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don’t save as jpeg

as a former yearbook editor and designer, let me explain this further

if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well

BUT

please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality - this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.

this has been a public service announcement

justhere4coffee

I’ve replied to this once before but I see it’s doing the rounds again.

This is all utter bullshit.

I’m sorry but if your qualification is working on the school yearbook, you have no qualifications. Do not pretend otherwise. As a former professional photo manipulator for advertising brochures, I can say that you’re not comparing apples to oranges here - if anything, you’re comparing fruit to farmyard machinery:

JPEG is a lossy format. It is suitable for web imagery because it sacrifices detail for reduced file sizes, but in doing so it introduces artifacts that weren’t in the original; if you load a JPEG for editing, then save it as a different JPEG, then you’re adding more artifacts formed from those first artifacts. Do this often enough and you end up with a horrid glitchy mess that looks like a puddle’s reflection after a stone’s been thrown in. You’ve seen those memes that have 3 or 4 different “found at” tags along the bottom, that look like fingerpainted copies of the original? That’s why.

PNG is a lossless format that comes in two primary flavours, PNG-8 and PNG-24, which use 8 and 24 bit colour respectively. 8-bit colour is what you have in GIFs, a limit of just 256 different colours in a predetermined palette, usually automatically chosen by your software when saving. These files will look the same as GIFs, potentially with large patches of solid colour instead of the usual gradual shading seen in 24-bit imagery. This is usually better for small banners or pixel art, as it can yield smaller filesizes than GIF format. (There is an animated version called MNG but it has very little web support, hence the continued use of GIFs.)

PNG-24 is great for larger images where detail is as important as colour depth, as well as printable RGB images and (if supported by the client) full colour images with gradient transparencies. It most certainly does not make “the quality of the image pretty shitty,” as it preserves every nuance. File sizes can be smaller than JPEG for small images, or significantly larger for large images.

PDF is a container file, whatever you put into it will be pretty much preserved as it was, so you gain nothing but lose nothing.

TIFF is what you need to be using for archival or print-quality imagery. It has support for multiple layers, multiple colour channels (RGB as well as CMYK, which is essential for accurate print rendering), and everything is preserved exactly as it was seen on-screen when being composed. There are compressed versions available, they use similar methods to PNG in order to maintain detail without sacrifice; next to whatever your graphics program uses natively, this is the most interchangeable format available for professional use.

DPI is important only when used in combination with image dimensions; in and of itself it serves no purpose. If you make a brilliantly detailed 640x480 image & set it to 300dpi, you’ll receive a brilliantly detailed 2 inch x 1.6 inch print. This is great if you want to make a postage stamp, but not if you’re creating an A4 flyer! Determine the image’s dimension then set the DPI accordingly; 72dpi isn’t hideous especially for text-heavy work (it’s ~3 pixels per millimeter), and 150dpi can be suitable for many images. Unless you’re interested in photo realism, 300dpi is usually overkill - for our hypothetical A4 flyer, you’d need a file of 2490x3510 pixels for edge to edge printing, with a correspondingly high memory requirement and filesize even if using a compressed format.

Keeping the layers intact is utterly unimportant for print work unless you want to use a separated colour print method that requires multiple passes to lay down each ink. If you send a file with all the layers, masks, etc. off for printing you’re liable to get it sent back unactioned, as they won’t want to take responsibility for choosing the wrong elements for printing. Save your work with everything intact, then save a flattened copy especially for printing purposes - this is one of the reasons Save Copy As… is a common option in graphics manipulation software.

This has been a Public Service Rebuttal.

queensimia-deactivated20181215

FUCKING THANK YOU

As a designer who’s worked a few years for a newspaper, I cannot begin to tell you how much OP’s post (edit: response, technically) made me cringe. I would have killed to get a photo as a TIFF for once instead of having to tear apart PDFs only to find a 50x100px 72dpi shitty JPEG inside for the 5 millionth time…

JPEG and PNG are best suited for web formats (and it is perfectly fine to save your web version as JPEG, that’s what it’s goddamn for). You will make a designer cry if you send a web-safe JPEG for print, however. And if you have a vectorized logo saved as EPS (or even better, AI), you will make that designer’s year.

zeronekora

miss you

zeronekora

[commission] zeratul

Artanis: What are you writing?

Alarak: The Terrans want to know what kind of weapons we have. I'm letting them know it's private information.

Vorazun, looking over Alarak's shoulder: This just says 'fuck around and find out' in calligraphy.

yurimother

New Manga from the Author of 'My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness' Released in English

Yesterday, Seven Seas Entertainment released Kabi Nagata's newest autobiographical manga My Alcoholic Escape from Reality. This is Nagata's fourth autobiographical manga and continues her story from My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary.

The publisher describes the manga:

Nagata Kabi’s downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can’t stop drinking to soothe the ache of reality. After suffering from unbearable stomach pains, she goes to a clinic, where she is diagnosed with pancreatitis—and is immediately hospitalized. A new chapter unfolds in Nagata Kabi’s life as she struggles to find her way back to reality and manga creation in the wake of her breakdown.

The manga is available digitally and in paperback. It is translated by Jocelyn Allen, who translated all of Kabi Nagata's works, with adaptation by Lianne Sentar and lettering and retouch by Karis Page and Gwen Silver.

Kabi Nagata is a Harvey Award-winning author known for her devastating autobiographical works. Her stories focus on her struggles with mental illness, physical health problems, and her lesbian identity.

You can get My Alcoholic Escape from Reality today: https://amzn.to/3uIun0X

Reading official releases helps support creators and publishers. YuriMother makes a small affiliate commission from sales to help fund future coverage.

no-longer-another-bondi-blonde

He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia.

And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $ 20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals.

In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.

After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $ 50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them.

He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars.

In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.

Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others.

This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: Be a good person. ♥ ️

mysharona1987

obiwankenobii

Unskilled means requiring no training. It’s an objective statement that doesn’t have a negative connotation. An unskilled job is poorly paid because it can be done by anyone without any special skills.

orwellsunderpants

There are no jobs that require no training. There are no jobs that require no skills.

I worked as a dishwasher at a dorm kitchen when I was in college. Dishwashing is usually called an “unskilled” job, but someone had to train me to load the machine, how to run it, and what to do with the plates and things when they were clean, and I needed to learn how to do this efficiently so that the kitchen didn’t run out of plates during mealtimes. All of those things were skills I had to learn.

I worked on a sandwich line for a summer when I was in college. Food service is usually called an “unskilled” job, but someone had to train me how to make the sandwiches, how to prepare the salads, and how to prepare the desserts. I had to learn how to work with the folks in the prep kitchen, with the wait staff, and with the other people on my line. I had to be trained how to open and close, because sometimes I would get those shifts. I had to learn how to work quickly and efficiently so that our customers would get their meals in a timely manner, and so that everything was prepped and clean for the next shift. All of those things were skills I had to learn.

That whole “special skills” thing? It’s classist and probably racist.

Unskilled jobs are poorly paid because the employers can get away with it, and that’s pretty much the whole reason. They are permitted by our capitalist society to exploit workers, especially those workers who are most disadvantaged.

“Unskilled” workers make our food, take care of our kids and our elders, stock our grocery store shelves, clean the spaces we use, and do hundreds of other things that make our lives easier. “Unskilled” jobs require a fuckton of physical labor. Don’t those things merit good compensation?

Every job requires skills, every job requires training. And every job should be respected and have dignity, and should pay people enough to live on, and then some.

ladythatsmyskull

Look how fast the world economy crashed once the ‘unskilled’ labor had to stay home in the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic.

moonybyte

“Unskilled” simply means “you are expected to figure out how this works in less than a day” instead of “no worries, we teach you over 3 years how to use excel and a copy machine”.

When I sorted bills for my university, I got paid really well cause while I was only part-time, the job itself is not deemed “unskilled”. Despite me literally just sorting stuff by numbers. Look at a number, put it between other numbers. All day every day. I even was allowed to have as much coffee and tea as I liked from the office kitchen for free.

When I worked for Subway for a month, I had to learn within 2 hours:

exactly where and how to cut the bread to make both sides equal

what sauce to recommend with what topping

how much topping to scoop per half

what all the breads, toppings and stuff are called and being able to rattle them down on command

how to use three different vegetable cutters

how to use their oven (that thing has like 9 buttons that all do different shit and none of the buttons got ANY symbol or word on it, all are just black)

what the day’s special was for every day

what the price for stuff was without looking at the sign or being at the cash register

when to change the gloves (all the time, for every little shit)

I also had to go to a 2 hour food sanitary training before hand to give me a certificate so I was even allowed to work at Subways.

The fact that I got paid much better for doing stuff that some simple AI could do in triple the time is obnoxious. The fact that people think that if my full-time job would be “working in an university office” would be prestigious while a full-time job as a sandwich maker is “uneducated” is disgusting.

sandersstudies

I once worked in a university archive transcribing handwritten or typewriter notes into a computer. It was very easy and I learned to do it in one day. I could do it while listening to a podcast or music, and I was almost entirely left to my own devices. That was a “skilled” job.

Meanwhile, working in a Starbucks (“unskilled” labor) took me months of practice to perfect. I had to learn to make every drink on the menu, but also how to use the register, how to keep different areas of the store clean, how to prepare and date ingredients and brew hot and cold coffee, how to explain the menu to customers (knowing all the major ingredients of every item), how to promote different products, how to communicate with the team, how to use the ovens, and how to do all of it quickly while still being friendly, pleasant, and fast at all times. It took about a year to become reasonably good at every part of the job.

When I became a supervisor I also had to learn to handle cash responsibilities, inventory, management, working with vendors and partners, being aware of and improving measurements like sales and customer ratings, and coaching other baristas.

People don’t measure skilled and unskilled by how much training or education you had, it’s about whether you paid for that education or not - creating a barrier for those unable to pay for or access that kind of education.

30knight

A comic about the spectrum of responses to stress - we talk alot about the more extreme ends of this and trauma, but the more subtle and every day responses can be harder to spot. if we can understand our own and other’s responses better, problems Are easier to confront and blaming is less likely to happen :) hope it’s helpful!!

palmpetals

coming out to my brother was one of the nicest moments in my life

luxtenebre

I will reblog this all the time because this is the greatest validation comic I’ve seen

oh-honee-bee

🥺 this is soo cute!

slothful-rabbit

Me reading this:

panthera--tigris--altaica

[ID for first post:

A multi-panel comic, with a pink monochrome coloration and a sketch-y style. The main characters are a young woman and man. The woman has long medium-tone straight hair, while the man has darker hair in a semi-short rounded style. The woman is on the left, the man is on the right.

Image one:

The woman is side-eyeing the man while he plays on a Nintendo DS.

Woman: “Bro.”

Man: “Hm?”

The woman now looks nervous, with visible sweat on her face.

Woman: “Um. What are your thoughts on.. gay people?”

The man has a question mark over his head and is still looking at his DS.

Man: “…. No opinion.”

Image two:

The woman is looking over at the man, surprised and a bit confused.

Woman: “No opinion? At all????”

Man: “Well I’ve never met anyone gay in real life… so. I don’t know.

A side view of the woman, with black scribbles encroaching on the sides of the panels. A dark speech bubble says “just say it”.

Woman: “…I”

Front view of her, looking off to the side and frowning while in internal struggle. Another black speech bubble says “SAY IT”.

Woman: “..I”

Her lap is shown. Her fists are clenched very tightly.

Woman: “I like girls”

Image three:

The man is shown again, with his lips pursed contemplatively. There is a speech bubble pointing off-page with sweat drops in it.

Man: “… Hm”

He closes his DS and looks over at the woman.

Man: “I change my mind then”

Image 4:

Both are shown again, looking at each other.

Man: “Gay people are the coolest.”

The woman tears up, with several blue tears running down her face. Three speech bubbles are around her, containing “AAAA”, “..!..”, and a circular scribble indicating inability to form words and being flustered.

The man is now drawn in a much less detailed style, and looks panicked. His mouth is open wide and there is a zigzag symbol by his head to indicate shock.

Man: “Why are you crying?!?”

/End ID]

[ID accompanying caption “me reading this:”:

A drawing of a very simplistic, rounded person. The person is kneeling on the ground, clutching a blank rectangular sheet. They have tears on their face and are looking at the sheet.

The person then has even bigger tears on their face and is looking up towards the sky. They look overcome with emotion, with creases between downturned eyebrows and a very wobbly open mouth. They are now holding the sheet against their chest with both arms.

/End ID]

atraversso

Cutest ducky by oniwano_haru

jaubaius

yteicosanievilew

“this makes me personally uncomfortable”, “this seems in poor taste”, “this is somehow harmful but presumably because you’re misinformed” and “this is actively malicious” are all different things. remember that

vivaciousarcanist

“this makes me personally uncomfortable”: the work has something that is awkward or triggering to someone, but nothing problematic “this seems in poor taste”: the work is fine, but it’s about something that maybe shouldn’t be joked about/the work has bad timing with the release lining up with a tradgedy similar to the events of the work like the episode tentacool and tentacruel from pokemon “this is somehow harmful but presumably because you’re misinformed”: the work unintentionally has some negative shit in it caused by a lack of knowledge, i.e. a cis person’s trans headcanons accidentally reinforcing negative stereotypes “this is actively malicious”: the work was made with the intention to cause harm

schafpudel

#this post needs to be mandatory viewing because the critique of work always being this black and white like… #‘the artist made a joke in poor taste therefore they are clearly an unapologetic violent fascist’ is like holy shit #please learn how to have a normal discussion about problems without it being 0 to 100

sosuperawesome

Ceramics By Elvira on Etsy

delightful-69

Omega-xis singing with Harp Note

orionsangel86

From facebook; mic drop.

finnskeeper

So that last line punched me in the face so hard I hit the reblog button. Oh well.

simonalkenmayer

I’d like to add…Doctor Who is about doing what you can to help, because you can. It’s about transformation, evolution, and being more than the sum of your parts. The companions are varied and many and symbolized a diverse audience working with the agent of good and kindness. If you got upset about a female Doctor? You missed the point.

thevioletviolinist

[Image description: Three screenshots of a single Facebook text post. In their entirety, they read:

‘X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.

Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.

Captain America literally fought Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.

The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.

The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.

Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.

Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.

Superman and Supergirl (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Supergirl.

Stan Lee said “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.

The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.

If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism, or any of the other things right wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood”- you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.

If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face” or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from the immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.

Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing… it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.’

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