bklyn

Gift cards say, “I could have just given you cash, but I wasn’t considerate enough to also give the freedom to buy what you want. I have therefore restricted you to store of my choosing, for if I cared at all about you, I’d actually have been able to buy a suitable gift myself.”

using PortingKit, I’ve had good luck running windows games on my M4 Pro MBP. when that doesn’t work, I try CrossOver.

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Being able to walk through the turnstile for the subway without having to get the “MetroCard swipe” trick down. Just a “kerpling!” from my phone or watch, and I never have to swipe that stupid card again.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, I was pretty lucky. I knew/ know a lot of people who had it much worse.

12 or 13. but it took until I was 18 before I admitted it to myself and came out.

the 90s were a different time.

that would be a long list

Congratulations. I am now terrified of my own brain.