stress-spun reiteration

[egypturnash]

I hate Photoshop. I can't find anything in it. Ever. Where the @#$% is the tool to let you edit a gradient? I can't @#$%ing find it. I've found it before and now I can't find it, just the stupid "preset manager" that lets you delete and load and save them. I hate Photoshop.

I hate Flash, too. Every release has been slower and slower for me. It's impossible to focus on something I'm trying to do when I have to wait a second or two after damn near every click. MX2004 is *almost* usable compared to MX. It's still a big sluggish piece of garbage.

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Oh, there's the gradient editor. Click on the gradient in the gradient fill options bar instead of the drop-down next to it. Searching the help on 'gradient' managed to find that. How @#$%ing logical. I hate Photoshop.

And the first person to say the stuff about who blames their tools gets hurt. Flash is a poor tool.

Also, my net is screwed and I can't seem to upload anything larger than, say, a piece of text e-mail. So I can't put files up on the collaboration site even if I wasn't stressing and spinning my wheels, or get them out via FTP, or e-mail. I hate computers.

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While I'm venting, I'd just like to say that the least unusable version of Flash was 5. Every release since then has been downhill. Doing anything involves a lot more clicks than it used to. And waiting for Flash to get off its ass and decide to respond to those clicks. Supposedly they're going to try to fix that in the next version, but I only trust Macromedia to get it wrong. Admittedly now that Adobe bought them maybe they can go back to 5's UI. They ditched it 'cause Adobe sued them 'cause it was a bunch of easy-to-use palettes, just like Photoshop and Illustrator. It's still palette-heavy but it's ugly awkward ones now, and the main hate is for the "contextual inspector palette" that replaces the frame palette, the instance palette, and about six other palettes, and tries to be "smart" about what it shows you. "Smart" meaning in this case "annoying".

Comments

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... taking your example, I could say "Maybe."

With Gimp 2.2, open up the Gradient list/window via the tool window's File menu (or right-click the image for the dropdown menu, or the image's menubar, or the image's upper left corner of the ruler bar), select the gradient to edit, and at the bottom hit the pencil-on-document icon. Or double-click the gradient's picture. Or right-click the gradient and choose from the menu.

You know, there's too many ways to edit a gradient in Gimp (as well as do anything else), plus you can change the keying of particular commands (like I have done: Shift-Control-V pastes into a new image).

*double-checks* And yes, it still supports TGA files.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Gimp makes me weep bitter angry tears. I've tried Photoshop back from 2.5, up to CS, and I always go back to 5.5. Not too bloated, I'm used to the tools, and it makes sense.