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They had them on all the time they were driving even on the streets in full daylight. It's been a very long time since I watched it and was sort of surprised that the mini's didn't feature until so late on in the film. That was a interesting piece. The MK1 grille is just so much nicer than the later one, not sure why they changed it.

Had a quick scan through the film. I think they do all have headlight grilles, well the white and blue ones have so doubt the red one is any different. It’s just that they have their lights on except for when you initially see them parked and you can’t see them when they’re moving.

Bit hard to be sure but doesn’t look as it has any there. Not that I’m going to change it but I should watch the movie tomorrow just out of interest.

https://belcourt-production.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/17101645/Italian-Job_The-web.jpg this shows the white mini with them in a film still https://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/The-Italian-Job-cars.jpg But this shows it without. But anyway it looks OK as it is.

Ended up being a bit of a mix of styles which wasn't the idea.

Perhaps the photo I used wasn’t a genuine Italian Job one then even though it said it was. Not the end of the world though, it’s still a mini and there wasn’t anything unique about the film ones.

some photos I found show it with some without, could re-watch the film to be sure but it's fine. If I'm wrong then it's just a regular red Austin Cooper S.

Thank-you. Just looking through filming locations for backgrounds.

Found a really tiny reference photo and thought I'd see if it still looked like a car once I'd finished with it. I'm probably going to add a background as it's boring but not decided what yet. I will update when/if I do. No blurs in this one just gradients.

Affinity didn’t start or spread the myth that it was an Adobe killer, a few users did and still do. if you are talking about functionality, they are clearly wrong. I’ve no doubt that there are pros who have switched as for some Affinity does enough and sharing master files isn’t a requirement for them.

This was just a quick one that I decided to do for a futurism section on reddit a little while back. Really could do with a couple of adjustments that I will do sometime. Shock horror the AI crowd piled in proclaiming it was generated which seems to be the way now if it’s more complicated than a stick man. No point in trying to argue your case on there as they always know best.

There's nothing that I've seen that will force Adobe customers to use the AI bits if they don't want to, just use it like you always have. So I'm not sure anyone's boycotting them just because of that, at least I've not read that anyone is. I think as far as AI goes, generation is a no for most but AI (not that it's really Al as it's not intelligence) for say adjustments isn't a problem.

it’s not missing any wheels. It’s an old one that I don’t like enough, it’s just OK, to make any changes to it, sorry!

The Mac icons have become progressively worse as time has gone by. Always used to be impressed with the design and care the designers used to take, not any more. They’re not even consistent in style these days (perhaps copying clueless MS!). But the smiley finder icon is a classic even if it’s not as good as it used to be.

Not always some of it is simply bad and many would argue isn't art at all just rubbish.

Yes, bad art is bad whether it is intentional or not.

Another problem I’ve run in to now is if you create anything more complicated than a stick man the ai crowd turn up accusing you of posting ai output as your own work even though if they knew anything about graphics it obviously isn’t. In theory you shouldn’t care however if it’s aimed at someone trying to sell work and these idiots turn up then potential customers read what they have to say and will put at least some of them off. Arguing your case is like banging your head against a brick wall, it’s a total waste of time as they always know better. Hopefully the courts side with artists but money talks so I’m not holding my breath.

Oh yes it could be pretty much closed, it depends on the outcome of the upcoming legal battles. It might be decided that these companies can only use public domain images or that artists have to opt-in and not this opt-out nonsense that is just PR.

And you can still pick up cs6 very cheaply although on the mac side you can’t run it unless you’re on Mojave or earlier. Well it is a problem if you’re talking about wanting or needing an alternative to Adobe generally, not for specific for use cases. I’ve no idea, you might be right and it will never get there especially if they decide to release additional products like DAM… and they’re then spread even more thinly. However just as you say cs6 is fine for you the same can be said about Affinity apps. Some will be absolutely fine with what v1 gave them never mind v2. Some certainly couldn’t care less about 1 bit graphics, not everyone use swatches. In the same way, say for you, you decide Affinity isn’t really good enough others will say cs6 isn’t enough for them. Related I noticed a headline from a few months back saying that paid Adobe CC subscriptions have almost reached 30 million. Think how much that is a month.

I know the other subscription options are even better but even read only would be better than what adobe offers. But it’s academic as they’re not going to change. Which is why your best hope is someone makes products that are on parity, or close to, but for a one off cost. Not going to happen any time soon though. Look at AD for example, very slowly getting closer to where AI was. But as AI didn’t stand still you could argue it’s almost as far behind now as it was when it was first released. Which is why my guess is 10-15 years assuming AI runs out of things to add, which isn’t going to happen for a while. There are “lesser” alternatives, which might suit many people’s needs fine, so it’s a bit more than adobe are a monopoly because they’re not really. It’s also that, for better or worse, they are the industry standards. If you want to get in to graphics design or whatever companies expect you to know Adobe products (unless you’re talking about UI/UX). If you send files they expect it in Adobe format. So you could say companies make things worse and in turn make Adobe worse or at least there’s no pressure put on them to change. I really meant if you’re earning a ok living from whatever you do then it’s not always such a big deal, plus of course it’s a deductible business expense. But I get your point. You could say that for some (many?) even if you could buy outright like the old days it would be a problem especially for one man bands trying to get going. AI/PS wasn’t exactly cheap back then never mind the Master Collection.

Even read only, like Office 365 does, would be OK. So you could still export and print just can’t edit. But not enough people dropped it (or couldn’t) so why would they change if they can get away with it? I guess if you’re making money using it then it’s not such a big deal being locked in and continually paying for it. There still isn’t anything out there does everything AI or PS can (assuming you need everything), no idea about other apps like dtp. Perhaps in another 10-15 years Affinity might be there or perhaps a newcomer will do it instead, who knows.

AI upscaling, de-noise or adjustments fine (although that seems to be hit and miss) generating images no. There’s far too much functionality that could/should be added without jumping on to that bandwagon. A lot of the AI output isn’t nearly as impressive as some of the users think it is anyway unless you’re only looking at a tiny thumbnail. Not saying it’s all bad but a lot if it is. If you want AI generated stuff you already have multiple options out there, use those.

I know it already does that, just saying you don’t need to unless you really want to. There are easier ways that your browser can already do those things and so you don’t need to install python, extra libraries and run external apps to do it. Yes the python script blocks ads etc but who doesn’t run an adblocker these days, in my opinion the web is barely usable without one. Also as I said I would use a privacy respecting search engine and not google so you don’t care about cookies. Still don’t understand the need for a spell checking utility, browsers check spelling as you type or once you paste text but it’s obviously useful to you. Anyway some may find them useful and prefer to do it the python way but, even though I’ve python installed, I’d do it the easy way.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fforum.affinity.serif.com%2F+%s For the search you could just set up a custom search engine instead. Think it would be the above although I’d swap google.com for startpage.com for privacy reasons. Not certain it’s better than searching directly from here though. If you want to be a bit fancier for no good reason you could create a javascript bookmarklet to prompt for the search term and search for it. You can also use bookmarklets for translation and url shortener, not sure why you’d want spell check as it’s built in to everything. I’m on my ipad at the minute or would do the code but it’s not hard to find. So no real need to do it in python especially if you don’t already have it installed. But it’s good practice!

Yes that’s the other thing, when you swap between the two versions.