deliberation over

[hypatia42]

I have ordered my new computer. Never done anything like that before. Never had a choice in what computer I had available to me before. It took a whole lot more energy and brain power than I think is really wise for me to devote to the subject but I got it done finally. I expect to not have to devote energy to that purpose for a while. Oh so soon my second twin will be delivered. My babies(fraternal), one computer and one camera. We'll grow together.

I'm seriously tempted to start carrying the camera with me most places I go.

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[hypatia42.livejournal.com]

There is a part of me that is afraid I'll damage it by doing that. Its not a bomb proof as the Pentax is. I know I just need to work with it more to get past this but it is definitely there.

15" Macbook Pro.

[nkcmike.livejournal.com]

Maybe you oughta get a little cheapy Canon for daily use.

You got a Mac?!?!?!?!? Philistine. ;-)

[hypatia42.livejournal.com]

Says the graphic designer... Photoshop was written for Mac you know. Not that I'll be getting that in the near future.

One of the things that decided me was that most everything I want comes already installed on a Mac. I'd have to buy several programs for a PC. That and I have built in support system for Mac. ;)

[siriciryon.livejournal.com]

If not built-in, certainly at beck and call.

[hypatia42.livejournal.com]

I have one, not the computer. *smooch*

[siriciryon.livejournal.com]

Did I manage to put my Mac geekery in our common consciousness? *blink*

[hypatia42.livejournal.com]

You've done your level best.

[siriciryon.livejournal.com]

I haven't really tried yet. You haven't asked to learn it and most people get annoyed real fast when I volunteer lots of info.

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

I won't be much help in software that isn't Photoshop, because it's all I've ever used. But where I CAN help is this: often, it's hard to find help in the help files because you don't know a specific enough term to look it up properly -- you know what you want to do, but not, perhaps, what it's called. (You will have a slight advantage here over many users, because lots of things are generally called by what the photography world calls them -- color dodge or burn, for example.) But if you can't find what you want to do in the help file, call me, and if I know what you should be looking up, I'll happily tell you. Also, I can clarify anything you run into that's specific to the printing industry, like "dot gain 20%" or whatever, if you run across something with which you're not familiar.

Your screen is better than mine, though. Maybe I should ask you to do my color corrections. >:-)

[hypatia42.livejournal.com]

dot gain what?!

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

My point precisely. It's a setting you'd find when saving out a grayscale photo in certain file formats, and it's not important unless you're professionally press-printing; even then, if you're printing at decent quality, it doesn't matter much. It developed in newspapers, because the paper is so cheap that the ink spreads dramatically, so they had to make some serious adjustments in halftone photographs to allow for the extra amount the ink was going to spread out from each halftone dot, in order not to get a dark morass of ink where their photo should be.

If you're printing on an offset press with decent paper, it's a non-issue to anyone who isn't wearing a loupe. With good paper, especially with coated paper, there's little to no spread from where the ink is laid down.