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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Another L, Lake

I sketched our lake/pond yesterday from the porch.  I used a Prismacolor 05 and a brush pen.  About 20 minutes.

Number 4, lake - the easterly pond.

Then the fun started.  Joanna recommended I use a password generator/protector.  I installed the one she suggested.  About the same time my computer started crashing and usually when using wetcanvas.  We’ve had issues before with wc so I figured it was a combination of the two.  I uninstalled the password app and Firefox.  Reinstalled Firefox as it worked better on my old iMac.  Still freezing.  Uninstalled Firefox again and so it went for a few hours.  Next thing my iMac wouldn’t open.  I discovered that I bought it in 2008.  Wow.  Joanna will come check it out on Friday or Saturday.  I’m the meantime it is typing on my IPad and iPhone.  Drat.

I will probably have to get a new Mac.  A laptop or desktop?  Joanna suggests a laptop with a monitor and regular keyboard when home.  Neither makes me happy as everything works with apps.  With the poor internet that isn’t a great option.

I will not have Photoshop Elements to work on photos.  To resize this photo I had to use two apps.  Then in my photos I can’t tell what size the photos are or see the name so had to get another app for that.  I will have to open each photo or copy to see which is which.  So there will be many steps to do my blog.  Once I have a computer I will have to pay a monthly fee to use something like Photoshop or pay big bucks for the business version.

I will have to work on my website with an app or some such with a fee.  I can join FASO or Daily Paintworks, which are good values, but it is still online and not on my computer.  Plus I host Roger's website and David's.

Woe is me!

6 comments:

Joan Tavolott said...

On my Mac if I export a photo to my desktop I can then resize it by going to Tools and then "adjust size". I change it to 640 x 480. That's what I do for WC all the time.

Jo Castillo said...

Thanks, Joan. It’s my Mac that is down. I’m working on the iPad which is the problem.

Jennifer Rose said...

they are free photo editing software to use, if you just doing basic things like resizing, gimp and irfanview (not sure if there's a mac version of irfanview can do bulk image resize - handy if you need to resize a lot of images) you have many options besides photoshop

Jennifer Rose said...

oh check out affinity photo, one off payment and it has a very similar layout to photoshop, its a good program I would be getting if I had the money, and its not that much money (car payments come first though lol)

Jo Castillo said...

Jennifer Rose, I’m mainly just spoiled to my old stuff. Our slow internet in the boonies doesn’t make working online easy, so I like having it all on my computer. Maybe I just like to complain. ;-)

Jo Castillo said...

Jennifer Rose, I will check out affinity.


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I Grew up in a small town , Magdalena, New Mexico. I enjoy art and the pleasure other people get from my work. I always donate some of my sales and art to charities, especially for children. That started in Bolivia with Para los Niños. "I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." -- Winston Churchill

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