fatality_uk
January 30th, 2008, 08:42 PM
talking to the graphic designer about the new artwork for a brochure we are doing. He was sat there with his Mac G5, HUGE monitor and cool see through Mac mouse.
So I fired up my Asus dog of a laptop, one which he has sat gathering dust at home. 30 odd seconds later I had GIMP open, showing him a paste up that was done. Left that open and switched, using Compiz to another workspace, flashy cube effect :D
Opened a word (*.doc) and PDF and ran a MS presentation in that workspace and was able to flick back and forth "real" time between the two.
Then using my 3G card, connected to the net through KPPP, downloaded a 1 meg file, (quite quickly as it happened) for him.
After he tried using GimpShop to quickly alter a file (RAW), 30 seconds later, he asked, "Have you beefed that thing up? Runs great!! Mines just too slow to use now."
Me - "No, just standard Ubuntu Linux. Nothing modded!"
Him - "Ahh but that's just for programmers isn't it, Linux that is?"
35 minutes of OS chat later, he now has 2 CD's burnt for him with Brassero, his girlfriend.
But here's the thing. Until he asked, I never even thought of what OS I was using. I was just working, like every other day!
I just have one question!! I don't use GIMP that much, so he was asking about Photoshop file compatibility. I know it can open them, but does anyone know of any funnys with PSD files and gimp or is it usually ok?
He did ask me, so I said I'd ask here. I did tell him about the forums but he kind of sighed at that point!! ;)
So I fired up my Asus dog of a laptop, one which he has sat gathering dust at home. 30 odd seconds later I had GIMP open, showing him a paste up that was done. Left that open and switched, using Compiz to another workspace, flashy cube effect :D
Opened a word (*.doc) and PDF and ran a MS presentation in that workspace and was able to flick back and forth "real" time between the two.
Then using my 3G card, connected to the net through KPPP, downloaded a 1 meg file, (quite quickly as it happened) for him.
After he tried using GimpShop to quickly alter a file (RAW), 30 seconds later, he asked, "Have you beefed that thing up? Runs great!! Mines just too slow to use now."
Me - "No, just standard Ubuntu Linux. Nothing modded!"
Him - "Ahh but that's just for programmers isn't it, Linux that is?"
35 minutes of OS chat later, he now has 2 CD's burnt for him with Brassero, his girlfriend.
But here's the thing. Until he asked, I never even thought of what OS I was using. I was just working, like every other day!
I just have one question!! I don't use GIMP that much, so he was asking about Photoshop file compatibility. I know it can open them, but does anyone know of any funnys with PSD files and gimp or is it usually ok?
He did ask me, so I said I'd ask here. I did tell him about the forums but he kind of sighed at that point!! ;)