04-20-2021, 01:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-20-2021, 01:55 AM by CtrlAltDel.)
(04-19-2021, 03:41 PM)rickk Wrote: Eventually as you gain proficiency, it will no longer require hours to complete routine tasks.
Just kidding! That's the way I often feel about my work, I'll finish something I started in the middle of the day, only to notice the sun has long since set, leaving me wonder where the hours went. Sometimes I find I have a pixel by pixel obsession with a particular graphic, and an entire evening escapes me.
My downfall is that I often draw 2-3 different versions of the same thing, realizing that one is likely to turn out better than the others (different methods)...and then when complete, I like them all. (nope, not vain at all...LOL)
You sound a lot like me, Rickk. Doing something over and over again to "get it right" and then realizing after a long time lapse that the first time you did it was probably just fine to start with. Gimp seems to have that power over people.
BTW, I'm still waiting on the day when I can use Gimp for 5 or 10 minutes, get something done, and then just quit. I don't think it'll ever arrive.
(04-19-2021, 12:02 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: When I use Gimp, I code...
Strange experience some years ago. I worked in a project 10km from home and I could get there on a bicycle, about half the distance being on bike lanes in the "Bois de Boulogne", a big park west of Paris. Out of curiosity I got a wearable heartbeat monitor, and the Andoid apps that records the heartbeat and the GPS position. One could clearly see where the steep slopes were.
Usually I would remove the thing during the day, but one day I forgot it and wore it all day. Once back home I downloaded the data. To my surprise there was a 3 hours span in the afternoon where my heartbeat was very slow (somewhat below 50). The next day at work, looking at hard evidence (time stamp on mails, source code and server log files), this was when I was writing code (as an "architect" on that project, I usually didn't write much code, but that part was critical and somewhat easier to code than to explain). So, writing code puts me in some kind of trance (or helps me reach nirvana)
You shouldn't stop. In fact, you should code more. Big Grin I can envision a website being created, centered around a business, named something appropriate like Ofnuts Gimping For The Heart!
EDIT: I've been trying for the last 30 minutes to separate my reply to Rickk and my reply to you and make them into two separate replies and have absolutely no idea how to do that. It seems like they are different replies, but they are automatically combined when posted to the board.