June 17th, 2009 by Trevor

Hey guys!  As you can see I decided to spice up the home page a little bit.  Every time you click the refresh button it’s going to randomly draw out one of several pre-loaded images to put as the background.  I decided that the old one was just a little bit too dry (though I did like the marquee idea.  That was good while it lasted .

I’m also glad to say that I finally got ADOBE photoshop.  I’ve been using Corel photo-paint for years now, and didn’t know the difference between the two until I finally got Adobe version and noticed how much better it really is.  My computer isn’t the fastest thing on the block (2ghz processor, 2 gigs of ram… I don’t remember how good my video card is at the moment), but it’s able to handle these programs pretty well.  The thing that I notcied is that Adobe is better at using the resources of the compter than Corel.  Some might argue as to why that is, and that on THEIR machine Corel is faster, but on mine Corel takes forever to load filters, and sometimes it just crashes altogether.  So if you’re going for speed and efficiency, Adobe is the way to go.  I’m sold

Okay, after reading that last paragraph I feel like I’m not giving Corel enough credit.  Corel really is awesome, and it’s much cheaper than the Adobe stuff.  I bought the Corel 12 Graphics Suite for $100 (as a student, mind you), and the Adobe equivalent was about $350-$400.  Honestly, the two programs are about 80% similar in terms of capabilities, and some might say that the Corel stuff is a little more user-friendly.  And if you have a fast computer, you might not even notice a difference in the speed of the two.  The biggest problem is that people won’t look at you seriously if you put on your resume that you know how to use Corel Photo-Paint and Draw as opposed to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The industry standard is Adobe.  Period.  If you don’t know Adobe, you don’t know anything.  Goodbye.

Gimp is just ridiculously slow on my computer.  I understand that it’s made for linux users, but it would be nice if it would work just as well on a computer that is owned by a non-computer programmer.  At least it’s free :/

Lastly,  my Joy shirt is still up for sale, and the good people over at the goodjoe sent me a coupon code to get 10% for anybody who’s buying for the first time.  This one actually printed quite nicely; I’m impressed with the quality of the halftones.

Here’s the discount code:  fa2d5d71b15b