Wandering with the Wind...

Monday, June 11, 2012

Goodness grief, I pulled out my tablet today (why of course I wasn't intending to draw and procrastinate) and realised that I've somehow landed myself in this shit situation where 1) my photoshop has mysteriously crashed 2) my tablet too. Well I assume my tablet has died in one way or another based on its extremely poor performance when I used it with Painttool SAI; the lines came out all jerky and angular, and there was very nearly no pressure sensitivity in terms of line thickness when I used the pen tool, even though I made sure that CTE was connected to Windows virtual machine and my pen tool settings weren't far off the last time I checked.

Worse still, whenever I start sketching or doing some gestural lines that require running over the same area on the tablet for a little more than, say, five times, the stupid canvas would suddenly zoom out and move downwards and I have no fuckin' clue why, not to mention the extremely annoying lag that I hardly ever experienced before this.

Sigh. I think it might have been because of the drop it suffered in the print room last time round...there are two rather long and noticeable cracks and a score of tiny scratches, and while those might not be the main reason for my tablet's poor performance now, the impact of the drop might very well have done a thing or two. I can't figure out my photoshop, though. Keeps crashing the moment I open a new canvas. It's quite a familiar situation because if I remember correctly I've dealt with the same shit in my previous windows OS too...but I can't remember how I fixed it, if I did anything at all. Maybe my com's just having one of its moods. That'd be a first, though, and not very amusing too.

Right. So now I'm stuck with no tools for digital painting and it may very well turn out that it'll be like this for a pretty long time, at least until I get a new tablet. Not sure how long a tablet's life-span is...mine's been with me for a good four years, think I've read on DA that some people's died in two even though they took good care of it (well of course "good" is subjective, but nevermind). Well, I guess if I do end up restocking I'll get myself an Intuos then, about time for an upgrade.

For now I suppose I'll just have to deal with good ol' traditional.

OR maybe I could finally find some reason to get my ass back to proper academic work.

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~~~*Waited for the Winds at 1.14pm*~~~

Aurinya blogged at 1:14 PM

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