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- Hayzilla0
So ummm, anybody got the AE plugin Trapcode Particular? I followed a tutorial all morning only for the bastard to casually slip in the need for that but I don't want to spend £50 for a tutorial while I'm learning!
- google, add words crack, .zip and .rarshapesalad
- I've got it but considering Stardust now that (it's a) Trapcode is part of Maxon and now a subs model. No help I am.MrT
- Stardust is ok but I find it takes ages to get a decent setup.shapesalad
- Seems better to learn blender.shapesalad
- colin_s0
does anybody here actually still read blogs?
if so, can you link them up? ever since google reader ended and all of my enjoyed reading was just lost, i haven't rebuilt it much at all. links to all / any kinds welcome, just hoping for some solid stuff to read on a semi-regular basis
- No one reads anymore...just videos and pics are all the human brain can absorb during an internet session.utopian
- You need https://netnewswire.…grafician
- Sub stack just launched an RSS reader********
- sted3
Resurrect the Job board please.
I would like to add this:
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMircosoft APS team looking for an UX Product Manager for MS-Paint
- MS Paiiiiint!!!OBBTKN
- QBN still has the job board
https://www.krop.com…utopian
- WhiteFace0
Need a new laptop, any suggestions that aren't a 5k MacBook?
- MBP 14" M1 with 16GB and 512GB SSD
is just 1.2ksted - ^ Worth the buy, too.Continuity
- *Strokes his new MBP 14" M1 with 16GB and 512GB SSD*Continuity
- HP Zbookdrgs
- Sted... 1,2k??? Apple store, this machine: 2,249k €!!OBBTKN
- 14" with M1 Pro/32GB/1TB = 3K €grafician
- MBP 14" M1 with 16GB and 512GB SSD
are only $450******** - SurfacebookFax_Benson
- MBP 14" M1 with 16GB and 512GB SSD
- HijoDMaite5
Sucks I got stuck with this GMC rental for a few days. Oh well.
- PICK A LANE!GuyFawkes
- The Thingdoggydoggdog
- KANEDA!!!!futurefood
- Drgs Alert!
Paging Drgs!
Drgs Alert!
Paging Drgs!utopian
- doggydoggdog0
I want to do some product-type shots for my portfolio, an ongoing project.
Is good lighting an an iPhone Pro enough?
Or should I buy a DSLR?
Which DSLR?- Dslr prob. overkill for web sharing. But ey, I'm not a photo nerdOBBTKN
- What’s your budget?futurefood
- Imo the resolution is just ok for 8x10 print. With some good lighting and limitation, it's definitely doable.pango
- There are tons of videos on YT of people show casing how they take product photography with smart phone camera.pango
- With some external LED lights, yeah, the iPhone Ultra does a great jobgrafician
- I can’t stand how the iPhone lens distorts at close range.monospaced
- Yepshapesalad
- use the telephoto lens!grafician
- You want pro-quality, you need good stuff and pro-level skills. If you don't care about that, then don't care and use a phone.formed
- Any dslr will do. Used. Get a decent macro lens. Laowa seems to have some good options for cheap. A couple flashes/triggers would help immensely. Try yongnuo.monNom
- Product photography is all about lighting, so with that stuff and some creativity in backdrops/light modifiers, you should be able to achieve excellent resultsmonNom
- Yes. Lighting and other accessories are actually more important for product.pango
- drgs2
Slept for 10 hours. Woke up and immediately started cleaning the apartment
- Paul McCartney considers rewrite.********
- ^lolkingsteven
- Ah life without kids. Otherwise you’d wake up at 6am and be cleaning the house.monospaced
- what is this mythical 10 hours sleep you speak offadein11
- Its been a rough weekdrgs
- Paul McCartney considers rewrite.
- NBQ001
I’m constantly charging devices.
iPad Pro, phone, gaming controller, wireless headphones, shaver, trackpad, etc.
When will there be a battery revolution so charging something once a week is enough?
- Some day, with over-the-air charging you won't have to worry about that anymore.spl33nidoru
- Get a classic double edge razor, no need to charge it, more quiet and relaxing to use it.shapesalad
- You forgot to mention your girlfriends dildo, don't forget to charge that one.shapesalad
- Adult life is just charging devices at this pointgrafician
- Stop shaving?Chimp
- Get a beard, be freeOBBTKN
- All these products worked as wired********
- ********2
A Giga Karen is just your average Tara
- pango2
How many of you thinks there will be a time in your life when you are compelled to make a decision to join the army or not?
- That depends on how sexy the uniforms are and whether i get a robot dog or notscarabin
- Yes and yespango
- I could see the draft coming back in Canada if shit hits the fan over in Europe. Sucks, but the alternative seems worse.monNom
- but that's compulsory. i was talking about if you would be compelled to enlistingpango
- Dont fret, you'd get a deferment on (lack of) intelligence grounds********
- LOL Sound like you're describing your self. Gene therapy and the free dumb convoy army LOLpango
- Only in defensedrgs
- Like... as a graphic designer for the army???********
- Does the army need weak-ass 45 year olds?********
- I would love to change career to F-35 pilotNBQ00
- Army of me.shapesalad
- monNom's nailed it, I think. If this war spills out into Nato territory in Europe (which I fear it might), all bets are off.Continuity
- That said, I highly doubt the Canadian Forces would conscript me. 48, heavy smoker, wears glasses.Continuity
- Would I think about enlisting voluntarily, though? Yeah, I think so. I'd pretty much be morally obligated to, if that situation ever comes to pass.Continuity
- Lol nbqHijoDMaite
- @Continuity perfect age, i guess no kids, you can inhale the same amount of shit during battle &glasses? here is your reconnaissance equipment. good luck.sted
- Think about this often, there are worse ways to go than fighting and dying for your country or even the country of your ancestors._niko
- ********3
Name: Jim
Job Title: Sr. Web Designer and partner
Location: Detroit, MI
Salary/Income: 190k/year and some company benefitsK what’s blowing my mind is that this isn’t totally unrealistic anymore. Time is wild.
- find me a senior web designer in Detroit making 190k/year_niko
- Many people work remotely these days. You may have heard something about it on the news********
- remote salaries are location-based, nobody is paying you $190K if you work from Alaskagrafician
- Jim doesn’t live in Alaska********
- I know Sr Designers who aren’t partners making pretty close to this in Pittsburgh and Austin********
- And I don’t know that many peoples salaries********
- Jim is a motherfucking partner. He earns every penny that baller. Y’all just jelly.monospaced
- And we have designers in remote locations like Alaska that make plenty close to this. Of course it’s possible.monospaced
- I know creative directors in big agencies in Toronto that don’t make that kind of money, what sr designer is pulling that in Pittsburg and Austin?_niko
- Genuinely curious because that sounds ridiculously high for that position._niko
- I’m not lying. I’m including bonus & equity which for the two people I know they ARE getting this. Both of them work remote.********
- I know one Senior designer who works on a tiny app and makes $150k plus some stock but I don’t know the value of the stock********
- Amazon, Microsoft, google, meta, Spotify, square are starting to pay salaries like this. Netflix even higher but they don’t allow remote.********
- @_niko yes, Canada sucks for pay. Even in Toronto.********
- Ok yeah makes sense especially in bigger companies but that’s got to be at the far end of the bell curve_niko
- Yes to be fair it is at the high end, absolutely. But these are Sr Designers, they’re not well known or have awards or anything.********
- A friend from Google in NYC (non-designer) moved to Toronto mid-pandemic. They cut his pay 30%!!! Savage.********
- Did a quick search on LinkedIn for Sr Designer. Adobe has a UI role listed at 101k-155k. Adobe is pretty good but not the highest of salaries out there.********
- GO GET THAT BREAD BOYZ********
- I run a small studio with my partner and we kill ourselves wearing different 10 hats plus hustling clients working 24 hours/day to make fuck all it seems._niko
- Maybe Jim’s got the right idea after all lol_niko
- Running a design studio is so fucking hard. I hear ya********
- Gardener0
Due to family complaints of the "scary picture" I had originally put into this frame in the downstairs loo, I have put together a collage of some old concert tickets which I guess is slightly less offensive, no complaints so far...
- original too scary pic
https://i.imgur.com/…Gardener - Lol Flemming lipspango
- Not that Flemming lips is funny but anyone thinks it's scary is funny.pango
- original too scary pic
- Nairn0
Just found out that an old friend who got involved in some crypto/virtual space thing has been making in the region of £30k a month for the last wee while, and his partner in crime is a multi-multi-millionaire.
Of course, I'm very happy for him, but as equally, I think I'm going to go and drown myself in the local canal.
- Said friend spent about four years living in total squalor in a barely-done warehouse conversion, so his change in circumstance in a few short years is amazing.Nairn
- The total cunt.
And to think I thought he was wasting his life on that shit. hahahahahNairn - Nice.shapesalad
- Don’t despair. Eventually, everyone ends up in that canal.********
- hahahahaNairn
- drgs2
Janne in subnotes?
https://www.qbn.com/reply/405160…
- NBQ003
Is it possible to change careers from art director/ graphic designer to F-35 jet pilot?
I'm currently practicing flying with Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- you have to be mentally stableGuyFawkes
- which none of us here areGuyFawkes
- no, you're too old.imbecile
- i feel like 20NBQ00
- hiredpinkfloyd
- Better learn DSC. https://www.youtube.…Chimp
- "The F35 is a strike aircraft that can defend its self" https://www.youtube...
ChimpChimp - you can definitely get a pilot licence. f-35 pilot is a different story. but hey dont let us tell you what you can or cant do.pango
- LOL...shapesalad
- You need to have 20/20 vision, no allergies, can't be too tall or too short, and pass your exam before you're 33.garbage
- (I know you're joking, but I just know this because I had an a-hole cousin that broke down in tears when he found out his allergies kept him out of the cockpit)garbage
- You can in the metaverse!********
- imbecile32
Feel good story time.
I live in a private neighborhood. You either live here or are visiting the area, as there is no through traffic. The only business is a nursing home in the very back of the development where it's always quiet. Being so, you occasionally see a few older people out for a walk using walkers. Another has a rascal and has stopped by to discuss my vehicles on occasion when I've been outside.
Yesterday, I was getting a new dryer, so I asked my most supplied neighbor if I could borrow his dolly to make moving the old and new units around a bit easier. Fast forward to completing the wiring in my garage with a friend that afternoon and I walk across the street to return said dolly.
Upon return, an older gentleman has appeared in the street in front of my house resting on his walker seat. I ask him if everything is all right and he responds "Yes, just needed to take a break. A wheel has come off my walker." What!? I say as I sit on the curb and yep, this guy is doing three wheel motion with a bunch of smashed bearing pieces floating on an open axle.
He tells me he has the wheel and pulls it from his walker seat. Aside from an unneeded race from the destroyed bearing still inserted in the wheel, it looks like a skateboard bearing will fit perfectly on each side.
I ask him to head into the garage as I go inside to grab a set of bearings. A flathead screwdriver and a hemmer later, the old race is out and two JuJu bearings seat right in. I take the nut off, pull the out smashed pieces of the old bearing and it glides right on. I tighten the nut to tension, so the wheel doesn't shake and it rolls smooth as butter.
Elated, and visibly moved, he introduces himself as Kendall asking what he owes me, before telling me the local medical supply store was going to charge $150 for the repair. I introduce myself in return stating there is no need for compensation.
He then asked if the red car in the back of my garage is mine. I tell him yes, it's a 1957 Thunderbird. He says it's beautiful and remembers them from being a kid before telling me he was born in 1948.
He thanks me again for everything and I tell him if any of the other three wheels give him a problem to come back. Then he rolls down my driveway to continue on his walk.
Best day in a while.
- Helping others is the best of all feelings. It's touching to see how alone and helpless certain elders are...OBBTKN
- Good on you! I'm surprised they used standard skateboard-size bearings - I'd expect them to use astandard ones, like my kid's fucking pram does.Nairn
- When they started going, I thought I was being super- clever popping down to the local skate shop, but nup. Found equivs on eBay, so not end of the world.Nairn
- Nice one. It's shocking how elders are overlooked in the west compared with some eastern cultures.mort_
- I came here to check on Ukraine news and keep forgetting that there is good news out there too. Thanks. (And nice car.)Longcopylover
- You come here to check on Ukraine news? LOLmort_
- Nice!scarabin
- So nice of you! Thanks for the good news.SimonFFM
- this definitely put a HUGE smile on my face :)
you did good buddy.exador1 - Good imbecilegarbage
- Yes dude!stoplying
- thumbs up!********
- Awesome! But, you live in a private neighborhood and have a 1957 thunderbird laying around?ArmandoEstrada
- @mort_ Yeah, it's just all the world news combined here and I can choose what to believe. :)Longcopylover
- Nairn, same. felt serendipitous that it fit. Armando, not an HOA or anything, just a small division off a main road with no through streets.imbecile
- As far as the '57 Thunderbird just laying around in my garage, yes. People often try to buy it. Not the only garage I keep vehicles in, either.imbecile
- Gen X looking out for Boomers. Love it********
- We need more of this kinda stuff in life, for one day we will all be old. Wonder if someone can open a QBN day care centre...shapesalad
- Bravo imbecile!Krassy
- Need to see photos of the Thunderbird and the upgraded walkerKrassy
- Krassy4
what's QBN's bestest thread?
- Toilet of the Dayduckseason
- Comb-over of the Day********
- https://www.qbn.com/…scarabin
- Putin = HeroMilan
- https://www.qbn.com/…Krassy
- what are you listening to...grafician
- Handshake of the dayfuturefood
- ^ +1Krassy
- Chick of the dayNBQ00
- It used to be FoodContinuity