Karno
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Well, I tried.
🕑 Added 2025-10-04 15:59:00 +0000 UTCSo yesterday, Traci's sister Mindy took me to the local library to scan in my Mink pages. They had a nice, big scanner in the Makerspace, so I thought I was sorted.
But the software operating the scanner wouldn't open, so that was no good. Next, we tried the library's big printer. But the controls were so complex and counter-intuitive, it became a long, frustrating slog. The files finally obtained could not be downloaded to my thumb drive, for some inexplicable reason. So they were e-mailed to me.
....But all 3 pages were in one bundle, inseparable. At least with the software available to me. My Photoshop CS3 wouldn't work without a Java patch. I downloaded that. Now it said, lemme see, "Licensing for this product has stopped working. You cannot use this product at this time".
I couldn't renew my Creative Cloud Photoshop either - seems I must update my OS first, and for some reason that wasn't possible either. Trying to buy Photoshop outright from Adobe sent me to a blank page. Just didn't want to talk to me at all, not even a "fuck you, poorboy!" It seems Enshittification is picking up the pace.
But Mindy had Adobe Workspace, or something like that, at her workplace. So I downloaded Photoshop onto her computer, and commenced to chop the file from the library into 3 separate pages. I managed to do that, but turns out that they were scanned in grayscale, and so covered in cruft from the pencils. I simply had not the time to clean it all up. Eeesh. Computers don't LIKE us, I swear.
But here's a sample from what I've been talking about, just as proof that I haven't been sitting around and playing with myself all this time. You'll get the proper posts once I'm back home with access to my creaky, but functional graphics set-up, OK?
Comments
A Patreon of the Ahts
Yes
Truedragon5374
Wait... is the new guy that Ukrainian kid who swore to be the Angel's knight?
STrRedWolf
I second Gimp. Load it in, split the layers out into files, levels command to massage out the pencils, and some eraser work for cleanup.
Major Matt Mason
Learn GIMP. The price is right and it works.
