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available in 64 or 256GB, and supposedly it A Great Photoshop
has a 10-hour battery life. Unlike the new iPad
Pros, it still has a Lighting connector and not Alternative
the new C-connector. Your choices of colors
are space gray, silver or gold.
A Great Photoshop Alternative
By Sheila Swaikowski, Webmaster, The
PCUG of Connecticut
March issue, The Program
www.TPCUG-CT.org
sswaikowski (at) yahoo.com
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tion program much like Photoshop.
imp is a great free image manipula-
As I mentioned, the iPad Mini didn’t change at Here is a YouTube link to a 13+ minute video
all. It still has the 7.9-inch display although the of a basic beginners’ guide that I found very
camera has been moved, therefore you may helpful: Q8C0LJPpr64.mp4. It is entitled ‘How
have to purchase a new case for it to fit. With to Use Gimp (A Beginners Guide)’ and pro-
the new A12 processor (same as the iPhone duced by TechGumbo. According to the in-
6), you will see a little boost in speed. Like the structor, Gimp is one of the top five best free
iPad Air, you can choose between either 64GB Photoshop alternatives and his favorite.
or 256GB. And again, the old Lighting connect-
or remains, but you get the Pencil support. The
color choices are the same as the iPad Air. The video begins by showing where to go
(gimp.org) to download Gimp and walks you
through the whole download process. Then it
goes over the layout you should see when you
start Gimp: the primary window in the center,
the toolbox on the left and the layers window
on the right.
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Chuckles
I’ve been uplinked and downloaded. I’ve been
imputed and outsourced. I know the upside of
downsizing; I know the downside of upgrading.
I’m a high-tech lowlife. A cutting-edge, state-of
=================================== -the-art, bicoastal multitasker and I can give
you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.-
GEORGE CARLIN
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