I had an image to which I'd added a layer with some graphics. The person for whom I was doing the editing wanted a version with the graphics removed. I had five minutes to do the work. I found the image in Lightroom, and told Lr to open the original file in Photoshop. Then I … [Read more...]

I wish that this were true... The historical data makes sense, but the target is from an alternate universe in which my fifteen minutes of fame takes place.   … [Read more...]

I thought I'd see if I had any updates to my Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) applications. I fired up the CC container app, and saw that it wanted to update itself. Note that there is no option to not apply the update: I said Update. Then I saw this: I visited the … [Read more...]

A 1 Gb/s Ethernet connection can't keep up with modern disks or the processors in Synology NAS boxes. For those of you with really deep pockets, there are Synology boxes with 10 Gb/s interfaces and 10 gigabit Ethernet switches to match, but for the rest of us, there's link … [Read more...]