The Useful Thread
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- akiersky1
Buildify: Generative building creation in Blender, pretty awesome, and free!
- free?! damn... This coming winter, I'm gonna get bunker down and throw myself into Blender.shapesalad
- Centigrade2
A much better translator than Google.
- Yeah, i second this - I use this all the time.
I just wish they had a phone app :(Nairn - Yup, agreed, it's good.
Also, I wish I could paste website links in there, like with google translate, and get the fully translated website.Continuity - NiceGnash
- Yeah, i second this - I use this all the time.
- Wordsworth1
How can I photograph hard shadows on metal objects using a bare strobe, without clipping any spots on the said object?
If I move the light away to avoid hot spots, then the shadows appear too far apart and look weak or inconsistent, because of distance and angle.
And if I bounce the light or diffuse the strobe with a white plastic cover on naked bulb, an umbrella or soft box, then no more hard shadows.
I'm curious to learn this to photograph silver flatware, cutlery and glass objects.
Or the easy answer is to keep experimenting.
Samples,
- Oh, snoot and grid?Wordsworth
- You need a small light sourcegrafician
- Maybe this tutorial helps: https://www.youtube.…grafician
- I've seen this and forgot about it, I think its what I want, thanks graf!Wordsworth
- One of my clients have been demanding this a lot lately as influencers (non photographers) shoot with just 1 light setups with no modifiers. Followerstoemaas
- To do it on the cheap, just use direct sunlight and an iPhone...grafician
- hair light or fill light. matelic objects can pick up light super easy without filling the shadow at all.pango
- both pens in photo picked up the light bounced from the white surface. and you can still see the shadow.pango
- thanks pango, i'll give that a try.Wordsworth
- if the pen is too reflective. your hardest problem will be blocking out your reflection. or the room.pango
- Exactly, flatware and utensils is a bitsch to photograph, esp deep ladles and spoons etc. Oh well.Wordsworth
- Exposure bracketing?aliastime
- Damn. Yes ailas!Wordsworth
- grafician-3
https://www.are.na/lily-scowen/b…
screenshots of various brand guidelines
- grafician-4
"Version 4.0 of our FreeHand Illustrator plugin now available. New features: overset font scaling and choice of replacement font. Native support for Apple M1 chip."
- I liked FeeHand better in 1997fooler
- What is this? Don't get me excited!shapesalad
- plugin to open freehand files?grafician
- I still have a working install of Freehand in a Snow Leopard Server VM (last macOS with PPC and OS 9 Classic emu code)evilpeacock
- inteliboy1
On a Mac:
command-r on a video or image file rotates it, dont need to open in preview or PS.
- Sure it doesn't just rotate the preview? Bridge did this, it was annoying.jagara
- I still use the buttons in the column view info. Also, holding option and selecting rotate does the opposite direction.evilpeacock
- hans_glib1
couldn't find a "design is fucked" thread so it might as well go here:
https://ui8.net/ultimate-logo-cr…
Logo Shape Pack
1,000+ awesome pre-made vector shapes to create world-class logos.- Logo Modernism²imbecile
- Be patient, hans.
Bennn will be in here soon, with his yearly 'Design is Dead' wolf-crying.Continuity - scraped directly from the US patent and trademark office databasemonNom
- PhanLo8
- Or animate your own scribbles :-)PhanLo
- This is awesome. Txnbq
- Some fun ones in there :-)PhanLo
- alright, gotta give this one a try.dbloc
- Dope.sea_sea
- This is awesome thanks! I just made one from a cat my daughter drew and it was the most cursed thing I ever made.Cosmodrome
- ❤PhanLo
- it had to be done: https://i.imgur.com/…Krassy
- pablo282
Read twitter without login constraints: https://nitter.net/
- pablo280
- https://www.aliexpre…pablo28
- +1: Prevents people from middle squeezing.CyBrainX
- nb0
Need a good, simple image sharing service that
- works on iOS
- can strip my data from the pic before uploading
- is somewhat anonymous
- easy to copy url from iOS and paste on QBN (unlike Imgur)
- grafician2
- why the DVs?! This is glyphs for Ai
best plugin since Fontselfgrafician - https://www.fontself…grafician
- Niiiiicefyoucher1
- why the DVs?! This is glyphs for Ai