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Had the second lesson in digital darkroom thingys. After the first lesson four of us went away (three and a half, I was a bit late) remembering magic numbers:- 72 or 300 pixels and confused. A picture is a picture, and you look at it on the monitor, but if someone else is going to look at it next you have to decide whether they are going to look at it on paper or their monitor, and then you set it to 72 or 300 pixels, and the picture on my monitor still looks the same.
This week there were eight of us, and I wasn't so late. This digi darkroom is no good for man-hunting, there were eight wimmin in a row hiding behind laptops and hanging on Ming's every word (and Microsoft rant). We aren't beginners any more, so we can't save pics as JPEGs, we have to use TIFFs. We spent a long time selecting areas of sky and making them blue-er. Then we sort of discovered layers. I discovered lots of layers, every time I wrote more text I got a new layer. It got tricky trying to move it about because they wouldn't stay together. We just squeezed in a coffee break before the end, when I needed a beer break to let all this information sink in. I must be early next week and get the chat done before class starts. If there was wireless there we could send messages back and forth.