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ArtRage

gman — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:32:00 +0000

I friend of mine recently pointed out this program, ArtRage which is a Painter like program with at least one major difference. It’s only $20.

ArtRage, Painter and similar products are arguably a different category from programs like Photoshop, PaintShopPro and the Gimp in that the later are primarily designed for image manipulation where as the former are designed for drawing and painting on a computer.

My experience is mostly with Photoshop so I don’t know Painter or any of the other digital art programs that well so I’m not sure what makes one better than another. My impression is ArtRage is extremely nice for $20. One feature ArtRage has that is probably standard in these types of packages but that I had not personally seen before is that when painting with oil the oil has a thinkness and dryness setting. If you paint thick non-dry oil and then draw over it with the palette knife or other utensil it will smear in proportion to it’s thickness and dryness. Most programs I’ve used in the past didn’t keep that kind of information. Another example, if you apply think oil and then draw a sharp pencil line through it you’ll part the oil meaning you’ll see the thinkness in the oil around the new pencil mark. Put different colors of paint down and smear them and they will mix into different colors. This also works for markers, draw with say a wet purple marker then draw over it with a yellow marker and it will smear and get mixed just like real markers.

Anyway, for $20 it’s completely an impulse purchase. There is both a Windows and a OS X version and a free version as well.

Maiyahi

gman — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:34:00 +0000

I’m not sure where this started but links are pooring in for parodies for this song which I think is called “Dragostea Din Tei”. Check them out at your own risk.

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And I guess the original? as

Neon (digital camera joy)

gman — Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:26:00 +0000

This is one of the things you do when you’re alone and bored. Near the end of August / beginning of September 2000 most of my friends were seriously busy. One had recently got a serious girlfriend so he was always at home They are now married, Congratulations Another had an accident in the family and had to leave the area to a few months. So, I was pretty much alone.

It’s interesting to me how hard it is to make new friends the older I get. In high school and college it’s easy. There are lots of people you are around everyday. They are all doing similar things and the are all relatively the same age. Now that I’m 35 (when I wrote this) it’s not so easy. I’m not a member of a church. If I go to a school the likelihood that there is somebody near my age and that has time to "hang out" gets smaller and smaller as more and more people "have other lives".

As for me, at the time I decided, if I can’t go to dinner with my friends then I’ll just have to go by myself. I beats saying at home where there’s absolutely no chance of meeting somebody.

So, I ended up in the east of Beverly Center area and I decided to take a few pictures of neon signs to pass some time. Here are the results.