#personal workflow

[laidbackmarco]

Workplace Automation with Google

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Bill Gates When Bill Gates talks about choosing a lazy person to do a job, he’s not referring to an irresponsible person not willing to do any work. Instead, there’s a special level of laziness where a person assigned a task is willing to find a more efficient way of doing complex or repetitive…

[stark-lord]

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[marsbotz]

some sick sort of dream

[m4rked-for-life]

Guys... guys... parents are getting me bump dot stickers for my tablet so that I can draw easier. Life is joyous.

[hanzajesthanza]

“i meannn you don’t need a camera to film if you already have iphone 16, or even 15”

who said anyone had iphone 16 🤨 wtf

[bmpmp3]

vaguely speculating on the vocal synthesis industry like its fantasy football completely unprompted: if somehow either synthv or cevio managed to get a hold of nurse robo type t for a commercial AI voicebank i think that would usher in her era fully. we're already basically there with how much her talk banks and occasionally her utau banks are used in so many songs..... i keep saying this but i think the nurse robo era is nigh..........

[shiori8]

Di Angelo Siblings

Sooo, to absolutely no one's surprise the new Percy Jackson reboot kicked me into full-blown pjo brainrot mode again lol. I saw these super cute fits and some vintage photos of Venice alleyways floating around on Pinterest and was consumed with the need to draw the Di Angelo siblings in them (it's probably wildly "historically and geographically" inaccurate for them, but we're just going to have to deal with the fact that I'm dumb and uncultured xD It's the vibes™ that count, okay!)

Psst, wanna see something cringe😂? Found this old sketch of them from one of my first forays into digital art years ago:

And to quote past-me "I can barely look at the old one, but at least that means I improved, aye?"😂

[thegreathomestuckreread]

okay. i think perhaps the terrible, terrible moment has arrived. i need to find a new photo editing program

photoshop elements 8, my beloved dedicated photoshop elements 8 from the free software disc that came with my wacom bamboo tablet in 2012, is no longer opening certain types of gif files

it's possible it was never capable of opening these gifs idk, it's specifically gifs with a lot of frames that aren't opening, like the painting gifs from chicory a colourful tale, or the plot point gif from homestuck beyond canon

there is also the fact that a very long time ago i started having issues with the scroll bars not moving properly and needing to use specific shortcuts to scroll around. so the writing's been on the wall for a while, this is a sixteen-year-old program that was bound to stop working eventually and the time has come for me to finally grit my teeth and find something new

please if anyone has any recommendations for photo editing programs i would appreciate it

relevant information:

i already know about gimp, paint.net, pixlr, and photopea. i am looking for something more fully-featured and not browser-based (needs to be an application that can be downloaded, installed on my computer, and used offline)

i'm willing to pay some for something good but only a one-time fee for full ownership of a program i refuse to engage with subscription services

also down for some yo ho ho if anyone has resources for that

i need something that has both strong photo editing tools and illustration tools because i use both of those (although moreso the photo editing tools)

needs to be able to open large gifs with lots of frames, as well as save to gif format with robust options

needs a transform tool that can turn anti-aliasing on and off freely. it can't be turned off in pse8 and that has been annoying for editing pixel art, which i need to do a lot for making homestuck upd8 video thumbnails

needs to be able to flip/rotate/etc. specific layers without having to do that to the entire image. pse8 can only do flips like that with the entire image, i've been cutting layers into a new document flipping them and repasting them back into the original document to get around it which is very annoying

need to be able to see the whole image when using the liquefy tool, not just the layer i'm working on. pse8 will pull the single layer you're working on into an isolated popout window with a white background to use the liquefy tool so you can't see whether it's proportionally correct to the rest of the image

hmmmm that's all i can think of rn. thank u for reading this post it came out way too long lol and thank u for suggestions if u have any!

[justgallifreyanthings]

ohhh learning about illustrator’s appearance attributes is going to absolutely revolutionize my cot workflow

this is what happens when you’re 100% self taught btw!! no one tells you there’s a way to nondestructively stack strokes and fills and instead you’re left to stumble upon the knowledge in a youtube short you’re watching at 4am because you can’t sleep

[eyes1nthewoods]

too many project ideas ☹

[bunnyboy-juice]

its so fun to me that literally everywhere i exist i am inevitably associated with Cuteness and Joy

[birdmenmanga]

tempting to hit post on my exchange piece and then promptly kill myself but my righteous heart wants me to reblog everyone else's exchange posts first

[starmocha]

no wonder i'm so fucking cold it's -6°f rn

[recsspecs]

Good students, on the other hand, constantly raise the bar for themselves

as they focus on what they haven’t learned and mastered yet. This is why high achievers who have had a taste of the vast amount of knowledge out there are likely to suffer from what psychologists call imposter syndrome, the feeling that you are not really up to the job, even though, of all people, they are (Clance and Imes 1978; Brems et al. 1994).

- How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens)

[ironmanstan]

school absolutely killing me mentally bc im learning sm but its like i have this huge equation i need to solve to punch up anything i make and it genuinely feels like when im actually doing math snd i cant keep all the number straight or visualize them at the same time or if i focus on one part i forget about the other part and i have to have it all laying out right in front of me and i know what to do in theory but actually working it out takes me so so long and its so exhausting

[greyed-rabbit]

Consuming ungodly amounts of x-men media has convinced me to start designing my own superhero characters so here's a few lil sketches