maybe we’re just early in the story?

Ebenezer Scrooge?

just doing my part ;)

Apple’s prices have been more reasonable in recent years, although still above-market. and the Mac Mini is a pretty powerful little machine for a good price.

Pascal… Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… A long time

I actually have Krita. I use it for creating digital art with my tablet. I don’t really use it for editing/compositing like PS.

I do a few different types of graphic design and photo editing for some different clients, but it’s more about the workflows I’ve worked out in PS. GiMP does things very differently, and I think that’s why a lot of PS users hate it. I sure do. it took me years to master PS. I don’t want to have to go through all of that again, and I certainly don’t have the time.

I will check out the plugin you mentioned. I’ve heard of it, but didn’t think much of it before.

Quality troll

lol, eat me hahaha

interesting you should mention your old machine. I recently upgraded my 2016 MacBook Pro to a M4 Pro MBP. Photoshop ran fine on the old one. Great, actually. The only difference I noticed was that PS launches faster and opens files faster, buuuut… that’s about it. PS already ran fine on my 9 y/o MBP. the new machine didn’t improve much, other than the RAM, which allows me to have more large docs open at once.

my last machine only had 16GB of ram, whereas this new one has 48GB (the max for the MBP). still, the performance is pretty close-- although my old machine would probably struggle if I had a bunch of large PSDs open.

as an investment, I didn’t really have a choice-- my old MBP died (ssd fried). I love this new machine, tho. it’s very fast.

She collected Social Security up until her death. It wasn’t welfare, but it was a government social program.

I opened Photoshop, and I left it open with no document open. Just the main window. It started at 11 GB of RAM and went up to 28 gb without me doing anything.

If there was anything that was as good as Photoshop, I’d have switched years ago. But I’ve tried the alternatives, and they’re just is nothing like it. Same for InDesign. Affinity photo is really really close, but it’s just not the same.

I’ve been using Photoshop for over 30 years. Even when the time comes, making the switch will be very difficult.

edit: I just tried opening PS again and letting it sit. it’s hovering around 3-3.5GB of ram usage. I think that last attempt was a fluke.

I feel ya buddy

This is from Senator Chuck Grassley, not Chuck Schumer

Pray that you didn’t end up in CECOT

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

• Hanlon’s razor

Once upon a time, this “political extremism“ used to just simply be called “being a decent human being“. How far we’ve fallen.

Probably because the population has never given a shit about crimes of their presidents

That is an outright lie. Proof: I’m giving a shit right now, not that you give a shit. that’s like saying, all Jews approve of what Israel is doing, and that’s pretty fucking untrue as well.

Americans are not a monolith. There’s 340 million of us. We don’t all agree on everything. You can’t put us all in the same box.