As much as I like croissants โ and I really like #croissants ๐ฅ๐ฅ โ the best part is how baking* them makes the house smell amazing for the rest of the day.
I want there to be professionals in all businesses. I want people to know what theyโre doing and provide help when a customer seeks services. People become professionals with proper training, time and a growing wage commensurate with growing responsibility and knowledge, benefits and job security. Whether one is a waiter, sells shoes, cars or is a lawyer, doctor or engineer is immaterial.
@StillIRise1963 It used to be the case! At least in Europe when my parents were young. E.g. retail staff were specialized in what they were selling. And I had a friend in my late teens who was in retail. While they moved her throughout the department store during her training she specialized in lingerie. I wish we would still do that.
Oooh, #GraphiteEditor has the node graph functionality, which allows you to compose vector objects from the primitives like fill, stroke, transform and live filters in a visual manner!
Node graph interface and filters both give me this nice break-out I needed after LPEs in #Inkscape. Don't get me wrong: that program is THE legend, developers are masters of vectors, and it's purely native Gtk toolkit on which application is built. Right now, their priority is CMYK support, so follow if you're into printing.
I just love to experiment with shiny new software that's #OpenSource, especially one that uses #RustLang and #web to its advantage.
Watch 'em apply circular repeat filter on a mere line to produce this fun sparkle effect. (It is Graphite's official channel, by the way. Wish they were on Mastodon?)
@vintprox Hm I canโt remember what exactly it cut off but it was icons. I launched it again and it seems fine now. Not sure what happened there. I am on a fairly new Macbook so I didnโt think resolution would be an issue. Regarding scaling I would need specific measurements in cm and mm actually. Affinity has a transform menu that lets me set height and weight etc. I might just not have found that?
@vintprox I just found the transform menu but itโs only pixel? Can I switch that to cm/mm?
That also led me to the โcut offโ issue that I ran into. Iโll attach screenshots. I can move out the side as you mentioned but then it cuts the top and even the file menus. I havenโt found the sweet spot that doesnโt cut off the right while keeping the top ok. Browser is Safari 17.3 btw.
On the topic of #Affinity and #Canva, there is a new statement out today. Registered users probably got the email as well.
For now, I suggest we extend the Affinity team our continued support and love, while holding them to their pledge. They have done right by the graphics community this far, and deserve the benefit of doubt. We'll be watching them closely.
I would have been more at ease if it was Affinity buying Canva though ๐
@carondolet@airwhale Not sure if I agree. The message yesterday and the video were so bad it sent the community in a tail spin. I doubt they were predicting the backlash (hence not smart). Otherwise they would have sent todayโs statement in the message yesterday. This is purely a reaction to the outcry yesterday. Canโt say I believe them. Had they come out with that yesterday in the initial message maybe โฆ now? Ehhh
It's interesting that with #affinity being acquired by #canva users respond with their hope that it doesn't now enshitify.
And I kind of feel: People know. They know that these companies are unsafe stewards of their work tools. But invest in that system regardless.
Not sure how to convince people to invest in open source instead so this kind of thing can't happen. Not just hope won't, but structurally can't happen.
@doctormo I have tried Inkscape a while ago and it canโt hold a candle to Affinity Designer. Iโll check out Krita but even for my little use I havenโt seen anything comparable to AD.
@doctormo@codefolio Canโt say we didnโt put our hands into our pockets when we went with Affinity which is a paid software. That interface clearly seems to work for a lot of people otherwise it wouldnโt be such an outcry now. Also, putting money into open source doesnโt mean the programmers donโt sell to Canva next year and we are right where we are now.