Not much history this week, just Morticia putting her bats to bed.

I scanned today’s image from my copy of Evilution, it is also published in Homebodies.

The page from Homebodies was fairly dark, and I am not great with Affinity photo so I could not do much to fix it. The scan I made today turned out pretty good, so I used that.

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  • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
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    1 month ago

    I love the look of the older books with the sepia pages. I always try to find the strip I want to post in one of those old books. But some the image quality is poor, or in this case the brightness, and contrast is horrible.

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      1 month ago

      So you’re using “Affinity Photo” to deal with that stuff?

      Assuming you’re familiar, any comparison to GIMP?

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        1 month ago

        I dislike the UI for gimp. I spend far too much time trying to figure out where stuff is.

        I use affinity designer to crop the PDFs and export them to png. I usually do not do any manipulation, but today needed something. I probably should have stuck it into the iPhone photo app and messed with it there.

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          oh fam I love and hate GIMP. it makes no freakin sense at all. I respect that. It’s, how you say, individualistic? If I don’t use it for a month or so I gotta do a bunch of web searches to figure out how to do anything. But yo, I respect open-source! so I use it for all my comic strip fan edits.

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            I used it the other day for the first time in six months and it took me about five minutes to remember how to crop an image.

            And it was a webp source image so I couldn’t just use kolourpaint.

            • Sergio@piefed.social
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              1 month ago

              relateable! to be fair, gimp has a lot of information out there like tutorials and how-tos and such…

          • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
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            1 month ago

            I used Macromedia Fireworks, then Photoshop, and now Affinity. I still find myself looking for Photoshop stuff in affinity.

            I really have tried to get used to gimp. But well my time is too valuable to me.