You mostly work on mobile? Your turnaround times are impressive. Yep, it sure is fun!
On my laptop, I've had much success using Photopea for the past few months. It's pretty good for a browser-based image editor, it takes care of basic image editing pretty well. One of the things I like is how it manages fonts; it doesn't have any Trek fonts pre-loaded, but if you load one from your computer, it'll load in Photopea's font selection for you whenever you load the site in the browser. Just as long as you don't move the file, that is. There's also a "Local Fonts" option where I guess you can use whatever fonts you have installed on your computer, but the feature appears to be disabled in Firefox. Oh, and I have a dropshadow style and an outline image effect style that also load (ready to apply to an image) along with several Trek fonts. It's nice having them available.
Zip drives were a must have for graphic design students in its heyday. They were relatively affordable (around $150 USD for the drive, $10 per disk iirc) and had a capacity of 100 Megabytes per disk, which was sorta shitty for removable storage even then but good enough for design project assets. There was little else commercially available at the time that was affordable and allowed you to easily port files between home/work/school, so they were everywhere in certain circles in the late 90s, particularly in design.
They were flimsy and unfortunately kinda unreliable, though, so if you heard the dreaded "click of death," it meant your disk was hosed. They eventually started selling 250 MB drives, and I remember there was the "Jaz" drive whose disks could hold 1 GB, but by then I think people were just done with Iomega's shit. I didn't know anyone that owned a frickin Jaz drive. When USB thumb drives became a thing around the turn of the millennium, Zip drives pretty much disappeared overnight. Good fuckin riddance, they sucked.
Tankies are not really leftists. They are conservatives who call themselves leftists. They are engaging in modern propaganda.
I wish more people realized this. They are bad faith actors who exist solely to disrupt and recruit. What I find particularly reprehensible about the Hexbear playbook is they appeal to the most disenfranchised part of the LGBTQ+ community and take advantage of their rage by giving them a target....not coincidentally, the same way the public face of the right wing panders to rural white men. Hexbear is queer-friendly and does offer a safe space, but they don't actually discuss, much fight for the rights of the queer community in any way. They give them anti-west talking points, wind them up, and send them out into the world, but they don't actually give a shit about their recruits' queer existence; they're just a tool to be used. It just sucks to see, for a number of reasons.
Basic image editing stuff is all right, my main gripe is GIMP's lack of a good equivalent of Photoshop's "object select" or "quick select" feature. It has a "smart scissors" feature that is anything but smart and always requires a lot of manual adjustments, which defeats the purpose of using it. I might as well select the object myself if I have to do that, so why bother using GIMP at all if it can't do any heavy lifting for me? That's why I just edit images in online image editors like Photopea lol
I mean, I love and support open source software whenever possible, but GIMP has always felt like it's five, ten years behind the curve.
You're welcome! For the post-Voyager shows, the Memory Alpha entry on Trek fonts does have accurate information and is a good reference since I focused just on the TOS to VOY eras.
You're gonna laugh, this actually started as a super short reference document for myself; it was just to organize the names of the three or four fonts I was using because I had trouble remembering which ones were for what show. It was like 20 words, max. But I had some fonts that I downloaded a while ago that were named differently when loaded in Photopea and I wanted to know if I've been using the right fonts all this time (yeah, I'm on Linux, hate GIMP, have yet to find a suitable Photoshop replacement). So I decided to verify them and started adding more. Frickin ADHD. Anyway, I figured my fellow 10F'ers might find it useful, so here it is!
Oooh, nice catch, both of you. I dunno if Disco or The Orville used "Lieutenant Tyler" as the character name intentionally, but I think you might be the first to document this trope.
Kelly Aster 🏳️⚧️ @ kellyaster @lemmy.world Posts 57Comments 314Joined 1 yr. ago
You mostly work on mobile? Your turnaround times are impressive. Yep, it sure is fun!
On my laptop, I've had much success using Photopea for the past few months. It's pretty good for a browser-based image editor, it takes care of basic image editing pretty well. One of the things I like is how it manages fonts; it doesn't have any Trek fonts pre-loaded, but if you load one from your computer, it'll load in Photopea's font selection for you whenever you load the site in the browser. Just as long as you don't move the file, that is. There's also a "Local Fonts" option where I guess you can use whatever fonts you have installed on your computer, but the feature appears to be disabled in Firefox. Oh, and I have a dropshadow style and an outline image effect style that also load (ready to apply to an image) along with several Trek fonts. It's nice having them available.