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Hi, and thank you for how fast you replied. And I'm a little less sheepish seeing that I'm not the only one to ask about enabling a choice of install locations, based on using the msi installer.

But I don't see one available on the downloads page in my account. Am I looking in the wrong place?

TIA,

Gary

 

I'll make this UberSuggestion once a year, okay?
Hoping it isn't too late in the cycle—the length of which is unknown, right?—to suggest...

If you want to conquer the world with AD, the world is not limited to Adobe Illustrator. Two Windows drawing programs—MAGIX Xara Designer and CorelDRAW—have some features and tools worth investigating/adopting/stealing.

The foremost one I'd like to see implemented is a truly context-sensitive right-click pop up menu.

The fewer trips away from my cursor, the better—you work faster when your tools are close at hand, in the same way you get more meat at dinner when the serving plate is closer to your fork. </attempt at humorous analogy>
Play "what if" with me for just a moment? The Shape tool is new and a really terrific too for someone who began with vector art in 1991 and had a "Line tool, deal with it" tool. But what if all the shapes could be accessed by a right click menu when the shape tool is clicked on?
And "what if" there was one editing tool for lines and control points, whose purpose is determined by holding Alt/Opt, Cmd?Ctrl? I've always learned new curse words when working in Illustrator with lines. Direct Select, Change Curve, Add Point, ya-dah-dah. All those tools are covered in Xara with one tool, and the commands are repeated on the context menu bar, somewhat redundantly. Quality over quantity.

Again, just a suggestion.
I didn't get a pony for Christmas so I'm accustomed to disappointments.
 
Happy 2019.
Or Else.

—Gary
 
 

I'll make this UberSuggestion once a year, okay?
Hoping it isn't too late in the cycle—the length of which is unknown, right?—to suggest...

If you want to conquer the world with AD, the world is not limited to Adobe Illustrator. Two Windows drawing programs—MAGIX Xara Designer and CorelDRAW—have some features and tools worth investigating/adopting/stealing.

The foremost one I'd like to see implemented is a truly context-sensitive right-click pop up menu.

The fewer trips away from my cursor, the better—you work faster when your tools are close at hand, in the same way you get more meat at dinner when the serving plate is closer to your fork. </attempt at humorous analogy>
Play "what if" with me for just a moment? The Shape tool is new and a really terrific too for someone who began with vector art in 1991 and had a "Line tool, deal with it" tool. But what if all the shapes could be accessed by a right click menu when the shape tool is clicked on?
And "what if" there was one editing tool for lines and control points, whose purpose is determined by holding Alt/Opt, Cmd?Ctrl? I've always learned new curse words when working in Illustrator with lines. Direct Select, Change Curve, Add Point, ya-dah-dah. All those tools are covered in Xara with one tool, and the commands are repeated on the context menu bar, somewhat redundantly. Quality over quantity.

Again, just a suggestion.
I didn't get a pony for Christmas so I'm accustomed to disappointments.
 
Happy 2019.
Or Else.

—Gary
 
 

Thank you for a vote of confidence, Petar.
I will mull a suggestion around a lot of times before posting, because I need to keep in mind that the Windows version of Designer is almost two years younger than the version for Mac.
 
Use all three mouse buttons—I learned that the wheel can also be used as a button from other graphics programs.
Use the context menu for what it's been used for.
"Any process the takes the artist away from their work is an unnecessary distraction." —some Microsoft engineer
When I'm not laughing, I'm crying at some of the awkward stunts Adobe Systems has pulled over the years with graphical interface programs. WHY, in God's name, do you fold a brilliant little program, Adobe Dimensions, into Illustrator...and then run the whole thing from within a proxy box?! A proxy box. Why didn't they go full bore and make it a command line feature?

Seriously, and not to rant at all (this forum is fun!); designers eat, breathe, think and work visually. If there is a short(er) graphical way of doing something—short of being bizarre—you just do it.
 
Thanks mightily!
 
—gare
 

Thank you for a vote of confidence, Petar.
I will mull a suggestion around a lot of times before posting, because I need to keep in mind that the Windows version of Designer is almost two years younger than the version for Mac.
 
Use all three mouse buttons—I learned that the wheel can also be used as a button from other graphics programs.
Use the context menu for what it's been used for.
"Any process the takes the artist away from their work is an unnecessary distraction." —some Microsoft engineer
When I'm not laughing, I'm crying at some of the awkward stunts Adobe Systems has pulled over the years with graphical interface programs. WHY, in God's name, do you fold a brilliant little program, Adobe Dimensions, into Illustrator...and then run the whole thing from within a proxy box?! A proxy box. Why didn't they go full bore and make it a command line feature?

Seriously, and not to rant at all (this forum is fun!); designers eat, breathe, think and work visually. If there is a short(er) graphical way of doing something—short of being bizarre—you just do it.
 
Thanks mightily!
 
—gare
 

Rick—
 
Unintentional gaffe in your post: "womone".

Someone, right?
Because I originally scanned it as woman, and the woman behind me became offended.
"It's so easy even a someone could use it!"
Happy New Year,
 
Gary

 

Sorry, it's not a piece of graphic artwortk, but rather a musical one (from a previous career!):
This is a digital download of about 60MB, of mp3 files.
It’s a mix of styles—from the 17th century, to jazz, and back again. I used digital sampling software and an occasional synthesizer to reproduce the wide range of instruments you’ll hear.

a standalone download page on my website

No nonsense, no self-center redirect. This is just from the heart of a fellow artist and his spouse, trying to put a little more love into this world.

Happy Holidays, all!

Gary and Barbara Bouton
<I used a number of different programs to draw the work, including a lot of you-know what, begins with an "A">
 

Sorry, it's not a piece of graphic artwortk, but rather a musical one (from a previous career!):
This is a digital download of about 60MB, of mp3 files.
It’s a mix of styles—from the 17th century, to jazz, and back again. I used digital sampling software and an occasional synthesizer to reproduce the wide range of instruments you’ll hear.

a standalone download page on my website

No nonsense, no self-center redirect. This is just from the heart of a fellow artist and his spouse, trying to put a little more love into this world.

Happy Holidays, all!

Gary and Barbara Bouton
<I used a number of different programs to draw the work, including a lot of you-know what, begins with an "A">
 

Sorry, it's not a piece of graphic artwortk, but rather a musical one (from a previous career!):
This is a digital download of about 60MB, of mp3 files.
It’s a mix of styles—from the 17th century, to jazz, and back again. I used digital sampling software and an occasional synthesizer to reproduce the wide range of instruments you’ll hear.

a standalone download page on my website

No nonsense, no self-center redirect. This is just from the heart of a fellow artist and his spouse, trying to put a little more love into this world.

Happy Holidays, all!

Gary and Barbara Bouton
<I used a number of different programs to draw the work, including a lot of you-know what, begins with an "A">
 

Sorry, it's not a piece of graphic artwortk, but rather a musical one (from a previous career!):
This is a digital download of about 60MB, of mp3 files.
It’s a mix of styles—from the 17th century, to jazz, and back again. I used digital sampling software and an occasional synthesizer to reproduce the wide range of instruments you’ll hear.

a standalone download page on my website

No nonsense, no self-center redirect. This is just from the heart of a fellow artist and his spouse, trying to put a little more love into this world.

Happy Holidays, all!

Gary and Barbara Bouton
<I used a number of different programs to draw the work, including a lot of you-know what, begins with an "A">
 

Sorry, it's not a piece of graphic artwortk, but rather a musical one (from a previous career!):
This is a digital download of about 60MB, of mp3 files.
It’s a mix of styles—from the 17th century, to jazz, and back again. I used digital sampling software and an occasional synthesizer to reproduce the wide range of instruments you’ll hear.

a standalone download page on my website

No nonsense, no self-center redirect. This is just from the heart of a fellow artist and his spouse, trying to put a little more love into this world.

Happy Holidays, all!

Gary and Barbara Bouton
<I used a number of different programs to draw the work, including a lot of you-know what, begins with an "A">
 

Just a thought: it's a fairly standard convention in some of the graphics programs I use, to just double-click the origin box joining the rulers to reset.
It's the first place I try when opening a new program and have screwed up the rulers.

Just a thought: it's a fairly standard convention in some of the graphics programs I use, to just double-click the origin box joining the rulers to reset.
It's the first place I try when opening a new program and have screwed up the rulers.

Just a thought: it's a fairly standard convention in some of the graphics programs I use, to just double-click the origin box joining the rulers to reset.
It's the first place I try when opening a new program and have screwed up the rulers.

I discovered a few really awful photos of a camera my Dad gave me when I was about 8 years old, a trusty, nearly indestructible AGFA. So I used what I could find as references on eBay, and took the approach that if an area isn't clear in any of the photos, I'd draw it that way.

I got on a roll last year with trying to shade very simple shapes elegantly in an effort to sort of put opposite qualities together in a single composition. I used TopMod to fuss around with a Platonic shape; it's a wonderful, free, therapeutic modeling program.

This is reproduction of an original paper cut diorama by Václav Bícha
http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2016/07/whimsical-layered-paper-cut-animal-illustrations-by-vaclav-bicha/
 
It's not perfect but it's a first draft.
 
Happy to accept recommendations of a better way to achieve this look?
How would you go about it? Is that different to how I've gone about it?
 
Maybe it would be better for me to group the objects into different depths, each with a different z-order and drop shadow?
 
attachment:
Paper Cut Sloth Diorama.afdesign
 

I discovered a few really awful photos of a camera my Dad gave me when I was about 8 years old, a trusty, nearly indestructible AGFA. So I used what I could find as references on eBay, and took the approach that if an area isn't clear in any of the photos, I'd draw it that way.

I discovered a few really awful photos of a camera my Dad gave me when I was about 8 years old, a trusty, nearly indestructible AGFA. So I used what I could find as references on eBay, and took the approach that if an area isn't clear in any of the photos, I'd draw it that way.

"Deep mole" was an unsuccessful play on all the spy stuff going on these days, sorry! "Bait and wait" would have been a better term. If a trial you're locked into "eats" your previous version, this is known in consumer circles as "bad"
May

I throw out an alternative: Digital Film Tools 55mm lens effects? I got this ages ago, and it installed under Win10 fine, although I don't have a lot of high hopes of finding future versions. The product seems to have been split in two, half video filters and half Photoshop now. Meps!

Filter Forge is my new fave f0or texture creation. It doesn't do a whole lot for photo enhancement, except for a preset called Pseudo HDR, actually a watercolor-type filter the likes of which I've not seen before! Example:

At the risk of being screamed at, we're talking about $50 U.S. for a new registration? Um, isn't that chicken feed to actually own, and not cloud-rent, a capable DTP program? Seriously, competitively speaking, what place does this put APub in?

I think my bottle returns are worth $50 this week; "chump change" is not worth sweating anything over.
 
My 2¢, devalued and cost-adjusted for Today's World™,
 
g

At the risk of being screamed at, we're talking about $50 U.S. for a new registration? Um, isn't that chicken feed to actually own, and not cloud-rent, a capable DTP program? Seriously, competitively speaking, what place does this put APub in?

I think my bottle returns are worth $50 this week; "chump change" is not worth sweating anything over.
 
My 2¢, devalued and cost-adjusted for Today's World™,
 
g

Oh, absolutely! That was "creative hyperbole" (for those can't say "exaggerate). I use inventive non-rational accounting to cover my software expenses. Software X is less than a set of snow tires, Software Y is 4 gallons of Haagen-Daz, and so on.

At the risk of being screamed at, we're talking about $50 U.S. for a new registration? Um, isn't that chicken feed to actually own, and not cloud-rent, a capable DTP program? Seriously, competitively speaking, what place does this put APub in?

I think my bottle returns are worth $50 this week; "chump change" is not worth sweating anything over.
 
My 2¢, devalued and cost-adjusted for Today's World™,
 
g

Guilty as charged, Constable. I will print a retraction. In 12 pt. Stempel Garamond—the only true version of the Claude Garamont renderings of the Eighteenth Century, September 15th, 14:00 Eastern Standard Military Time.

Full justification, dead leading, verso pages only.
 
Happy?