Windows Woes!

PapaBear

PapaBear

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Well, looks like my 20-year-old desktop isn't compatible with Windows 11, I'd been thinking about upgrading it for the last year or so, went down to Best Buy and grabbed an all in one to replace it, now the fun of setting up and transferring 20 years' worth of stuff. Think I'll go through and clean out some old files first.
 
I did this last year. My 12 year old pc wouldn’t upgrade and I couldn’t run the new photoshop on it as my graphics card wasn’t up to it. I ended up building a new one with my son supervising at his place. Luckily I got in before all the price increases on parts.
 
I just had to replace my 11 year old MacBook, it wouldn’t run the tax software. It works great for everything else. I still use it for photoshop among other things. New Mac silicone isn’t compatible with the old photoshop.
 
X570 motherboard AMD 5950X, 128gb Ram.. AIO Watercooled and a MSI 5080 here.. My build is a few years old and upgraded here and there. 3 of my teens motherboards weren't compatible with 11 so we just recently built all three of theirs.. that hurt the wallet for sure..
 
I won't get the recent photoshop versions. I still use a perfectly good photoshop which doesn't have AI. As for computers I am lucky to have a brother who works in computing doing stuff that I can't comprehend because it's genius level non-intelligible to normal people stuff. He loves nothing more than buying cameras and computers, so over the years I have benefitted from some very nice camera lens and computer cast-offs. I only use Mac and he uses both.

And there's no way I'm putting tax software on anything!
 
HamishR said:
I won't get the recent photoshop versions. I still use a perfectly good photoshop which doesn't have AI. As for computers I am lucky to have a brother who works in computing doing stuff that I can't comprehend because it's genius level non-intelligible to normal people stuff. He loves nothing more than buying cameras and computers, so over the years I have benefitted from some very nice camera lens and computer cast-offs. I only use Mac and he uses both.

And there's no way I'm putting tax software on anything!
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Yup. Photoshop version 24.7.5 is the latest before all the generative stuff got implemented. Took quite some searching to get my hands on a ehm... Cyrillic installer.
 
Huh. Mine's 25.1.0 and if it has AI in there I haven't seen it! I tend to use it for basic retouching though, nothing drastic. And since I retired I'm mainly using it to retouch PCB images! (I'm not that old - I have had an early retirement owing to dramatically changing work conditions!)
 
HamishR said:
Huh. Mine's 25.1.0 and if it has AI in there I haven't seen it! I tend to use it for basic retouching though, nothing drastic. And since I retired I'm mainly using it to retouch PCB images! (I'm not that old - I have had an early retirement owing to dramatically changing work conditions!)
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Ah, the silent / polite introduction of AI. The good old days where it wasn't in your face, screaming from the UI "Use me! Use me!"
 
OMG - what have I done?? AI will/has killed the creative industries. I don't want it on my computer. Maybe if I ignore it for long enough it will get bored and go somewhere else. It's one of the factors driving my early retirement as a photographer.
 
HamishR said:
OMG - what have I done?? AI will/has killed the creative industries. I don't want it on my computer. Maybe if I ignore it for long enough it will get bored and go somewhere else. It's one of the factors driving my early retirement as a photographer.
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To be fair, there is so much going on in Photoshop that's hidden from me. Wouldn't notice early AI hanging out among the less used / unused stuff. It's probably there with the algorithmic "neural" stuff like background removal.

Generative fill and a removal tool was the first thing they did. Love all the ethics stuff in that post. 🥲

blog.adobe.com

The future of Photoshop is here with Generative AI and new innovations to accelerate creative workflows | Adobe Blog

Major improvements to some of the most popular workflows in Photoshop are here — removing and replacing content, changing the overall look of an image, and increasing UI navigation speed.
blog.adobe.com
 
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I'm just glad I'm not starting out now. As much as I did really like digital photography for the amount of control it gave me and the disappearance of film and lab costs I have to admit that the job was a lot more fun when we shot on film. We had to be so much more creative. It was frequently hilarious. The job went from being creative and solving numerous problems to shooting headshots and wine bottles against a white background.

I really miss the days of working out how we were going to shoot stuff. Now it's all done on a computer. Yawn. And it all looks the same. Shooting on film was stressful but that kept you on your toes. We went to a lot of trouble to get a good shot and the effort was usually worth it and very satisfying. I miss that more than I realised for a long time. I also miss the social side of going to the lab, bumping into other photographers there, getting to know the people who sold you the film and lighting, etc... My wife doesn't miss the fridge full of film though.
 
HamishR said:
I'm just glad I'm not starting out now. As much as I did really like digital photography for the amount of control it gave me and the disappearance of film and lab costs I have to admit that the job was a lot more fun when we shot on film. We had to be so much more creative. It was frequently hilarious. The job went from being creative and solving numerous problems to shooting headshots and wine bottles against a white background.

I really miss the days of working out how we were going to shoot stuff. Now it's all done on a computer. Yawn. And it all looks the same. Shooting on film was stressful but that kept you on your toes. We went to a lot of trouble to get a good shot and the effort was usually worth it and very satisfying. I miss that more than I realised for a long time. I also miss the social side of going to the lab, bumping into other photographers there, getting to know the people who sold you the film and lighting, etc... My wife doesn't miss the fridge full of film though.
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Oh yeah, I worked at a camera store for 12years starting in the 90s. Digital slowly put it out of business.
 
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