Speaking for myself, Iām on the interest list for one light, but Iāll more than likely be buying 2-3 more after the initial rush. Plus, Iām quite sure all my friends are gonna want one when they see mine. I think you could figure on 5-6x more demand than what has been voiced here. Not to mention other retail sales from recommendations on reddit or wherever else. I hope thatās motivation enough to get this into production ASAP. This flashlight will be a gold mine for those selling them.
55 posts, many of them tense, in about 12 hours because, after bemoaning the lack of photos or other updates, we (collectively) didnāt recognize a thread relief when a photo was finally posted.
Iām starting to think this thread should be locked until the light is ready to ship.
Agreed, quite different. Yet more questions than answers. Again.
Guessing that is only TKās proto2. It seems we are now up to at least 3 , or even 4, and so it still seems to keep on evolving, at least in some peopleās dreams.
Photoshop is a lot easier. If you actually want to get things done, and are prepared to pay, or otherwise, obtain it.
Irfan View does the basic jobs and is lightweight. But Faststone Image viewer is far more powerful (basically a clone of ACDSee, my mainstay, and worth the money)
Iāve never heard of Affinity Photo. But I just looked it up and it does seem nice. Iāve been a GIMP user for years. Iāve never used Photoshop. Iām not anything like a professional user, but I have learned how to do some moderately advanced things with GIMP. Photoshop and Affinity Photo still have quite a few very advanced features that Gimp lacks.
Iāve spent time with a bunch of image editors, and have been using GIMP and Photoshop since the 1990s. I even made my own paint program / image editor once, designed mostly around demoscene effects. But I find GIMP suits me best, and is the most intuitive for me. Part of it is because itās trivially easy to assign arbitrary keyboard shortcuts, part is because it lets my window manager do its job instead of trying to manage everything itself in a single window, and part is just that it has the types of tools I want.
In the past, Photoshop was a lot better if you needed color spaces other than greyscale or RGB, but GIMP recently overhauled its engine to fix that sort of issue. It always had a wider and more advanced variety of image-processing tools, often getting brand new stuff from SIGGRAPH long before other programs, but its core architecture has also gotten a lot more mature over time.
I wouldnāt use either one for diagrams or for painting though. There are better tools for those tasks, like Inkscape for diagrams and Krita for painting. GIMP is mostly designed for photo editing.
Itās hard to go wrong with any decent image editor though. There is no shortage of genuinely good imaging software these days.