I remember us having a thread on this latest topic. Bbrowsers spreading your e-mail adress (from your linked e-mail client), files, including images, containing private info in their headers, just to satisfy companies' paranoia.
Yes, they have the right to get paid for their products, but having those who bought taken as hostages because "the good have to pay wth the bad" is a mentality that brings us back to Nazi Germany and other BigBrother like situations. Political correctness, moral majority, iron hard intolerance...
I get sick each time I read that Microsoft's "how to report" link.
I cannot say anything concrete here. Of course some may exaggerate, of course, on the other hand, Adobe denies.
Fact is that many follow the road Microsoft took with XP's activation. Curious Labs had to back-off with Poser5, although sp4 does do a check on the network (even if that happens to be a cable-connection to the Internet). ZBrush2 does it, and so does Adobe.
To keep privacy: disconnect your work puter from the Net and only show/share prints.
If you're connected to the Net, then forget about privacy.
I use 7.01 and won't upgrade as for the price of the upgrade I could get Painter8 sidegrade which is, in my case, far more handy as its brushes are superb and easy to understand and it expands PS7 the way I like.
Back to topic: very interesting topic. Good work.
Small sideroad/add-on that gos nin the opposite direction. Normally cartoons (bandes dessin?es) are coloured by most European artists as follows:
1/ scan the line drawing you created or got and open in PS in CMYK mode
2/ load the black channel as a selection on a new layer and fill it with black
3/ Create another layer below this black lines on transparancy one, and paint on that one. In CMYK.
a monitor can only imitate C, M, Y and K but colour isn't that critical and you'll never get big surprises.
there's a role reversal for you) it would be done in Liquitex acrylics. That way I could add different mediums and additives to increase drying times for areas needing subtle blends, do fairly solid dark colors for the upper corners, created texture in the paint itself where necessary, be able to do the hair well, and then mix it down to almost a water color consistency for the beard (which is totally cool).
