I can't sleep, I can't dream
Feb. 23rd, 2005 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaWell, tonight on my "nice quiet evening sitting doing nothing", I have:
Been to Tesco
Roasted some vegetables, and made roasted vegetable and feta pasties.
Fried lots of pig, and made bacon and sausage meat pasties.
Eaten my tea.
Tidied up the bombsite I'd made of the kitchen.
Installed Potatoshop on my laptop.
Now Potatoshop, my old enemy, and I are about to sit down to try and do what an experienced graphics-package user called "fifteen minutes work".
Start the clock :)
21:51 - Score so far: Photoshop 2, Windows 1, Venta 0
Photoshop: Ctrl-Z doesn't undo in a chain, it toggles between the last undo state and the current state. So, having munged it up, I had to close it and start again.
Windows: Complete, no-warning crash.
Photoshop: The brush tool draws grey, even though it says white is the selected colour. And it now won't use the brush tool at all, or save, because "the scratch pads are full".
?? Off to read the help :(
22:10 - Score so far: Photoshop 3, Windows 2, Venta 1
Photoshop: Descended into disk thrashing, refused to respond, and I wasn't even trying to do anything :(
Windows: Crashed again. My machine hasn't crashed in ages, so I reckon Photoshop encouraged it.
Venta: Have actually successfully edited something! I wouldn't say I'm cooking on classical gas yet, but I am at least in the same room as the stove.
23:20 - Stop the clock!
A plausible finished version. It's not perfect, but I think it's as good as me, my lack of co-ordinated sinistry and dexterity, and my strokey-mouse are going to get it.
Been to Tesco
Roasted some vegetables, and made roasted vegetable and feta pasties.
Fried lots of pig, and made bacon and sausage meat pasties.
Eaten my tea.
Tidied up the bombsite I'd made of the kitchen.
Installed Potatoshop on my laptop.
Now Potatoshop, my old enemy, and I are about to sit down to try and do what an experienced graphics-package user called "fifteen minutes work".
Start the clock :)
21:51 - Score so far: Photoshop 2, Windows 1, Venta 0
Photoshop: Ctrl-Z doesn't undo in a chain, it toggles between the last undo state and the current state. So, having munged it up, I had to close it and start again.
Windows: Complete, no-warning crash.
Photoshop: The brush tool draws grey, even though it says white is the selected colour. And it now won't use the brush tool at all, or save, because "the scratch pads are full".
?? Off to read the help :(
22:10 - Score so far: Photoshop 3, Windows 2, Venta 1
Photoshop: Descended into disk thrashing, refused to respond, and I wasn't even trying to do anything :(
Windows: Crashed again. My machine hasn't crashed in ages, so I reckon Photoshop encouraged it.
Venta: Have actually successfully edited something! I wouldn't say I'm cooking on classical gas yet, but I am at least in the same room as the stove.
23:20 - Stop the clock!
A plausible finished version. It's not perfect, but I think it's as good as me, my lack of co-ordinated sinistry and dexterity, and my strokey-mouse are going to get it.
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Date: 2005-02-23 10:22 pm (UTC)The 'scratch disk' problem *might* mean that you have not enough disk space available on your machine for the program to store all its temporary thingies. If you have to re-start, try saving regularly. This can be hard to solve if that doesn't help.
There are various possibilities for the colour problem and it's hard to suggest any solutions long-distance.
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Date: 2005-02-23 11:25 pm (UTC)A more plausible solution seemed to be saving the .ai file as a .psd file and then editing it, rather than editing the .ai file. I don't know if that was a real solution of just a coincidental happening.
The colour problem was actually just that when blowing the picture up to massive, pixels act a bit weird and sometimes you have to go over the same bit twice to make it properly white. Or something like that.
Thank you very much for the suggestions and offers of assistance, though :)