Yvonne wanted Jennys Lammtopf for dinner today. Problem: my recipe states 200 g of filling for me,
and 120 for Yvonne. And we only had 160 g. OK, give it to
her and I'll eat something else (curries that Yvonne doesn't like).
Problem: the numbers don't add up. The total was 80% of what I had for myself in the
recipe, but the pot was nearly overflowing:
The year is coming to an end, and with it the plans for my yearly annual newsletter. That should include a photo of
Yvonne and myself, along with as many animals as we can keep
still. Here last year's photo:
That was done with Hugin. But we
had decided to repeat the views every 10 years, so the coming photo should look something
like this, taken in December 2015:
OK, a clear-cut case for backgroung replacement. As planned last week, time to look at Affinity. There's quite an
understandable video on
the topic. First step is to load the image and choose the owl icon in the left-hand icon
column:
But my display wasn't like that. It seems to have been completely rearranged. The
left-hand column was only about half as wide, and all the incomprehensible icons had been
replaced by other incomprehensible icons:
And that's on a 1920×1080 display. On my normal 3840×2160 display the icons are only half
as wide again, about 3 mm. When I click on the third from the top, I get a message telling
me yes, this is the object selection tool:
But that's as far as I got. It told me to click on the object (myself in this case) and it
would be selected. But that didn't happen. Instead a tiny popup appeared elsewhere in the
image, so far from where I was working that I didn't notice it at first:
But then things seemed to start working by themselves. At least the cursor changed shape.
But I still couldn't select the part of the image. Off looking for answers: this is
Affinity 3, and all the videos refer to versions 2 or 1. I should have seen that from the
old video (9 months!) and the different logo. Written documentatation? That's an old,
worn-out magic word. After some time searching, I still couldn't find out how to do things.
In passing, I'm getting more and more fed up with the lack of scalability in “modern”
software, maybe because of my “high resolution” monitors that can display almost 10% of my
high resolution photos at a time. Why can't they scale to the size on the display rather
than to the number of pixels? My main displays have 167 pixels per inch, way more than the
75 or 100 that were once considered normal.
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