~An-Archivist

Current Residence: Chicagoland
Favourite movie: Blade Runner
Favourite band or musician: Jerry Garcia, Patti Griffin, Susan Tedeschi, King Crimson
Favourite artist: Peter Bloom, Johannes Vermeer, Kelly/Mouse
Favourite poet or writer: Mikhail Bulgakov
Favourite style of art: pointilism
Operating System: XP, Ubuntu, FreeBSD
MP3 player of choice: Nano
Favourite cartoon character: Samurai Jack
Personal Quote: Now that's just wrong!

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~eglers Feb 1, 2010, 2:20:09 AM

I thought I would start another string of comments between us! So, hello.

~An-Archivist 2 days 12 hours ago

Hi there! It's has been a while since we trade messages, even though i come in here fairly often to pick up a new desktop background or to see if you have any new art uploaded. It's good to see you are still creating.

How's the laptop? Any problems? If so, just let your mom know and I'm sure she'll let me know.

Have you finished your college hunting. I would think so, since the deadlines are close or already past. Where are you applying? So far we have gotten into Grinnel (in Iowa) and Indiana (in Indiana of course). We are hoping (I think) for Carelton in Minnesota and Oberlin in (Ohio). I think my son is torn about wanting to move farther out of state and have the comforts of home within striking distance. So, we'll see.

I hope you are enjoying your last winter as a child (in the eyes of the law, if not your own!). I think of you and the other wone who thinks I am strange more often than you would guess. Do stay in touch.

Cheers!

~eglers 1 day 5 hours ago

Hello!

The laptop is fantastic! I can't seem to install my tablet properly, though. =/ Everything else is pretty great though, I really love it.

I am done looking for colleges basically and am waiting to hear back from Stanford and NYU. I got into Manhattanville, which is pretty cool. I also kind of started considering Morraine Valley for a semester... It's really iffy though. I'll let you know what I decide on, though.

Also, I am definitely enjoying my last winter as a child, as you put it!

I really hope your son gets into the rest of the colleges he's waiting to hear back from and makes the best choice for him as far as distance from you guys goes.

~An-Archivist Oct 4, 2009, 3:17:03 PM

First of all, make sure you open Photoshop using the tablet's pen itself, NOT the mouse. Then double check that you have Pen Pressure ticked in the brush setup panel. Refer back to this tutorial for further help

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So moral of the story, start CS4 w/ your tablet and pen and DO NOT!!!! move your mouse for ANY reason unless you feel like restarting CS4. This is a huge issue for me as i usually do several things even while drawing. It seems like such a simple fix, i mean if Photoshop is having issues "remembering" the settings for a device, that would imply it knows them at some point and can identify that single device and associate those settings with it no? Why not then SAVE them even in memory, then when i draw with the mouse it can say, "Oh he's using the mouse, load those settings!" Then when i go back to my stylus, "Oh he's using the stylus load those fantastic pressure sensitivity settings" seems rather intuitive and quite possibly incredibly simple to me. Plus it would be completely transparent to the user which is always great when things magically "just work."

~eglers Jul 18, 2008, 6:14:20 AM

Happy late birthday!

~An-Archivist Jul 19, 2008, 4:22:24 PM

Your mom told you??? I don't really celebrate the day, especially as my hair has gotten grayer and my step slower. But thanks, cutie!

~eglers Jul 19, 2008, 9:49:44 PM

Haha. Yeah, she told me. She wanted to go see you but we had only one car and she didn't want to use my gas. And I think I needed it for something. I'm not sure. I have bad memory.

~An-Archivist Aug 7, 2008, 7:48:04 PM

I talked with your mom briefly today about a teaching job. Hope she has good luck. Almost as important she told me you were not feeling well. I hope it's passed by the time you look back in here and you are bright eyed and smiling again.