Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-05 Thread softwdensky
Perhaps our color vision does not separate color values ​​at a smaller level than a photon. If it is wrong, something between a green next to a literally extremely similar green is something between 1 and 0. Perhaps it is very important to grasp this image. I enlarged an image of 2300 × 2300

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-05 Thread softwdensky
It sounds like the X60 graphic card might be too old for Krita. I see. So it sounds I can't help that. Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread softwdensky
> Nice picture! > Can you write a bit about your workflow? Thank you! You are the first people who gave my works praise publicly. I can write a lot about my workflow eternally. > What tools in the programs did you end up using the most? Only Inkscape. > Did you learn anything while making

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread softwdensky
> giving it a photograph feel. I am glad to hear that. I thought so too. It is weird.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread mason
> The Alt key solved the problem. But Krita still requires "at least > OpenGL 2.0 or ES 2.0". The current installed version seems to be > OpenGL 1.4. It sounds like Krita the X60 graphics card might be too old for Krita. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread Michael McMahon
Nice picture! Can you write a bit about your workflow?  What tools in the programs did you end up using the most?  Did you learn anything while making it?  Is there anything you were frustrated with while completing the work? Best, Michael What is GNU? Check out https://www.gnu.org/ GPG Key:

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread softwdensky
He is famous.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread ewindes
Wow that's really amazing. Thanks for sharing! The blurring effects of the hair is really interesting, giving it a photograph feel. I also like the green/orange color pairing.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread softwdensky
I don't know. I finished my second and third work. Maybe she is famous.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread mason
> I finished my first digital work. It looks great! Did you do it all in Inkscape? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread mason
> I'm on the mailing list. I cannot see the artwork. https://trisquel.info/files/C85CFE61-70DA-4399-8334-7A0963AFCF75.jpeg signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread Caleb Herbert
I'm on the mailing list. I cannot see the artwork. <>

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-03 Thread softwdensky
Off-Topic I finished my first digital work. There would be room for improvement but I satisfied. Would you mind sharing it? Thank you very much. 100%free...hand, and scale-free. Would I be able to compete? I am going to give this work CC0. So you can put this on your desktop and I can

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-02 Thread softwdensky
I have just remembered and searched for the word "art in the age of mass reproduction". Benjamin's words (a quote from Wikipedia), "For the first time in world history, mechanical duplication has freed a work of art from its parasitic dependence on rituals." Computers were already playing a

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-02 Thread softwdensky
However, as I thought, one of the most fun elements of painting is competing for accuracy, is lost in computer graphics inherently. Second, I still feel that anything between 0 and 1 is always (literally perfectly) lost in computer graphics. Random numbers are not something between 0 and 1.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-01 Thread softwdensky
I want to use the digitizer. Anyway this is awesome. Especially painting materials are almost free of charge, no one can peep me is at work (maybe), I do not have to handle oil, solvent, and care of dryness, storage for my works. I am curiously more calm than excited.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-01 Thread xliang9550
Since you compose geometric pictures, then surely you'll need a vector image editor like Inkscape but not a raster image editor like Gimp or Krita, etc.. You can try to find some good vector image editors by searching something like "list of vector image editors". Please note that vector

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-01 Thread softwdensky
The Alt key solved the problem. But Krita still requires "at least OpenGL 2.0 or ES 2.0". The current installed version seems to be OpenGL 1.4. But I could not figure out how to upgrade it nor install the newer version. Because of the reasons, I mind to download it from their websites. Maybe

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2020-01-01 Thread softwdensky
This seems to be a similar problem, though. If I click "Settings" > "Configure Krita...", a preferences window shows up. It sounds I should mark the OpenGL checkbox but I cannot scroll down to the lower part of the window, I guess maybe in the lower part of the window, there must be a button

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-31 Thread mason
> On the contrary I would like to ask, for my purpose, which editor is > suitable for my purpose do you think? I tried to use Gimp, I clicked an > icon that seemed to function as a pen. I moved the digitizer on the > tablet to draw something and, indeed, the pointer on the screen moved, > too. But

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-31 Thread softwdensky
I do not understand well technical things, though, what I want to accomplish with drawing software is that to create projective geometry-wise retouched pictures and prove the nature of the connection between mathematics and the skeptical abilities. For example, there is one of my works "a

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-31 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 12/31/2019 01:33 AM, xliang9...@live.cn wrote: > Krita and Gimp are raster image editors, whereas Inkscape is a vector > image editor. So you expect to use Inkscape in such a way in which you > use a raster image editor? I don't expect Inkscape to work the same. I know fully well that it is

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-30 Thread xliang9550
Krita and Gimp are raster image editors, whereas Inkscape is a vector image editor. So you expect to use Inkscape in such a way in which you use a raster image editor?

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-30 Thread softwdensky
Maybe you are left-handedness. I miss that round colorful pallet.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-30 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 12/30/2019 10:01 AM, softwden...@disroot.org wrote: > GIMP and Krita suck (IMO). Personally, they totally seem not to match my > intuition. Inkscape matched my intuition. Odd. I can easily use Krita and Gimp, but I can't draw anything with Inkscape. -- Caleb Herbert KE0VVT 816-892-9669

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-30 Thread softwdensky
GIMP and Krita suck (IMO). Personally, they totally seem not to match my intuition. Inkscape matched my intuition. I was able to draw a picture without reading its manual, with a tiny troubles, though, it is totally acceptable. I would like it. It is fun! I was really, really frustrated with

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-28 Thread softwdensky
> Windows is completely proprietary, and creating a modified version is illegal, so it would not be a suitable base. I don't think so very much. But I am a beginner after all. So perhaps you are right. > This is because that cult leaders make money by taking advantage of their followers'

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-28 Thread xliang9550
Said ThinkPad Tablet models are based on Wacom's technology, so we can have some confidence that most Wacom's digitizer pens and tablets work fine with Gnu/Linux without non-free firmware. I tested them using blobless Debian (without any non-free firmware). Microsoft's Surface Pro is also

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-28 Thread softwdensky
> sorry No. I learned a lot of things. Those are valuable information. I will go with the X60 for a while. I recently got a good X200 so I will use it in the future. I do not know well but image processing seems to be a bit too high load for X60. I was thinking that a disadvantage of a pen

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-28 Thread mason
> I seem to be a bit confused. But if Trisquel's repository have only free > stuff, it does not really matter whether based on Debian or Ubuntu or > Windows. Ubuntu and Debian are mostly free software, with some freedom issues, so it is feasible to create a FSDG distro based on them by modifying

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-28 Thread softwdensky
> Those repositories still require modifications in order to comply with the FSDG, but so would Debian's "free" repository (main). I seem to be a bit confused. But if Trisquel's repository have only free stuff, it does not really matter whether based on Debian or Ubuntu or Windows. > You

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-28 Thread xliang9550
I remember that Krita maintains a list of supported tablets. Most of them are so called "pen tablets". You can try to find such a list on Krita's website. As for "LCD tablets", I have tried the following models of ThinkPad. All work fine with entirely free/libre software. The models include

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-27 Thread ewindes
I don't know if this is relevant anymore. I am a mathematician and I hate keeping track of paper. I also draw in Krita for fun. Here are the tablet pc's I have used and the pros and cons: 1. Wacom Intuos S tablet with 2013 iMac Pros: -Beautiful screen. Great colos. -very accurate -buttons on

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-27 Thread mason
> http://www.fudeyasharaku.com/ It looks like they only have drivers for Windows and macOS. You could contact them asking whether they plan to provide Linux drivers, and if so, whether they would consider releasing these drivers under a free software license. [1]

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-27 Thread mason
> > Debian has a repository of non-free software, but it is disabled by > default. > > Ubuntu is a different story. Their default kernel has blobs, and > > their > non-free repositories are enabled by default, > > I see. Thanks very much. I understand it clearly. But if so, why > Trisquel is not

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-27 Thread softwdensky
http://www.fudeyasharaku.com/ I checked the blocked contents of their websites by Firefox Focus (on iPhone, of course) and it was 0. They might have the concern. Would I contact them? They might be willing to make the driver for Trisquel. > Debian has a repository of non-free software, but

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-27 Thread mason
> Ah I see. I was thinking or under the impression Debian and Ubuntu did > not respect users's freedom so it was out of my thought (in this > community too, it seems that the opinion about whether Debian is free > or not was divided. So I thought Debian was unreliable, as an excuse > ;P). Debian

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-27 Thread softwdensky
> If it works on Debian without the non-free repository enabled Ah I see. I was thinking or under the impression Debian and Ubuntu did not respect users's freedom so it was out of my thought (in this community too, it seems that the opinion about whether Debian is free or not was divided. So

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-27 Thread mason
> But how do you look into the freedom status? Maybe I can also look > into that? For something like this, I would just search for threads and tutorials referencing the specific model, and see whether others have been successful in using it without non-free software. Searching for "[modelname]

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-26 Thread softwdensky
So... I'm afraid. Wacom: •CTL-672/K0-C (new, about $50) •CTH-480/** (auction, used, early 2010s models) •INTUOS DRAW CTL-490/W0 (auction, used, 2015 model, about $20 including postage) [1] •CTH-680/S1 (auction, used, 2013 model) •Cintiq 22HD DTK-2200/K1 (auction, used, 2015

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-26 Thread mason
> There are a lot of pen tablets of Wacom, Huion, XP-PEN etc. It seems that Wacom tablets often work with free software and should be supported by Trisquel's "xserver-xorg-input-wacom" package. However, I can't promise that all Wacom models will work, particularly newer models, so it depends on

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-26 Thread softwdensky
Thanks. There are a lot of pen tablets of Wacom, Huion, XP-PEN etc. I also found a manufacturer Kumadori that is a new manufacturer and sells a relatively cheap, functional pen tablet. There is a $50 Wacom simple pen tablet but that lacks some functions. They are usually under $100. I got to

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-25 Thread mason
> I can afford to get a pen tablet. I checked h-node but there seemed no > reported graphic tablets. Do those both all pen tablets and all LCD > graphic tablets require proprietary something? It seems that h-node does not have a section for pen tablets. However, searching the web it looks like

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-25 Thread softwdensky
There are two types of drawing tablets. One is called pen tablets in Japanese language. This type has no display, so we have to draw sort of blindly in a certain sense. Another type is called LCD (graphic) tablets and this type has display and we can draw fruits on the display directly. I do

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-24 Thread xliang9550
You should have heard of Pepper & Carrot, a webcomic composed using free/libre software (mainly Krita on GNU/Linux) and released under free/libre license (non-copyleft CC BY).

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-24 Thread softwdensky
> I've wanted to get into drawing with Krita, but I suck at it. Yeah I am also pretty sure you are not cut out for drawing. I might be willing to take the X200t at your asking price. I hope for your consideration.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-24 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 12/24/2019 06:48 AM, softwden...@disroot.org wrote: > Krita seems to be interesting. Some moderately popular furry artists use Krita for their work. I should make a collection of who uses it, so I can showcase it. <>

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-24 Thread Caleb Herbert
I have an X200 tablet with Trisquel and MATE. I can draw on it, and I've wanted to get into drawing with Krita, but I suck at it. <>

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-24 Thread softwdensky
Thank you. I got a strong inrerest in W700/ds and found two on ebay. One was $700 and another one was $900. I absolutely cannot afford to get one. If I could, I would rather get Talos II. I do not have that much expectations of the ability of the computer graphics. And I could not find both

Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-24 Thread xliang9550
X200t and W700/ds are perfect for your application. Built-in digitizer pen support and usable Atheros card even with original BIOS. They For software, install minimized Trisquel base system with KDE, and you can run Krita "natively". Note: the Atheros card for X200/s/t, T400/s, R400,

[Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?

2019-12-23 Thread softwdensky
2019 will end soon. I would like to know the best environment on Trisquel. The best hardwares including stylus, software, etc. Would you mind recommending or sharing the good equipment? As my current wants, I would like to use the current thinnest top of a stylus. And I would like to express