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I think I've had Photoshop 2.0 for about 8 years now.
Thursday, 30-Jan-14 03:49:01 UTC from web-
@clayinthecarpet I have CS4 installed
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@nerthos What is CS4?
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@clayinthecarpet A version of photoshop
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@clayinthecarpet Creative Suite 4. We're on Creative Suite 6 atm
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@scoot Oh cool. Never really heard of it except what I've seen of people talking "CS4" in here.
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@scoot In that case, I'd say my version of Photoshop is far too outdated to perform what all these pony artists are doing right now.
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@clayinthecarpet The fact that you're using an old version is irrelevant. Even the ~1996 version I used as a kid had more than enough functions to be useful for drawings.
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@clayinthecarpet Well it's probably pretty far behind, but with skill I'm sure you can still make good stuff in it.
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@scoot Bleh, nevermind. I'm working on an older Windows system with PS 2.0. I don't half-ass anything. I do it right or not at all, so I'll just wait until I care more and have more money.
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@clayinthecarpet It doesn't really matter as long as you're familiar enough with the program to use it.
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@redenchilada I only edit photos. Know next to nothing about it otherwise, and I've never been to college and can't get there. *shrugs*
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@clayinthecarpet >Not running on trial mode and clearing cache every month
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@clayinthecarpet Wouldn't be hard to learn. The programs are designed to be figured out easily, after all.
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@nerthos Trial mode? I have a legit-purchased copy of PS 2.0, if that's what you mean.
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@clayinthecarpet I mean newer versions. In any case adobe charges faaaar too much.
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@nerthos I know. :( It's insane what they charge to single, non-corporate customers.
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@clayinthecarpet Yar harr fiddle dee dee
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@redenchilada I...uh...I wouldn't even know where to begin. I literally know nothing, and the landscape of PS is mostly alien to me. Re: I don't figure things out easily by myself. XD
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@clayinthecarpet Find video tutorials or something. I used to avoid them like the plague, but apparently they're really helpful.
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@clayinthecarpet Well, you already know how to open an image and select things, right? The only other functions you'll need are the brush and eraser tools. Super easy.
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@redenchilada Oh, cool. Well I guess I could work with that. But I don't know how layers work, really, and I know vectors and digital stuff needs layers and cleanup per layer and stuff like that. Bah, it's just a daunting feat and I'm sitting here being a defeatist about it. Here's my final response on the subject: "Maybe later."
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@clayinthecarpet Layers are real simple, though. Plus, seeing how experienced you are in traditional, you could always work without layers if they're that daunting.
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@redenchilada Nah, I can already see how layers could, conceptually, be easy. It's just learning it all and perfecting it. I don't like to be bad at something because...well...I'm not used to presenting a bad product, at the risk of sounding big-headed. haha! It's just, my work needs to be made quickly and efficiently because it's this cathartic thing that I need to get out of me RIGHT NOW. If I ever had one of those moments while learning digital, I couldn't use digital to do it, anyway, so why bother, I guess is my deepest complaint.
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@clayinthecarpet Well then, if you wanna learn digital the best way is to just jump in and do it. Don't even fret about being inspired for your first digital things; just get some prompts and draw things to get into the digital habit. And if you just can't get away from doing sketches traditionally, you could do what a lot of people do and do digital linework over a traditional sketch.
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@redenchilada Hrm. And how does that work? Do you just pen something, scan it, then color it digitally using the pen lines as guides, or what?
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@clayinthecarpet Pretty much.
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@clayinthecarpet It's a lot like traditional animators would do in the 80s. You would draw it in pencil, scan it to a computer, and ink over it in a computer program, eventually removing the sketch altogether and replacing it with the ink.
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@redenchilada We'll see. It's nice to know there are options. However, if I pen something, it usually means it's "set in stone" to do a certain way, and only that particular way. I'm so damn stubborn that learning a new trade just does NOT come easy for me.
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@mrmattimation I don't get the specifics of how that works yet, but I see what you mean.
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@clayinthecarpet Although you can do as much of it traditionally as you're comfortable with. I tried the traditional/digital thing once with this by doing all of the lines on paper (in dollar-store pencil) and just doing coloring and shading digitally, for instance.
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@redenchilada Very nice, actually! I, considering my pen lines are usually very clean, would probably opt to do things this way as it's very easy to control. It's kind of the easiest "next step" toward digital.
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@redenchilada What's the syntax for anchors again?
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@mrmattimation [Blah blah words](Valid URL of some sort)
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