• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        Weird background: I like to study handwriting. I was literally trying to figure out the process 🤣

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          17 hours ago

          Start bottom left. Straight line up, then right. Move to the left most part of the next straight line without lifting pen

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          17 hours ago

          ooh as like a hobby? what’re the cool things u discover? I love handwriting, even tho I don’t make the most legible print >m< but most of what I write is for my own eyes so as long as I can understand it idgaf

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            17 hours ago

            I helped out with an art project once photographing a very old “illuminated manuscript” book so that it could be restored digitally. Literally pouring over thousand year old handwriting to fill in the time-destroyed gaps where letters used to be. It was neat and it permanently altered my brain to be forever interested in interesting handwriting 😅

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              10 minutes ago

              Very cool, I’ve had a very similar experience! PS - please take as constructive criticism that it is to pore over, not pour over.

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              11 hours ago

              Tsk look at this tryhard over here using his brain to do actually cool and interesting things instead of just feeding invaluable manuscripts into the book-eating machine /s

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                  7 hours ago

                  I remember the old days when Photoshop required a good deal of professional expertise (way beyond my comprehension) to make something good with it. My mom would diligently magic around with the various colour corrections, that pixel-copying tool to manually and painstakingly excise power lines from beautiful landscape shots and turn a slightly overexposed silhouette against a sunset into a forest line through the precise and careful applications of spells I can only now begin to guess at after a few tentative steps in learning GIMP.

                  Today, I imagine it would be a prompt or three to a machine creating a decent, but not exceptional imitation of that work - good enough for professional work where excellence is secondary to efficiency, but hardly interesting for anyone with even a passing interest in photography.

                  What I’m trying to say is that being good at Photoshop may well point to a keen eye for details and affinity for diligent work.