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About Me Member Anthro Artist I call myself Pete, in English25/Netherlands Recent Activity Deviant for 3 Years
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Mark BSc assignment, and no tablet PC

Fri Dec 11, 2009, 1:36 PM
A while back I got my mark for my bachelor assignment. I got a 7. (out of 10) which was what about what I expected. I got an 8+ for the presentation, but the report and the actual work I did dragged the final mark down a bit. But I learned a lot, which is actually more important than the mark. :)
Still 3 more courses to complete, then I'll have the BSc title :) Which will hopefully be at the end of this academic year. :)

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In other news, I bought a new laptop. It arrived yesterday! The back light in the monitor of my old PIII laptop (from 2001?) was starting to flicker, so any day it will be gone.

So I selected the HP TouchSmart tx2-1150ed. It is a 12.1" laptop with a digitizer in the screen, which set me back 890 euros. (in the US the it costs $~800 - electronics are relatively expensive here)
In other words, I got the equivalent of a CINTIQ tablet monitor (which costs EUR 800 too, only mine is without tilt sensitivity) and I got it in the form of an affordable laptop (which I needed anyway) of a very decent brand (HP). Which is like a dream come true!!

Now I can just hear you thinking, "That sounds almost too good, there's gotta be a catch!"

Well, there is. The thing has pressure sensitivity (256 levels, which is OK), but due to the way the drivers are built, Photoshop doesn't recognize it. And neither do paint shop pro 7, 9 or 10, corel painter.X or 11, SAIpainter, paint.NET (I got desperate) or any of the serious drawing programs. The only serious drawing program that works is Manga Studio 4, but that program is so geared towards that specific drawing style that I can't really use it.

It didn't come up in any of the reviews I read, I only read about it when I started googling for my specific problem. I'm not gonna wait for adobe to adapt PS or N-trig to change their drivers, as the laptop has been around for a while already, and they still haven't done it, so I expect they never will. So I'll be returning it.

*sigh* crap.

So if you're looking to buy a tablet PC, look into this: if it uses the N-trig DuoSene touch screen/digitizer, it won't be good for photoshop. Unless they're going to build new drivers for it.

So I guess I'll be buying a regular 12.1" laptop (I do like that size). I need a new printer one of these days too, since my current inkjet only prints in black and cyan! =D And with the money I will be able to save by discarding the digitizer, I should be able buy a color laser printer, which I really want too, and then the artist in me still has something to look forward to. :) Not as good as the tablet PC would have been, but it's still a good patch on the wound. ;)

  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: The Blues Brothers OST
  • Reading: Salsa zonder Heisa
  • Watching: Myth Busters
  • Eating: Muesli
  • Drinking: milk and cafee

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  • Current Residence: Enschede, The Netherlands
  • Print preference: uuh... 300 dpi?
  • Interests: (Antro) Art, Webcomics, Folkloristic and Latin dances...
  • Favourite movie: The Lion King
  • Favourite band or musician: Bad Religion, or Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  • Favourite genre of music: From Folk to jazz to Punk, or even metal. Not always interested in top 40 though.
  • Favourite artist: KittMouri, Tasimmet, Dingbat... And many more.
  • Favourite poet or writer: Prettchet
  • Favourite photographer: ... My dad?
  • Favourite style of art: Anthro
  • Operating System: winXP
  • MP3 player of choice: Wimamp 5
  • Favourite game: NFS series
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Favourite cartoon character: Take a guess ;-)
  • Personal Quote: Seize the Day!! ...Corny but true.
  • Tools of the Trade: pencil, scanner, printer, pen, scanner, tablet. Usage in that order. (tho, sometimes a skip a step)

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:iconoha:
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:glomp::glomp::glomp::glomp:
:santa: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! :rudolph:
:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:
:iconoha:
Hellloooo!!

Thank you very much! Glad to meet ya here! :glomp:
:iconpete-bagheera:
The pleasure is all mine ^_^

--
~~ Logic brings you from A to B, but imagination takes you everywhere.--(Albert Einstein, 1879-1955)
:iconflamemothphotography:
thanks for the page view

nice gallery btw

take care
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please cheak out my gallery =]
:iconpete-bagheera:
huh...? * blink * ...

You can see that??


Anyway, thanks. Yours is nice too :)
:iconvagrant-ferret:
Cynifox from FWF; nice dev page you have!

--
"Neither rain, nor dark, nor stink of cheese
Shall stay these couriers from the swarth delivery
of these hallowed scrolls of journalistic lies"
- Paperboy oath

C'mon Ren! I want to be a man; like the nice lady!
:iconbepo89:
Hi! I'm here for the grand openning of your gallery! :boogie:
Lol, I know how you feel, I'm actually trying to avoid any people I might already know :hmm:
Anyway, so far, so good! Keep up the good work.
And since your fav movie is The Lion King, I have to ask-do you have an acount on The Lion King Fan Art Archive?
:iconpete-bagheera:
Hey, cool. A visitor out of the blue?

I do give this url to some people, but I'm defenately careful to who!

I have been to that fan art site before, but I haven't got an account there. My topics of drawing have changed, and anything possibly worth putting up there is here too.

>Anyway, so far, so good! Keep up the good work.
Thanks!!
:iconpete-bagheera:
Wow... I finally actually opened an DevArt page!

Over the next few days/weeks, I think I'll be uploading the stuff I've got lined up.

I'll upload some old stuff first, the more recent pics later.

Then after that, hopefully I will still dare to show my face in public. ^_^'

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