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Adobe Creative Sweethearts

BroloBrolo BroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
edited May 2010 in Social Entropy++
Hey maybe you guys are creative! And you like to create things!

Possibly with one of the following programs:

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if you are fucking rich and have giant loads of boondollars stuffing your wallets.

Or perhaps you use one of these other free programs for poor people:

Image Editing:
GIMP
Cinepaint (Linux/Mac)
Inkscape
Paint.net

2D animation:
Synfig
Pencil
SWFtools (scripting)

3D animation:
Blender
Sculptris

Video Editing:
Windows Movie Maker - free if you use Windows

Sound Editing:
Audacity
LMMS -works in Windows/Linux


Anyway this is a good thread for talking about the creative things you are working on, and perhaps ask questions and give people answers/tutorials on how to do near things using some of the aforementioned software. Or even if you don't use any of this fancy technological stuff and do your stuff traditionally using pencil or poo on a stick.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I create laughter

    and poop

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I enjoy using paint.net as I am a poor poor man

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    Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    paint.net for image editing

    efb

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Aviary's online suite does me okay

    irfanview for image resizing

    gimp sometimes

    but I am not artsy


    oh and audacity for ringtones

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2010
    jesus fuck thank you rolo i wanted to start figuring out how to animate stuff before the forum battles

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Added paint.net, thanks dudes.

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    i am currently artblocked whoops

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hate Adobe Premiere so much

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I use Bridge and Photoshop for photography thingies.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Sheri wrote: »
    I use Bridge and Photoshop for photography thingies.

    Have you tried Lightroom? It's supposed to be really good for managing large amounts of photos.

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I might be using Audition, possibly Ableton for my forum battling.
    I use Illustrator and Photoshop a load for school stuff (I'm the guy in charge of making fliers and shit for everything).
    Trying to learn InDesign so I can do school newspaper stuff next year.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    oh and I used to use Lightroom for some photostuff

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    What are you doing, Rolo? Are you trying to scare me?

    it's working.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    Sheri wrote: »
    I use Bridge and Photoshop for photography thingies.

    Have you tried Lightroom? It's supposed to be really good for managing large amounts of photos.

    I have tried Lightroom, yes.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    For Y: Freelance Vowel I used to do the comic by screenshotting word

    but then doing it in ms paint was easier

    I like to say Written by Kuribo's Shoe, Drawn by Arial Black

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    see it sounds like a name but it's actually just the font I use!

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  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hate Adobe Premiere so much

    Really? I think it's pretty swell, and I use both it and Final Cut extensively. What don't you like about it?

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    see it sounds like a name but it's actually just the font I use!

    make more y: freelance vowel

    damn it shoe

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I recently finally learned to use Propellerhead Reason for more than really dinky additions to recordings and compositions(for instance, it's drums are about a billion times better than Finale). I learned to use it in quite possibly the worst way imaginable. I made a really terrible and simple techno-ish song.

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I really want to get Photoshop CS5, just to mess around with that new touchup feature thing, though, past that there really isn't any reason for me to get it, CS2 still works just fine for me.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    see it sounds like a name but it's actually just the font I use!

    make more y: freelance vowel

    damn it shoe

    look I have to space them out or people will realize I'm a talentless hack!

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  • QorzmQorzm Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I use Final Cut to edit my movies. Most recently I made these

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Wmazoh32Q
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2a596gIC68

    I am currently filming a short about the Series Finale of Lost, but filming last night didn't go so well, so I am not sure it will turn out nearly as good as I would have hoped

    I'll be filming and editing a whole bunch for the Forum Battle. I will also be using Reason and Ableton Live for the music I will likely create

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hate Adobe Premiere so much

    Really? I think it's pretty swell, and I use both it and Final Cut extensively. What don't you like about it?
    I tried learning it like 4 years ago and had a real tough time with it. I've used FCP since then and, to me, it was an easier learning curve.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I really want to get Photoshop CS5, just to mess around with that new touchup feature thing, though, past that there really isn't any reason for me to get it, CS2 still works just fine for me.

    One of the neat things about my school is that we always get to fool around with this stuff a few months before it comes out, and for my particular program I get most of Adobe's software for free.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited May 2010
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  • NarianNarian Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I've been slowly learning the inner workings of REAPER , been using the Drumkit from Hell VST and I hope to get a POD Studio UX1 soon so I can record guitars and vocals into REAPER, totally digital.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    has GIMP's gui stopped sucking yet?

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Whoa

    Elevator scene from The Shining recreated using RealFlow and Lightwave

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7049WVfSanM

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    has GIMP's gui stopped sucking yet?

    No.

    The best you can really get is Gimpshop, and that's still a nightmare to use from a usability standpoint.

    gimpshop-193443-1.jpeg

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  • gazamcgazamc Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    A family friend works for Adobe and gave me the whole CS3 suite and Lightroom for my birthday a couple of years back. Totally amazing gift.

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh god the newest version of Windows Movie Maker is so fucked.

    The changes they made are damn near ridiculous.

    I guess they thought the old version was too difficult, so they completely removed any sort of timeline feature...they just completely butchered it.

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Audacity is fucking great

    we used it for our senior design project in college to get tons of data points from a single period of a recorded sound wave, then used those points in our code to make a keyboard synthesizer

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Drew-B wrote: »
    Oh god the newest version of Windows Movie Maker is so fucked.

    The changes they made are damn near ridiculous.

    I guess they thought the old version was too difficult, so they completely removed any sort of timeline feature...they just completely butchered it.

    Does it still crash if you so much as look at it too hard?

    Also, does anyone know of decent freeware video editing software for windows? I'd like to add some other entries to the OP, I pretty much only use Premiere myself.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Gonna have to try my hand at some of these programs when I get home.

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    The new, borked version of WMM is on the left...the old version, which I still use, is on the right.

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    What you see on the left is as in depth as the editing tools get.

    Apparently stacking thumbnails like .jpegs as a means of showing the order of your clips is more user friendly than an extremely simple time line (right).

    edit: I should note that I use Adobe Premiere at work...

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    Drew-B wrote: »
    Oh god the newest version of Windows Movie Maker is so fucked.

    The changes they made are damn near ridiculous.

    I guess they thought the old version was too difficult, so they completely removed any sort of timeline feature...they just completely butchered it.

    Does it still crash if you so much as look at it too hard?

    Also, does anyone know of decent freeware video editing software for windows? I'd like to add some other entries to the OP, I pretty much only use Premiere myself.

    Do you mean, does it sometimes freeze when I click to...say...SAVE or publish?

    Yes.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'm doing photoshop work for axe cop

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    also I made this in after effects

    not that cool till the end

    it took like 7 hours

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Drew-B wrote: »
    Rolo wrote: »
    Drew-B wrote: »
    Oh god the newest version of Windows Movie Maker is so fucked.

    The changes they made are damn near ridiculous.

    I guess they thought the old version was too difficult, so they completely removed any sort of timeline feature...they just completely butchered it.

    Does it still crash if you so much as look at it too hard?

    Also, does anyone know of decent freeware video editing software for windows? I'd like to add some other entries to the OP, I pretty much only use Premiere myself.

    Do you mean, does it sometimes freeze when I click to...say...SAVE or publish?

    Yes.

    Yeah, that was such an incredible pain in the ass. I remember trying to use the double-speed filter at times, and it would work just well enough for you to do it once, then save the project. Any action you would take after that would cause it to crash. Sometimes it would just crash anyway before you could save, or as it was trying to accelerate the video.


    I need to create some time-lapse looking video, so I had to compress the video, accelerate the clip, publish the individual clip, crash the program, then re-import the clip again. Over and over again until I got the clip to the length I needed.

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    VLC put out some free video editing software, but I haven't used it.

    I don't think you're going to find anything free that's really useful. Might as well spring for Vegas or Final Cut Express.

    edit: also plug for our filmmaking thread

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