Things would be very different if I actually knew how to draw/paint/create digital artwork.
I think you could get an older model for next to nothing now. I'm sure you could do great things with it. In my opinion a graphics tablet vastly expands the possibilities of Photoshop, even if it's just for effects like drawing lighting or smooth gradients of clouds/shadows etc. etcs.
That's an idea, but would primarily be used for effects probably. As I said, I can't draw. A tablet won't change that. I could learn I suppose, I've tried in the past. But I don't have the patience/will to learn it. As much as I love graphics/art, I don't enjoy creating original pieces.Just setup a Wacom Cintiq as your seventh screen!
And they last forever. I got a 13" Cintiq HD in 2014 to draw comics that I still use daily. Personally I prefer the pen to a mouse even for general computing.
Here's something I drew last week more or less for fun.
..and you're using photoshop.Just setup a Wacom Cintiq as your seventh screen!
And they last forever. I got a 13" Cintiq HD in 2014 to draw comics that I still use daily. Personally I prefer the pen to a mouse even for general computing.
Here's something I drew last week more or less for fun.
Maybe ya need to change ya focus..have you tried contour drawing?
I appreciate it, but it's just not anything that drives me. I much prefer using the computer and manipulating art that's already been created.
Well guess not today then eh..but maybe at some future point.
I've made an effort recently to revive one of my favorite Intel MacBooks, a pre-unibody 15" MBP. I have two in fantastic physical condition, one with a 3,1 lobo in it and another with a very dead 4,1 lobo in it. I've since spent some time combining the best parts of both into one beautiful machine!
Here's a mid-2007 15" MacBook Pro in fantastic working order! The case is in beautiful shape - I'll get some pictures of it when I get home and have good lighting. I've put a matte display on it, and swapped out the top case for that of the 4,1 so I have the full multitouch trackpad that's a delight to use! With 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD on Snowsemite, this machine is incredibly snappy.
The battery in this machine also works well - it's an Apple original from 2012 with 48 cycles at 84% health after calibrating it. I can get a solid couple of hours out of it if I'm sitting there typing and listening to music, which is what I mostly use this machine for these days.
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The logic board also has one of those little green stickers I've read so much about, and I'm taking it as a good sign of health. Fingers crossed this machine will live a long, happy life still to come
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The replacement LBs in my 2007 MBPs were produced before the originals, so I guess they took a stash of spares and slapped new GPUs on them.I spy that your green-dot logic board was produced (or newly assigned, post-GPU fix) during the 11th week of 2009.
Good to know! I’ll be looking forward to a long, productive life out of this machineI spy that your green-dot logic board was produced (or newly assigned, post-GPU fix) during the 11th week of 2009.
..and you're using photoshop.
Have you had a look at Krita:
Digital Painting. Creative Freedom.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.krita.org
The best gift I can get from someone is an old and broken computer. It'll entertain me for days on end as I repair it! Tinkering is so much fun. And I totally get using and noodling around with some computers just for the sake of noodling around with themSome people like to play video games. I just like to tinker about.
Tis coincidental but yesterday I was searching raspberry Pi stuff and a small (3 inch) monitor came up. It wasn't the monitor so much (as I've already got one) but the info on the screen. I was quite interested but it turned out not to be an add on for a RPi but a stand alone unit... a little monitor that runs of a USB port on a PC.“What have you done with an Early Intel recently?”
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Whilst running my late 2011 A1278 MBP on the High Sierra SSD, I’m just having fun glancing at the telemetry with the Intel Power Gadget 3.7.0 utility as I enable/disable Turbo Boost Switcher.
I’m also noting how a after month of intense, heavy usage on my laptop over on the Snow Leopard SSD side (there are two SSDs in this here laptop… but thinking about the possibility of putting in four SSDs someday!), the battery seems to have rebounded somewhat. When the MBP arrived, I was seeing 92–93 per cent capacity, which fell to as low as 86–87 per cent after that month of intense use (whilst keeping the charge between 20 to 85 per cent throughout that 55-charge cycle marathon).
And here we are, back at 90–91 per cent.
Some people like to play video games. I just like to tinker about.
The best gift I can get from someone is an old and broken computer. It'll entertain me for days on end as I repair it! Tinkering is so much fun. And I totally get using and noodling around with some computers just for the sake of noodling around with them
Some people like to play video games. I just like to tinker about.
After all, there has to be a reward for the hard work. All work and no play...
No one ever accused me of being lively.
. Full-charge capacity a bit lower, but what's the most interesting - CoconutBattery reports same manufacturer . (Replaced battery was Apple original).
Good to see the fight against those digital bad guys still continues, but if those jokers ever get modern day AI we'll have a real problemSame here. As I've mentioned before, I'm now at the stage where I own more items that I purchased/received faulty/dead and restored to working order than stuff which was bought brand new. A family member recently asked me if I was interested in any gear and I said old computers and games consoles will be perfect and it doesn't matter if they're even working. 😁
Some months back, I bought an 80s computer and was disappointed that all it required was a good clean with surface wipes. So anti-climatic.
I like to do both: play video games on stuff that I've fixed and/or tinkered about with.
ZX Spectrum+
C64
After all, there has to be a reward for the hard work. All work and no play...
