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mx-sinisters · 1 year ago

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a step-by-step guide on how to make these edits requested by @elyonholic

programs; photoshop

ok ok this is like five tutorials in one so get comfortable. i'm gonna start with the tarot card graphic. create a 540 x 540 black canvas. download this template by @templatepsds. resize to fit your canvas, center it, and change the card number and suit. i used the font butler.

follow the guide in the template and add the photo you want as a clipping mask to the appropriate layer. if you haven't already colored the photo, you can add your adjustment layers as clipping masks on top of it. here's what it should look like;

group these layers and duplicate them twice for a total of three cards. add a black and white gradient map to two of them and change the opacity of the whole group to 80%. keep them behind the colored card and scoot them around to your liking.

go back to the colored card and edit the blending options > drop shadow. i kept the default settings and only changed the angle to 90. here's the final result;

the next one is the circle graphic. create a 540 x 540 black canvas. create a 490 x 490 circle and center it. duplicate this circle and rasterize the layer. you should have two circle layers, one shape and one rasterized. make sure the rasterized layer is on top and hide the shape layer.

create a 100 x 540 rectangle where you'd like the text to be. it should look like this;

add your paper tear textures along the height of the rectangle. you can find a bunch of free ones by searching "paper tear png" or "paper tear transparent".

once you have that aligned, ctrl + click the rectangle layer and delete the section of the rasterized circle. hide or delete the rectangle since we're done with it. here's where we're at;

now for the photo. add the photo you want as a clipping mask to the rasterized circle.

to make these sets more cohesive, i pull a color from the tarot card graphic to use it as a gradient map throughout. in this case it's red. any other adjustment layers can be added as clipping masks on top of the photo. here's what it looks like;

almost done. now we just add the text. again, i used the font butler. once you've got the text, center then duplicate it. keep one solid and edit the blending options > stroke of the duplicated text. i kept the default settings and only changed the size to 1. once you've done that, change the fill to 0% and scoot it down to wherever feels right. make sure it stays behind the solid text layer.

create two lines and center them to the solid text. scoot them so they're not touching the text. rasterize both line layers. ctrl + click the shape circle layer, not the rasterized circle layer! right click + inverse selection and delete the excess lines. here's the final result;

onto the square graphic. create a 540 x 540 black canvas. create a 490 x 490 square.

about a third of the way into your square, align your paper tear. for this one, i edited the blending options > drop shadow. the rest of the settings will depend on how much you want this to cover your text but make sure the angle is 180. it should look something like this;

ok ok photos. add the photo you want under your paper tear layer and resize it to fit within two-thirds of the square. ctrl + click the square layer then right click + inverse selection to delete the excess photo. you can add your adjustment layers as clipping masks on top of the photo. here we are;

last step is text. once you've got the text, center, and align it with the right side of the square. duplicate the text and edit the blending options > stroke. make sure the fill is 0%. move this so it's closer to the paper tear on the canvas.

duplicate the solid text, not the stroke text! move that once again closer to the paper tear so that it's slightly underneath it. it should look like this;

hide the square layer and, if you're dumb like me, change the text color to something that can actually be read on the black canvas LMAO anyway, here's the final result;

the gif edits are a little more complicated. i'll start with the quote gif. create your gif, crop it to 540 x 300, and color it however you want. i stick to black and white to fit the rest of the set. for gifmaking, i follow this tutorial.

create a 510 x 270 rectangle. set the fill to none and stroke to 2. it should look like this;

add the text and quotation mark. again, i used the font butler. the quotation mark can be made by editing blending options > stroke and changing the fill to 0%. both the text and quotation mark have blending options > drop shadow. i kept the default settings and only changed the angle to 30.

rasterize the rectangle layer. using the rectangular marquee tool, make a box around the text where you need to delete the stroke. make sure to give some space between the stroke and text so they're not running into each other. delete the stroke. here's the final result;

alright i saved the worst for last. ngl this mirror gif has given me multiple headaches. it's not that making it is hard but finding the right kinds of scenes for it actually takes years off my life. anyway, here we go.

create your gif and crop it to 540 x 300. duplicate your gif and edit > transform > flip horizontal.

fair warning this next part will take a lot of trial and error. move the gifs so that they mirror each other. i do this by making one of the gifs 50% opacity and scooting them around the canvas. this looks about right;

now that we've got the placement down we have to blend them. set your gif back to 100% opacity. add a vector mask to whichever gif you have on top. using the brush tool, set the size to 300 and the hardness to 0%. brush until you have something resembling this;

for coloring, i just use gradient maps, one black and white and one red and black to match the rest of the set. here's the same thing with coloring;

and you're p much home free. add the text and center it. surprise, i used butler again lol i edited it to have blending options > drop shadow too. i kept the default settings and only changed the angle to 30. here's the final result;

#stutorial

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ms-demeanor · 3 years ago

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Okay so you know how I'm constitutionally incapable of letting things go?

I'm still on about the Jake Parker Alphonso Dunn thing and I finally cracked and created a pacer account and downloaded the initial filing of the lawsuit. Here's my favorite quote from it:

"Pen and ink drawing, however, is not as inviting a drawing medium as pencil, especially for beginners or anyone new to drawing, for several reasons [...] This explains why there is a drastically limited number of comprehensive ink drawing instruction books and learning resources available today as compared to the hundreds, if not thousands, of pencil drawing books.

Upon information and belief, there are less than 10 widely known comprehensive ink drawing instruction books in the art community."

Every single link in that quote is a link to a comprehensive ink drawing book that is/was widely available. Even if you don't count the ones that are out of print (but are in libraries, art classrooms, and are available online) you're still looking at *at least* ten, one of which has been in continuous publication for 100 years and two of which are different books written by one author. Also I own two books that aren't even directly linked here (both about cartooning) that include comprehensive pen and ink techniques as part of a larger whole and cover materials materially similar to what Dunn is saying was plagiarized, and that's not even getting into the really specific and narrow "pen and ink animals" "drawing in ballpoint pen" "pen and ink landscape" "pen and ink for comics" "pen and ink and watercolor" "pen and ink and charcoal" books that are out there that also cover basic pen and ink technique in a pretty comprehensive way. There are so many pen and ink instruction books that attempting to open links to all of them in the various places that I found them crashed my browser.

He also really, really doubles down on "there is no functional difference between these sections and the layouts are identical" when A) there is a functional difference because Dunn wrote a technical instruction guide and Parker wrote a low-key how-to book for casuals that is primarily about motivation and mindset and B) Dunn's book has a strong vertical layout and Parker's is square.

It is making me bugfuck crazy that he's claiming these two layouts are duplicates.

One of these pages is twice as tall as the other. One has a centered brushstroke font as the header with descriptions under each of four tools; One has left-aligned text with a sans serif header and single-word descriptions next to nine tools. One has tools that are presented illustrated at an angle that points to the gutter of the layout, one has tools that point to the center of the page. We are, literally, not the same.

My second favorite quote from the lawsuit is this:

"Dunn has found many supporters online, who believe that Parker has committed plagiarism and infringed on Dunn's copyrighted works."

Friend, what your twitter followers think isn't legally actionable.

The suit claims that the uses of Dunn's work were numerous and far reaching, but looking at the images used in the filing it kind of looks like Dunn hasn't gotten a copy of the book and is still screencapping from the ten images on Amazon. Shoutout to this absolute maniac on Pinterest who not only did a side-by-side comparison of Inktober All Year and Pen & Ink Drawing but also compared Pen & Ink Drawing to a bunch of other ink illustration books. Also I'm pretty sure Inktober All Year Long is unreleased and the lawsuit is based on sales continuing until December 2020 but I can't find the book anywhere new or used and the few people who have reviewed it have claimed they got it because Amazon sent it to them on accident after delivery was cancelled and every seller that I can find that had links to it lists it as backordered or now has a 404 error for the book.

Here's another pertinent quote from the suit:

Authors instruct on pen and ink drawings in multiple ways. Dunn's work, however, is not the result of restating standard methods or formulae, but is his original expression born from his creativity.

I do continue to feel really, really bad for Alphonso Dunn, because it really seems like he spent a lot of time reinventing the wheel and is upset that a similarly popular artist is also making a wheel. Like, in the original video he REALLY fixates on the idea of "varying" strokes, and insists that the use of the word "varied" or "variable" must be plagiarized from him because he spent so long coming up with the right word to use for that technique - but the 100-year-old pen and ink instruction book I discussed earlier has a multi-page layout about varied strokes.

Anyway the lawsuit was filed in September of 2021 and so far it's been just a shitload of extensions to serve papers and motions to dismiss and motions to extend the time to respond to the motion to dismiss.

I don't think that Parker is perfect (I actually find him pretty annoying and I do agree that it is very questionable to claim exclusive ownership of an event that became popular because of millions of participants) and I don't think that Dunn is malicious, but in this case I do think that Dunn is wrong. This guy has a take on it that pretty much aligns with my opinion.

And I'm interested in the outcome of the case because a lot of the claims that Dunn made in his video and appears to reiterate in the case have to do with attempting to claim exclusive rights to teach art fundamentals using extant language, so that's actually pretty important!

Anyway I am going to continue to Be Weird about it.

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sango-blep · 4 years ago

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Hi ma’am sorry to bother but you do the most beautiful art and I think you said you use paint tool sai, I just got it and feel kinda lost, do you have some basic advice on how to use that?

I completely transitioned to clip studio last year but I used Sai for many years.

First "tip" if that's not already the case and if you can somehow afford it, buy the program! I had a pirated version for many years as a baby artist (and I know a lot of people still do) but bought it when I could, it's only one guy making and maintaining it, also one time pay! (it should be somewhere around 40$)

Then, in case you also didn't know that, I'd suggest downloading Paint tool sai2, if you have/buy the normal pts license, you can also activate pts2 with it, no extra cost! I believe it still runs as a "beta", but I used pts2 as my only art program for 2-3 years probably, so it's fully functional and has a whole bunch of new helpful features that pts1 does not have.( fonts, rulers, perspective tools, more layer modes, advanced brush settings and more)

I know that's probably not the kinda advice you were looking for so far, but I'm not sure if there's any general advice I can give you rn (unless you ask me anything specific), it just takes some getting used to like with any new program. Also looking up videos will probably be more helpful than written text.

And on a different note, even though Sai used to be my art program for many many years and I love it dearly, if you have some money you want to spare I'd almost recommend getting clip studio instead at this point. they have a 50% sale every couple months, which makes clip studio a 25$~ one time pay program. For that price it's simply unbeatable and an absolute behemoth of a program compared to sai. It can do so so many different things. Something like sai, which is a small program mainly focused on drawing and has very limited editing options, simply can't keep up anymore.

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rat-runner · 3 years ago

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I’m deleting my tiktok...

After months of being nagged by my friends, I finally downloaded TikTok a few weeks ago. I never had anything against tiktok…at least I didn’t before.

I honestly ended up liking the app way more than I thought I would and finally learned first-hand how addictive it could be. It quickly became part of my morning routine, just mindlessly scrolling through videos before starting the day.

Overall things were normal with the app until one day I suddenly got a notification telling me I got a new follower. I didn’t think anything of it…until I saw myself smiling back at me. Not only was the profile picture a picture of me but it was also a selfie I had taken the night before and decided not to post.

I immediately froze, feeling dread start to form in the pit of my stomach. I stared at the screen for what felt like ages. It was almost as if my mind couldn’t process what I was looking at, as if I was looking for a hidden solution that would make this all go away, something that would make this all make sense – but nothing ever came. In fact, somehow things only got worse.

Looking back, I should have deleted the app then and there…but I didn’t. At the time it strangely felt scarier to not check the account. So, my morbid curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on account name: “EUN-EYCON-EHOB-VES”.

The account’s description was just a bunch of random letters: “AINÓINCICI” with a smiley face at the end, somehow that small detail just made the whole thing more unsettling for me. I decided to take a screenshot in case I needed it as evidence for something later.

Again, I know I should have stopped then and there but I didn’t, I just couldn’t.

There were just three videos on the account. Each of the tiktoks had a black screen and were labeled from 1-3 in the preview, what was even weirder were that the numbers were a bright sparkly pink font. I started with “1”, though my thumb hovered over the screen for a few seconds, I mentally fought myself before finally giving in.

The first one was only a few seconds long; a shaky first-person view of someone walking through some woods at night, using a flashlight to light their way. If that wasn’t ominous enough, whomever was filming was either breathing heavily or loudly shivering, I couldn’t tell, and it made my skin crawl. Everything about the video felt off, despite it showing nothing, it felt as if I had just watched some sort of snuff film I wasn’t supposed to see.

I then felt my hands start to slightly tremble, my anxiety starting to rise as I reluctantly kept going. The second video was in the same perspective but this time the person was filming a small apartment complex, releasing a shaky breath while zooming in on a certain balcony. it took me a few seconds but once I realized what I was staring at my heart skipped a beat.

It was my balcony, my apartment building and that’s when I connected that the woods from previous video was in fact, the trail near my place. To say that my heart was racing would be an understatement, I was starting to feel lightheaded and fucking terrified. My mind screamed at me to run, to do something, anything! But my body was frozen in place. I didn’t know what I was more afraid of, what I had watched so far or what remained for me in the final tiktok.

I don’t remember clicking it but suddenly “Part 3” was playing and what I saw still haunts me to this day.

I immediately saw myself, wearing the same outfit from earlier. I’m cooking dinner, completely unaware as someone films me through my balcony’s glass door. The person zooms in on me, the camera much shakier this time around as their breathing suddenly gets more aggressive…it’s as if they’re excited. The violent camera shakes only adds to nauseum I feel, I feel like I need to hold back the bile starting to rise in the back of my throat.

They then point a gloved finger in my direction, breathing ragged when I notice them holding a photograph of me, one I’ve never seen before in the same hand. Finally, then, I hear something that makes something in me click; they quietly sing my name in an eerily high voice. I immediately closed my phone then and there, never watching the end of that god forsaken video.

The room feels completely off kilter, like I can’t stand straight, and I could throw up at any minute. But I somehow managed to call mom in my panicked state. Thankfully she’s on her way over and she’s called 911 but I can’t stop shaking you guys. I know my front door and balcony are locked but what if it’s not enough? What if they get in?

#mine #creepypasta #horror #creepy

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anjalena123 · 4 years ago

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Intuitive dashboard, quick navigation across all marketing software and apps.

Powerful email marketing templates for various niches. This makes it easy to generate more conversion, even if you are a novice.

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Here are the things I didn’t like about it:

The support is decent, but if you need solutions to complex marketing requirements, you’d better be buying the enterprise or Professional plan.

Deleted emails are still counted towards the invoice for the month.

The form builder is quite basic

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eloarei · 4 years ago

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About the process of creating a book (the not-writing part)

I was asked recently about if making a book was easy or tedious or whatever, and I realized that was actually something I’d like to talk about. I’d never done it before (and still I only have a little experience), but I’ve been teaching myself and it’s been... fun? Behind the cut (that’s still a thing, right?), I ramble about formatting, PDFs, fonts, and some other stuff. (Also pictures, though most of them are the same as the ones I posted yesterday.)

First of all, I had to pick a Print-On-Demand (POD) website. That was easy for me, because finding the website was actually what made me want to make the book. I used Lulu.com, which has worked very well for me the two times I’ve used it. (It has a bunch of bad reviews, but honestly I got just what I paid for both times. They apparently offer editing and marketing services; I can’t vouch for those because I only used the POD service. But personally I wouldn’t trust anyone to edit or market my book, let alone some randos on some website. They’re a POD site. That’s what they’re good at, so that’s what I use.) It would have been almost too easy if they just let me copy-paste the text to them, but understandably they wanted a PDF. PDFs are kind of the bane of my existence, but I downloaded a template from them (for a 6x9 inch novel, with appropriate margins) and then copy-pasted my fic into it using LibreOffice. (I’m so-so about LibreOffice, but it does create PDFs reasonably well.) From there... well, then I had to go through the process of reformatting it. I’d copied the text from my AO3, and that meant that it had spaces between every paragraph and no indents, which is how AO3 fics are typically formatted. It was a lot of Tab-Left-Down-Down-Down-Backspace-Backspace-Enter-Repeat. For 140k words, it took a few casual days. After the bulk of that was done, I realized the indents/tabs looked... weird? They were too big. ^^; Luckily there was a setting in LibreOffice to change them all automatically. I almost cried at the thought of having to do it manually haha. Adding data to the headers and footers came next. I chose to only add the page number to the footer, and nothing to the header. Normally people will have the author’s name on one side, and the book’s title on the other, but I skipped that for the time being. Not sure if I’ll do it for the ‘official’ release. (Somehow my footer ended up being too small, so that’s something I need to look into.) Next I had to pick a font and a font size. I decided to do something a little gimmicky: I have alternating chapters that take place in modern and historical times, so I chose different fonts to represent those chapters. For the historical chapters I chose “Century”, which is a serif font (meaning that it has little embellishments, like “Times New Roman”), while for the modern chapters I chose “Verdana”, a sans-serif font (meaning that it is sans/without the embellishments, like whatever font Tumblr uses). It’s typically agreed that novels are best in serif fonts, because it’s easier to read them for a long session. The embellishments make the letters blend together into visually recognizable words, which is apparently how we read, as opposed to looking at every letter individually. However, because I wanted to be quirky, more than half of my book is in sans-serif, which I’m just hoping doesn’t annoy people. I used Verdana size 11 and Century size 12. Even so, the Verdana still looks too large to my eye, so I’ll probably change it again. After that was mostly aesthetic formatting, which was the actual fun part. I tabbed down I think about 10 spaces at the start of every chapter, then went back up a space or two, increased the font size and changed the font to something slightly fancier and wrote the chapter title (which for me were just “Chapter Five”, etc). (UPON FURTHER SCRUTINY, apparently not all of my first chapter pages are tabbed down the same amount. ugh. ^^; They’re close but not identical. How messy.) Under the chapter titles, I simulated “drop caps” on the first phrase of the chapter, because I didn’t have a good drop caps font. I just did this by retyping the whole phrase in caps, and then changing the first letter to a slightly larger font size. Next were a few easy things: a title page, a few silly “praise for” pages of reviews I got from online readers (these probably won’t be in the “official” version; they just make me smile), a mock-up copyright page (mock-up because I don’t actually have a copyright or anything yet), a short dedications page (mine was just one sentence), and then an empty page so that the story text starts on the right, which is standard. I have bought another self-published book which otherwise looks pretty good, but it starts the story on the left page and it’s just so jarring. At that point, the PDF was pretty much done. I added a few other little touches, like some little fancy dagger icons during in-chapter scene transitions. I ended up with the “the end” page being on the left, which, again, is really awkward, so I found a chapter that only had like two lines on the last page, and went back in and deleted a handful of words in the chapter so that it would end on the previous page instead. THEN came the fun but agonizing part, as I’m not as much of a graphic designer as I sometimes wish. I had to make a cover. The other self-published book I bought looks really nice with a beautiful illustration on the front, but the spine and back had just tiny white text, and didn’t even include a synopsis. So I downloaded a template for a 6x9inch wrap-around cover, tossed it up in Photoshop, paint-bucketed it black, and went to work. I pasted in my synopsis in off-white sans-serif font about the same as my internal font, and bolded some of the key words for... ease of skimming and/or funsies? At the top I added a short dialogue exchange from the first chapter that I thought represented the story as a whole, chose a different font that stood out, and gave it a red shadow so it would stand out more. For fun I added some faint red blood-splatters behind the text. For the front I chose a big bold block-letter font in off-white, then gave it a red and a yellow shadow so it would stand out. I rasterized the font (turning it into a picture), and then used the tool to highlight the letters, and splashed some red blood-splatters on them. I did the same for the spine. (Though really what I should have done was copy the logo from the front and resize it. Silly me. Now the two logos don’t match.) I used Unsplash.com for a few free photos that I quickly manipulated into a passable cover art. Ultimately, I would like to have something either professionally photographed, edited, or drawn, but what I found was vaguely similar enough to what I wanted that I figured it’d do for now. Maybe the last thing I had to do (besides uploading it all to Lulu) was decide on a pen-name! I ended up going with L.A.Rayborn, instead of my legal name. I used my legal first two initials, but chose my birth surname (which is twice removed from my legal name, since I was first adopted and then married). To be perfectly honest, the reason I chose not to use my legal name is mostly because I don’t want to associate my in-laws with possibly-sensitive content that they probably wouldn’t like. SO. Then it was done, and I uploaded it to Lulu, and chose a few options on the site, such as cream pages instead of white, and matte exterior finish instead of gloss. (I highly suggest the cream for novels, but the matte is really just personal preference.) I paid them (I ended up getting it printed and shipped to me for under $20), and then about 2 weeks later I had the 400 page darling in my hands, ready to be eviscerated with a set of neon hi-lighters! After this current round of edits, I already know there’s a ton of stuff I’m going to have to fix (and this is to say nothing of the story). 1. The font is slightly too large, but could probably use a 1.5 or maybe 1.2 spacing between lines. I’ll have to fiddle with it, and see what others do. 2. The back cover text is too close to the edges to really look good. 3. The page numbering just looks odd for some reason. 4. Figure out how to get the page numbers to stay off the copyright and dedications page, etc. 5. MORE THAN ANYTHING, I need to change the... I’m not even sure what to call it? I need to make the text space out evenly so that it creates a block on each page, rather than creating messy ridges on the right margins. I didn’t even think of this until I got the book and started comparing it to professional books I’ve read and enjoyed. It seems like a very rookie mistake.

(lol I’m in the process of changing the main character’s name, which is why the crappy MS Paint edits.) PHEW, that was long. But hopefully my journey was at least a little insightful. Please do let me know if you have any thoughts, questions, or suggestions about how I could better format the book for the “real” printing!

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hydrus · 5 years ago

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I had a great week. There are a bunch more Qt fixes, and a few other things as well.

I have fixed a bunch more bugs in the Qt code. We are getting to the end now--this is mostly smaller stuff like an unusual dialog button not working, but I have fixed another important memory leak that was causing some backend not to be deleted correctly when a media viewer closed on a video. This should radically reduce memory use for some heavily used clients.

Some windows that were large, or could expand to be, like the options dialog on some pages, were sizing off the edge of the screen. This should be fixed now, and a variety of child-window initial size calculations should be a bit more accurate--Qt manages window size a little differently than wx, and the additional buffer represented by the window title frame and border was not being taken into account.

The menubar menus should work a little snappier this week. Things like the rapid 'pending (xxx)' menu updates when a downloader is importing files with tags. The whole UI should get a little latency benefit from this during these high-traffic times.

I also gave the layout and scaling another go on clients that use UI scaling (when you tell your OS to display UI at >100% on a monitor) on high dpi displays. The experiment from last week did not go how I wanted, with pixelly scaled-up thumbnails, so I have reworked that and fixed the taglist, which was crunching tags together on these displays.

the rest

For users who have been trying to download from unreliable or tight servers, the network engine now handles connection errors and 'server was busy due to low bandwidth' errors separately, and has separate delay time options for both of these under options->connection.

There's a new danbooru login script. They apparently changed their cookies a little. If you use a danbooru login and have had trouble, please make sure your credentials carried over to the new script and give it another go.

For users who have complicated file storage failures and need some specific recovery options, there are now new jobs under the file maintenance system to quietly delete bad files from storage without affecting the db file record, and also to re-download files that are missing or broken if they have known urls. These jobs are experimental and only useful for certain file recovery scenarios, but if you have been waiting on something like this, please give them a careful go and feel free to ask for help.

full list

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disabled the failed legacy high dpi scaling mode experiment (which was scaling up thumbnails and media in an ugly way) and returned to font-size-based natural ui scaling as set by the OS. a couple of non-font things like bitmap buttons and various layout margins are too small on >100% UI scale, and the splash screen is borked again, but it looks clear again. I'll keep working on this

fixed the custom taglist at >100% UI scale, which was spacing its tags at the wrong text height. this should survive changing ui scale while the program is open and environments with multiple monitors at different ui scale

re-fixed a critical old media-viewer-close-on-video memory leak from wx code to qt code. this was also a cause for some child ffmpeg processes not being terminated

fixed the media viewer not redrawing correctly when the media size completely exceeds the canvas window size

fixed the loading of the shortcut edit panel when the shortcut set a tag

fixed some url class edit path component ui

fixed and cleaned up some 'safe window size/position' calculations that were missing out the total frame geometry, meaning some dialogs were not moving up and left enough to show entirely on screen, and dialogs with parent-dimension gravity were not calculating initial size accurately

fixed focusing on the already-open manage tags text input when you hit 'manage tags' on a canvas with a manage tags dialog already open

fixed the html formula rule edit ui actually rendering html tag labels, lmao

updated boot-password entry to use the normal hydrus text entry dialog, and fixed a hydrus password cancel not setting a 'clean' exit for the next boot

fixed page layout splitter sash positions not resetting nicely from the menu command

fixed keyboard delete in the manage urls dialog

popup message titles are now in bold

popup message titles should now multiline correctly and fill available width

the popup messages manager should now set its min/fixed width more sensibly

subscription popups now will be wider if space is available

wrote a new class to manage better asynchronous updates for future Qt ui presentation

the file, pages, and pending menubar menus, which all require a db hit to generate, now operate on this new update class. all three should update faster when able and more politely and smoothly wait when the db is busy

reduced some accidental blocking in an old ui-update routine that kicked in when it was running hard

if the media_viewer frame type is set not to remember its 'last size', it will now instantiate with a small min size

when pasting new queries into a sub, if there are more than 5 or 50 that are already in or new, they will be rendered in a more compact way in order to stop the notification dialog growing too tall

improved stability of page update, splash screen update, and perhaps pubsub update

new file maintenance jobs:

added a new 'check for missing files' file maintenance job, where if the file is missing and has urls, those urls will be queued up in a new url downloader for redownload. the file record is not removed, preserving archive/inbox and import time

added a new 'check for invalid files' file maintenance job that does the same deal as above with an additional expensive byte-for-byte content check if the file is not missing

added a new 'check for invalid files' file maintenance job that only cares about invalidity--if the file is present and invalid, it is moved out but the file record is not removed

the rest:

network jobs that receive low-bandwidth error codes from the server now use a separate wait routine (previously, they piggybacked on the connection fail retry system). they have a separate cog-menu action to override these waits

the time delay multiple for connection errors and serverside bandwidth problems are now editable under options->connection. old default was 10 seconds base, now 15 and 60 seconds respectively

updated the danbooru login script

improved the precision of the thumbnail size estimate in database migration

the alphabetisation of a url class's GET paramaters on normalise is now optional. it is a new checkbox on the url class edit panel

when a default object fails to load from a png path, a simple error is now written to the log

misc cleanup

next week

I got hit by some IRL stuff right at the end of this week, including some Thanksgiving surprises, so I couldn't fit in the new downloaders I wanted to, but I have some fixes for pixiv tag search and twitter video download waiting to be added. I also couldn't get to Qt theming again, nor macOS tab DnD! So, I'll focus on those first thing so they definitely get done.

Otherwise, next week is scheduled to be a 'medium size' job week. I would like to get a long-planned overhaul of subscription data handling done. Subs are getting huge and clunky for many users, and I'd like to have them load into their dialog and do their normal work much faster, with much less CPU and HDD involved.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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worthyenergylife · 2 years ago

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Note: If you would like to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, kindly visit the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC page.

A feature only available in the paid up version, Adobe Reader X now lets you highlight and add notes to text.

There is less clutter, giving a easier way of viewing the content of PDF files.

The new Read Mode is used when a PDF document is opened within a browser.

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Reader X has now a new security feature called sand-boxing.

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" Adobe Reader 9" suggest that those automatic emails are quite outdated now, can anyone help? Which is the generic page asking me to apply to distribute Reader, which I just did. exe format, click here." redirects to this address: Sadly the URL in " To download the English language version of Adobe Reader 9 with in compressed. Fair enough, I requested access to the Reader, got one email to confirm my details, then another one which should contain link to the. Latest version forces me to register for distribution of Adobe software. It used to be simple and last version I got was 11.02. I'm trying to download offline installer of latest Adobe Reader for bulk installations on PCs in my company.

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templified · 6 years ago

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Inverto has a simple and crisp style that puts all the attention on your products. If you’d like to integrate a high-quality WordPress blog on your shop website, Inverto is a great this team is a little bit different than many of the others in this collection, it’s got a very Stark black and white design, it really allows your content to shine through. It’s sort of the monochrome look that may not be for everyone, but if you’ve got modern products to sell, I think that it does a pretty good job of presenting them in a clean and clear way. It certainly focuses all the attention on your content and there are relatively few distractions. This theme also comes with a high-quality portfolio and personal blog setup, a crucial detail that many e-commerce themes overlook. This responsive theme has one click demo data import, a dedicated support for him and it supports all the most popular plugins to help make your blogging life easier..

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A question that any web developer had to ask themselves at some point in their life. It describes my journey through assets optimization with some examples, but mostly ideas to start your own research. Enjoy!

Why optimize assets?

1. Cost

Some of my websites are centered around images. A lot of images. When I launched them, I naively hosted everything, including static files and uploaded images, to a single EC2 instance. As soon as it got some users, my bill, unsurprisingly, skyrocketed.

2. Speed

While it's easy to jump to the conclusion that most people have modern computers and fast, reliable internet download speed, one must not forget that we are also still in the middle of the mobile era. 4G is slowly getting better, but can still be slow and costly for your users. Though the cost is not on your side, loading large image files on mobile data can affect user experience and drive your users away.

On my side, I also have to take into account the international aspects of my websites. They target English speakers worldwide, and in particular, attracts the South East Asian crowd, which, unfortunately, in many cases, has to rely on slow and unreliable internet.

How to optimize assets?

After years of running these images-centered websites, I went through a bunch of steps, one at a time, to reduce costs and improve user experience. In this article, I'll go through some ideas you can follow yourself, so, unlike me, you can skip the hassle for your future self and have everything ready now!

This article is purely based on my own experience and might not be 100% complete. As I continue on my journey to optimization, I'll make sure to update it. Feel free to comment your own ideas as well!

1. Basics

These should be pretty obvious to anybody with a tiny bit of experience making websites, but I'll list them anyway, for exhaustivity.

Some are more general assets related and not just images, and some might not make a big difference based on your usage. If you're not familiar with them, use them as a base to do your own research!

Resize your images

If your image is resized to 300x300px using CSS, might as well store your image in 300x300px, or you're loading an image that's bigger than needed.

Even in a responsive design, you generally know the limit at which your image can be displayed. For example, if you're using a Bootstrap container and have your image use img-responsive, you know that your image will never be displayed at more than 1170px width.

For SEO purpose, you might want search engines to have access to the high quality image, allowing your website to show up first in Image Search. What I personally do is provide an a href link to the full size image. This way, most of your users will only load the small version, but the larger version will still be available for both your users and search engines.

Use images sprites

This method is used widely, not just for websites, but also for game optimization. The idea is to put many small images loaded frequently (navigation icons, for example) into a single image, loaded once.

You then use a div with this image as a background, properly positioned to only show the image you want.

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Use SVG

Not only are SVG files much smaller, they can also be upscaled infinitely! Of course, SVG files won't work on photographs, but they're perfect for simple icons.

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Use fonts for icons

Just like SVG files, vector fonts can also scale infinitely and are pretty light weight, making them a great choice for icons around your website.

Many fixed sets of commonly used icons are available, the most famous one being FontAwesome.

If you want to make your own selection, I recommend using FlatIcon, which generates font files and the CSS that comes with it for you. That's the one I personally use the most and I recommend it.

FlatIcon doesn't let you provide your own icons, but Fontastic does, so you might want to consider it instead.

Minify your CSS and Javascript

Not related to images, but when optimizing for the web, it's better not to cut corners. Minifying is a well known method to reduce your files sizes by removing white space and renaming variables. It makes the source files very hard to read for human beings, but perfectly fine for your browser.

Many tools exist to minify your static files, including desktop clients, command line tools, and even online tools. Many full-featured deployment / continuous delivery tools and libraries come with minifiers as well.

I personally let CloudFlare minify static files for me, which I'll talk about below.

For websites that rely heavily on Javascript libraries, you might want to look into WebPack, which bundles your static sources for you, among many other features.

Use CDNs

CDN hosted files are optimized by being hosted closer to your end user and being heavily cached at multiple levels. Using CDNs also allows a user using multiple websites that use the same libraries to only load it once for both.

I personally use cdnjs, but many free CDNs exist for the most common Javascript and CSS libraries.

2. Storage: S3

After my EC2 nightmare bill I mentioned earlier, my first step to save money was then to host all my static files and uploaded content to S3.

S3 Storage is cheap, but you still pay for bandwidth, which we'll talk about below.

If you know your target demographic, you can pick the right region to speed up loading on your users’ end.

Below is the pricing for S3 in North Virginia. You can check the current pricing and pricing for different regions directly on AWS official website.

As you can see, S3's cost for storage is close to nothing.

You may also pick different storage options such as Standard Infrequent Access if your files are not loaded frequently (duh).

Glacier is another long-term, infrequent access storage. However, I do not recommend it for the web, as storage will be cheap but accessing your files will be very pricey. It's useful for archives of rarely used and not easily accessible files, such as old logs or backups.

Creating an S3 bucket is easy as ABC, so I won't go through that today.

Updating your static images/files on S3

For small, infrequently updated websites, you can opt for manual update. Whenever a file needs to be updated, open the AWS console and upload your files there. That's it!

If your website gets updated frequently, uploading them manually can be a hassle. I suggest to look into Continuous Delivery and the recommended tools for it depending on the web framework you're using. Many web frameworks also come with tools or libraries to automatically update your S3 bucket. GitHub can also provides hooks whenever you push to master, for example. Continuous Integration tools like Travis-CI can make use of these hooks to upload artifacts to S3 after a successful build.

User-uploaded files on S3

Files uploaded by your users should also go straight to S3. Many libraries exist for most web frameworks that let you configure your AWS key/secret and a bunch of other parameters to upload to S3.

If you use a server-side web framework, you may also consider reducing the load on your server by letting your front-end (ie Javascript) handle S3 uploading.

Frequent problems:

I want to use my own domain

You'll need a separate sub-domain for your assets (For example, website.com → s.website.com).

Your S3 bucket should be named exactly like your sub-domain.

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Files get cached by your users’ browsers. You can ask your users to force reload the page, but it's not convenient, and if you opt for the caching solution I'll explain below, that won't work either.

To solve this, I append a version to my files. For example, instead of:

I'll load:

The "version" variable can be something you manually update either per file or for all files, or something provided by your continuous delivery library/tool. Some frameworks have built-in support

Make sure the "version" is not always different (such as using the current date and time, which I've seen recommended multiple times on StackOverflow), and only changes when it needs to. Because if it's always different, files will always be reloaded, losing the whole point of caching files, and pretty much the point of this article :)

Files are not accessible (Permission denied)

When you upload your files on S3, make sure you grant public access to the files.

I get cross origin errors

If you're loading fonts or dynamic javascript files though other javascript files, you'll need to update your Cross-Origin policy under your S3 bucket settings, which is currently under "Permissions" then "CORS configuration".

Here's an extensive example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <CORSConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"> <CORSRule> <AllowedOrigin>*</AllowedOrigin> <AllowedMethod>GET</AllowedMethod> <AllowedMethod>HEAD</AllowedMethod> <AllowedMethod>POST</AllowedMethod> <AllowedMethod>PUT</AllowedMethod> <MaxAgeSeconds>3000</MaxAgeSeconds> <ExposeHeader>Content-Length</ExposeHeader> <AllowedHeader>Authorization</AllowedHeader> </CORSRule> </CORSConfiguration>

In most simple cases, you won't need ExposeHeader and AllowedMethod POST and PUT, so make sure you only add the configurations you need after testing.

Alternatives to consider:

Google Cloud Storage

3. Bandwidth: Caching with CloudFlare

CloudFlare has a free tier that comes packed with many incredible features that make managing your own website a bliss.

Though I originally used it to help counter DDOS attacks, I won't go over that nor any other CloudFlare features because it's not the point of this article. Visit CloudFlare's website to learn more about it.

CloudFlare caches your assets, for free.

Registering to CloudFlare is extremely easy. Just follow the guide you see when you sign up, which will ask you to change your DNS servers, and you're good to go.

Once CloudFlare is configured, visit the "Caching" and "Speed" tabs to see the options and change them to suit your needs.

I mentioned earlier that some of my websites are image-centric. Here's an example:

Above is one of my websites that gets on average around 100 000 monthly unique visitors.

With CloudFlare properly configure, around 97% of the time, the content loaded by my users comes from CloudFlare's cache and doesn't even hit my S3 server.

That's around 6.6 TB of bandwidth saved per month. Considering that S3 storage is cheap, but bandwidth makes most of the cost, this means I save around $600 / month, which for a small website like this is very significant.

I also mentioned earlier that minifying your Javascript and CSS files might not be much, but bandwidth can easily add up, so you don't want to cut corners on that.

Well, good news: CloudFlare also has an option to automatically minify these files for you!

Be careful when minifying HTML if you're using "pre" tags or "white-space: pre", or in other words, if you want to keep you new lines. The minifier will collapse any instance of multiple new lines into a single new line, which can visually affect your website.

4. Optimize images with close to lossless compression

I mentioned earlier that some of my websites are images-centered. To put that into perspective, the most loaded page of one of my website loads around 100 images, all of which around 800px width.

For this reason, I had to go one step further to optimize my images and ensure that the file size is as small as it could possibly be, without sacrificing how images look.

I've been using TinyPNG for years to save on bandwidth for most of my websites.

TinyPNG is proprietary software provided through an API. It comes with a price tag, but unless you process a lot of images every month, you won't have to worry about, because the first 500 compressions are free.

You can calculate how much it could potentially cost you using the price calculator.

On average, it will reduce the size of your PNG and JPG images to 60% less without affecting it to the naked eye.

Multiple alternatives exist, notably the free open-source python library and command line tool Crunch.

I have tested the same files using Crunch to compare how it performs:

Though it performs significantly less than TinyPNG, it still averages at around 47%. It's also worth noting that it is much slower, though I don't believe you should worry about this for reasons I'll explain below.

TinyPNG also has many open libraries available making it very easy to integrate with any language of your choice.

Also keep in mind that even though you don't need to pay per compression when using Crunch, you'll still need to pay for the extra processing power - which should be cheaper, but not free.

Regardless of which option you go for, keep in mind that image optimization is slow and therefore should be done asynchronously.

To do so, you can:

Use a queue such as RabbitMQ or a good old crontab

Use AWS Lambda or an equivalent

Conclusion

Many solutions and tools exist, and this is really just a base to help you get started with the right mindset.

Make sure your understand your needs and your budget, your target and how you perform through analytics and monitoring, and prioritize based on that.

Happy programming!

TL;DR

Reduce your files' size to the minimum required, and go further in compression if you can

Keep in mind storage and bandwidth

Use smart, optimized and geographically well-chosen storage solutions

Cache, cache, and cache again

Images credit: Icons designed by Freepik, Icon Monk and turkkub from Flaticon and licensed by CC 3.0 BY. Screenshots and logos from AWS S3, CloudFlare and TinyPNG come from their respective websites.

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F3, a Stories-style Q&A app for Gen Z teens, raises $3.9M

F3, an anonymous Q&A app targeting Gen Z teens which blends a Tinder-style swipe-to-friend gamification mechanic, Stories-esque rich media responses and eye-wateringly expensive subscriptions to unlock a ‘Plus’ version that actually lets you see who wants to friend you — has raised a $3.9M seed round, including for a planned push on the US market.

The Latvian team behind F3 are not new to the viral teen app game having founded the anonymous teen Q&A app Ask.fm — which faced huge controversy back in 2013 over bullying and safety concerns after being linked to a number of suicides of users who’d received abusive messages. Not that they’ve let that put them off the viral teen app space, clearly.

Investors in F3’s seed round hail from the Russian dating network Mamba (including the latter’s investor, Mail.ru Group) and a co-investor VC firm with a marketing focus, called AdFirst.

Alex Hofmann (former musical.ly president) and Marat Kichikov (GP at Bitfury Capital) are also named as being among those joining the round as angel investors.

F3, which launched its apps in 2018, has 25M registered users at this point — 85% of whom are younger than 25.

The typical user is a (bored) teenager, with the user base being reported as 65% female and 60% Europe / 20% LatAm / 20% Rest of World at this point. (They’re not breaking out any active user metrics but claim 80% of users have been on the app for more than three months at this point.)

On the safety front, F3 is using both automated tools and people for content moderation — with the founders claiming to have learnt lessons from their past experience with Ask.fm (which got acquired by IAC’s Ask.com back in 2014, given them the funds to plough into F3’s development up to now).

“We’ve been solving problem of violating content in our previous company (Ask.fm), and now at F3 we’ve used all our knowledge of solving this problem from day one. Automation tools include text analysis in all major languages with database of 250k+ patterns that is continuously being improved, and AI based image recognition algorithms for detecting violating content in photos and videos,” says the founding team — which includes CEO Ilja Terebin.

“Our 24/7 content moderation team (8 in-house safety experts and 30+ outsourced contractors) manually reviews user reports and items flagged by automation tools,” they add.

However reviews of the app that we saw included complaints from users who said they’ve being pestered by ‘pedophiles’ asking for nudes — so claims of safety risks being “solved” seem riskily overblown.

Why do teens need yet another social discovery/messaging app? On that Terebin & team say the app has been tailored for Gen Z from the get-go — “focusing on their needs to socialize and make new friends online, ‘quick’ content in the form of photos and short videos, which is true and personal”.

“Raw & real” is another of their teen-friendly product market fit claims.

F3 users get a personalized URL that they can share to other social networks to solicit questions from their friends — which can be asked anonymously or not. (F3 users can also choose not to accept anonymous questions if they prefer.)

Instead of plain text answers users snap a photo or grab a short video, add filters, fancy fonts and backgrounds, and so on to reply in a rich-media Stories-style that’s infiltrated all social networking apps (most recently infecting Twitter, where it’s called Fleets).

These rich media responses get made public on their feed — so if an F3 user chooses to answer a question they’re also engaging with the wider community by default (though they can choose not to respond as questions remain private until responded to).

Asked how F3 stands out in a very packed and competitive social media landscape, they argue the app’s “uniqueness” is that the Q&A is photo and video based — “so the format is familiar and close to other social networks (‘stories’ or ‘snaps’) but in a Q&A style back-and-forth communication”, as they put it, adding that for their Gen Z target “the outdated text-based Q&A just was too boring”.

“We compete for eyeballs of Gen Z with Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram. Our key strength is that through the Q&A format one can make new friends and truly get to know other people on a personal level through the prism of ‘raw and real’ content, which is not central on any of those platforms,” they also claim.

In terms of most similar competitors, they note Yolo has seen “some traction” and concede there are a bunch of others also offering Q&A. But here they argue F3 is more fully featured than rivals — suggesting the Q&A feature is just the viral hook to get users into a wider community net.

“[F3] is a fully functional social platform, built around visual communication — users have content feed where they can view posts by people they follow, they can create photo/video content using editing tools in the app itself, there’s a messenger functionality for direct chats, follow-ships, content and user discovery. So for us, the anonymous messaging/Q&A format is just an entry point which allows us to grow quickly and get the users on our platform, but then they make new connections and keep engaging with their unique social circle they have only on F3, making it a sustainable stand-alone social network.”

Again, though, user reviews tell more of a raw (and real?) story — with plenty of complaints that there’s little value in the free version of the app (while F3 Plus costs $3.99 for 7 days; $8.99 for 1 month or $19.99 for 3 months), and questions over the authenticity of some anonymous questions, as well as complaints that other users they’re able to meet aren’t nearby and/or don’t speak the same language. Other reviews aren’t wowed by more of the same Q&A format. Others complain the app just feels like a data grab. (And the F3 ‘privacy policy‘ definitely has a detailed story to unfold vis-a-vis the tracking users are agreeing to, for anyone who bothers to dig in and read it.)

“This whole app is literally just like all the other apps. Just another copy cat that you still have to pay for,” runs one review from July 2020. “Don’t download.”

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