index page thread on thalo.net. Are we such potty mouths in here? Oh, and this last list is the most political correct of all. My eyes are rolling even as I speak:



I think we need someone to do the equivalent filters list for a thalo.net browser, if one were to exist. Anyway, I ain't against allowing parents to filter content on the internet. But it does provide some amusing examples when you get down to the nitty gritty of it.