kawazu

Considering "leaving behind" again... Can't really remember how many "photo" or "art" communities I have been through the last couple of years, fotolog.com, flickr.com and eventually dA then and now.... And I remember, after all, not to really stay in one place like that for all too long so far. Fotolog, sooner or later, turned into a narcissistic place for people to share headshots of themselves it seems, and asides that in terms of features never really managed to be on par with other platforms. Flickr, a very nice and friendly platform when it started, grew stranger and stranger after being acquired by Yahoo!, until they eventually decided

Moving to a new flat sometimes is not that easy given you used to spend quite some years of your life in the "old one", and now are suddenly about to completely get started anew somewhere else, moving over all your things, living out of boxes for a while until things finally are all set-up again. Even more, moving to a flat just across the street is a feeling which is just strange in a very special way if you got to know the person that moved into your "old" flat after you left. That's when you look out of your window, watching the light behind those windows on the opposite where you used to live just a few days ago, and you catch yourself po

another thing's different comparing gimp 2.3.x to 2.2.x: the "cutter" tool now acts... different, to say the least. in the end, again I guess it's all about learning, they merely changed it to behave more or less "intuitively", more or less similar like in other imaging applications. only bad thing is: the "from selection" option is gone, it's impossible now to do a rectangular selection and then cut it out simply using the "from selection" button... or at least, if the option's there, I haven't yet found it... :o