misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

@hystericempress Good stuff! Advanced use of layers, layer masks, and stacked effects are the best things ever and my love of playing with them sometimes stretches out the time spent on projects.

I have found so many different ways to experience Photoshop being bad at pixel art.

@g1comics Allow me to complicate the issue further by suggesting that pegasi, like their more directly avian gryphon friends, can see into the ultraviolet. Us groundwalkers can imagine all the fur colors we want and still only get halfway!

Positioned as a replacement for Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher holds several advantages:

• Much, much less expensive
• Doesn't extend tendrils into every crevice of the operating system
• User interface isn't a laggy shitshow
• Pretty good importing of the IDML format that InDesign happily exports
• Might be coaxed to work in Linux?

The biggest disadvantage I see immediately is that it lacks what InDesign calls "GREP styles" – regular expressions within paragraph styles that automatically apply character styles to matching text. I use these constantly, and they save me an immense amount of work. Doing without means a lot of applying character styles manually, which can be labor intensive but more importantly is very error-prone.

Even so, this might be the software I switch to. I want out of Adobe, and I want out of Windows. At the very least, I want the alternate options to be there, and the sooner I learn them the less painful it'll be if I have to make that move suddenly.

Oh, right, reminder to self to open up all my InDesign files and export 'em to IDML....