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[ehowton]

So I'm an idiot.

You've read, perhaps, my commentary on Adobe Photoshop Elements. Well, I was quite frustated when I ran a recent batch process, and not only did my resize/convert job take seemingly forever to complete, it appeared to use nearly 100% of my CPU while it was doing so. This didn't happen last time. I let it run overnight, and much to my surprise, I quickly discovered what the problem was. The 2272x1704 JPEG images I was trying to resize to 1000x750 GIF's were set to inches, not pixels. Ergo, I was creating 300+MB GIF images with a resolution of 30,000 pixels!

This ain't your father's Photoshop.

Comments

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

Might I suggest using Photoshop?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

How about the GIMP?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Just think, you could be PIMPING with the GIMPing

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Have you ever even used the gimp? It's ass and so are you for suggesting it.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

but considering the operator (you in this case) I found that the software might be more of a match to your personality and therefore would reduce the number of egregious errors that you make.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Again, comments based on zero knowledge! I've got a plan. Download the GIMP, yes, it's free. Use it for a couple of months. THEN talk out your ass. Not before. Thank you. Damn. I'm responding to this via my inbox, and am unsure whether this is posting to my blog or Amy's. In which case I might have used the term 'rectal cavity.'

[(Anonymous)]

Current Mood: Ready to go HOME!

Where exactly is that, rockstar?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

At any given day of the week, 'home' is: Your house, David & Wendy's house, my folks' house, my cot in the DataCenter, or my mother-in-law's house in Wichita. I guess one could say, home is anywhere other than work.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

would that be inclusive or exclusive of the woman?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

My wife falls under the heading of "...my mother-in-law's house in Wichita."

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

What I was asking was does your wife have to be present to make your location home?

So you're the guy?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

You're the guy they trust millions and millions of dollars with, only to make a mistake like that? Tsk, tsk, sir.

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

Oh, NOW I understand the other comment about inches vs. pixels. (So it takes me forever to get around to reading things) Gosh, that makes me feel better about myself though. You get paid to not make mistakes like that. When I make little mistakes like that, no one but me knows it. :D I love my life.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

until you decide to tell us so that we may give you grief about it.

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

...which will never happen.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

but you always do, hence the comment.

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

No, I don't. I do a lot of dumb, stupid and otherwise not-worthy-of-mention type things that you don't know about.

Anything you do hear about is usually something I don't mind getting grief over.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I did tell you about the latest Blue Portal project called Big Sister, right? We're always watching...

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I've been getting that line a lot lately. What, do I look like a prime target for intimidation tactics?! Sheesh.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

No, just someone to be monitored closely.

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes, I could be the next real threat to society as we know it.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I dunno

[(Anonymous)]

I half expected my face to be photoshopped into it.

But if it makes you feel any more comforted, I would shoot first and ask questions later. In fact, on my list of to-do's before the end of the year, is to get a concealed weapon permit and a handgun to actually conceal. Me with a gun. Are you scared yet?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

who are you?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

The IP is a quest account in Spokane.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

why would someone from Spokane join us?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

It's Amy, posting anonymously. Identical IP.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Because she's from there? Freak.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Well shaazaam! Huba huba! Duba duba!

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Thanx for doing my dirty work.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm a unix system administrator. We make miskates too. Just not often. And they're usually catastrophic. Like my buddy who remotely pilots an Air Force Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. When he makes a mistake the $30 Million plane crashes into the earth and explodes into mostly unrecoverable pieces. I do digital image manipulation for entertainment purposes only.

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that makes me feel better about my last mistake, which only cost a client $18,000. Pocket change compared to $30,000,000.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

$18k? Tony and I have had a client lose ONE MILLION DOLLARS an hour until we got their server back up. one hundred million thousand dollars! (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ehowton/16007.html)

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

Well, the insurance business isn't quite as volatile as yours is I guess.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Be thankful you don't have the stress of fixing a server which without, slows down the process of maintaining the national security of this fine nation.

[missamy84.livejournal.com]

I am more grateful than you could ever imagine. I hate the pressures involved in this business. Yours sounds like it would be much worse.

Perhaps...

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you were confused with the GUI. If you'd had CLI, then maybe, just maybe you wouldn't have made such a blunder

Re: Perhaps...

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

That's actually quite astute of you. You're probably right and I wonder if the batch process has a CLI interface...

C:> psconvert -s c:\source_dir -d c:\destination_dir -r 1000x750 -m gif &