You guys are awesome
thanks for all the feedback!
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Originally Posted by sezmra  I'm in the boat with you, holding the other oar - waiting to find out which way we should be steering.  |
You should know... I'm a really lousy swimmer.
But seriously–yeah, I don't want people getting hurt, but at the same time I don't want people feeling like they're being left out or marginalized, so it's a tough balancing act.
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Originally Posted by Daman I am not a graphical designer for a living, so I refuse to pay for this expensive kind of software. Which means I do all my work in the Gimp - a program I've grown quite accustomed to over the years, and honestly, when I tried Photoshop CS3 on a friend's PC all it did was made me dislike the program since I couldn't find a way to scale layers independantly from each other (and he says there isn't such an option). That is however one of the things I do nearly with every picture I edit in Gimp. |
I'm really glad you're that you feel so strongly about Gimp and the PSD format
(I tend to get out of touch with a lot of stuff when I'm in the thick of making something–i.e. I need a lot of reality/sanity checks), because I was really kinda getting the notion that everyone would be totally down with dumping Photoshop for Illustrator–like me. I have a love/hate thing with Photoshop. It's complicated.
I'll try and use only Gimp for the final stages of this next skin!
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Originally Posted by Beebo Brink I like the idea of some kind of a club for modders. It encourages and rewards creative endeavors. |
I really really really want to like (and implement) this idea–I can totally imagine the setup: invite-only basis, all group members are equal (i.e. can invite, kick, or even disband the group), members would share and participate in any improvements to the "group" skin.
But... I'm sorta afraid of the possibility that such an exclusive club has potential to breed jealousy amongst those who aren't invited and divisiveness in the
SL community as a whole.
But... I'm still turning this idea over and over in my mind–I basically have the setup to totally do this... and in some ways the GitHub repo is totally about this–with its forks and pull requests, but that's another rant for another time... Quote:
Originally Posted by Io Zeno You have already given out a good deal of PSD's Eloh, I don't think most of us expect you to continue no matter what. |
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Originally Posted by Beebo Brink I always assumed that the release you made was a single event, or at most a single project. |
See, the thing is I totally always assumed it was going to be an on-going & ever-changing kinda thing–I mean sorta like how things just go out of style, so I'd hafta keep on updating my skins.
It's really neat that you guys think the opposite–because it's something I've never realized until now. I think it's kinda mind-blowing, but I gotta first sleep off the coffee and the booze before I have an aneurysm
I'll definitely keep thinking all this through (and hopefully coming up with something
in late September? don't hold me to that... 
)!