02-23-2014, 11:46 PM
@meat: ha! The grass is always greener. Especially in NZ. It bloody rains all the frikkin time in Wellington!
@yolo, keen to see what you would do!
@ Chantal. Yes yes yes. Brilliant and useful stuff. I know you're into trad, (something I really have been neglecting, and want to do more of). I'm totally with you on the monitors and mounts, nothing better than an easy rotate screen. I code for a day job, so I understand the benefit....it's funny how many people don't know what they are missing with that. :). Also having worked on a 17" for two years, I am over it, and am going Large. The more monitor radiation burn the better! I am considering getting a backup tablet because I already had a bamboo, and it totally saved my ass when my intous died (granted, after 5 years)...and now that it got stolen, my resoldered intuos is going to be my stand in, while I sort my other equipment out. I will never pooh pooh a backup ever again. Thanks for the tips on the plein air setup, I think I know what you're talking about...will pm you if I can't figure it out :)
I'm also over load sharing for cloud storage. One dedicated account will do me. 100 a year isn't so much for dropbox...I probably won't need it right away as I already have 70gb or something in my free account. And yes to the lights and ref stuff. Might have to put those on the nice to have for now, but totally useful.
@yolo, keen to see what you would do!
@ Chantal. Yes yes yes. Brilliant and useful stuff. I know you're into trad, (something I really have been neglecting, and want to do more of). I'm totally with you on the monitors and mounts, nothing better than an easy rotate screen. I code for a day job, so I understand the benefit....it's funny how many people don't know what they are missing with that. :). Also having worked on a 17" for two years, I am over it, and am going Large. The more monitor radiation burn the better! I am considering getting a backup tablet because I already had a bamboo, and it totally saved my ass when my intous died (granted, after 5 years)...and now that it got stolen, my resoldered intuos is going to be my stand in, while I sort my other equipment out. I will never pooh pooh a backup ever again. Thanks for the tips on the plein air setup, I think I know what you're talking about...will pm you if I can't figure it out :)
I'm also over load sharing for cloud storage. One dedicated account will do me. 100 a year isn't so much for dropbox...I probably won't need it right away as I already have 70gb or something in my free account. And yes to the lights and ref stuff. Might have to put those on the nice to have for now, but totally useful.