Technical Difficulties

A 50-post collection

I am frustrate

I was so proud of myself, this morning. I went from scribble-sketch to proper sketch to neat inks in one morning. I was so happy, I wanted to try colouring the thing, or at least making a start on colouring the thing...

But Procreate wasn't co-operating. It now refuses to let me use the airbrush tool and, for a while, it wasn't letting me use the tablet pen.

It would work elsewhere, just not in Procreate.

After backing the iPad Pro up on my compy, I got pen functionality back, but I still can't use the airbrush tools for completely unknown reasons.

I would really rather not have to purge the program from my iPad and re-install it. Everything I know about doing that seems like it's going to be a pain in my arse.

Still, I have learned how to import PSD's and palettes, so there's that much less of a sore derriere for yours truly.

In other news, our PLNs today include seeing a movie with the little darlings as a sort of last-day-of-freedom deal.

If I can - and that's an important 'if' - I want to finish colouring the current frame so that I'm prepared for the root canal if that becomes necessary. I don't want it to be necessary, but it's starting to feel like it might be. Like... I can get by on the pen tools? But I don't want to.

I know what it isn't. It isn't a space problem, because there's oodles of space left on the iPad. It isn't a pen problem, because the pen works in all other apps and all other in-app tools. The layer isn't alpha locked, because I can use the other tools in there. I just did some colouring to be certain.

It's a problem with airbrush and only airbrush and I do not know how to fix it. Yet.

But I owe y'all a story today, so I'd better get on with that, first.

Bug'rem bug'rit...

State of affairs: One out of three scheduled posts happened as I think I scheduled them. The others, set allegedly two hours apart, didn't. And that scheduled post happened seven hours ago, now.

Fun times.

I'm just going to let those other two go, for the majority of today, because today is all about Chaos' Adventures at the Orthodontist. Yes, today Miss Chaos is getting Government Brackets for her skewed teeth. I'll probably have to shell out some kind of cash and

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Technically technical difficulties

Okay, so here’s the scoop.

While I was over in Thailand, I used a (gasp) foreign chip so I wouldn’t be landed upon by positively ginormous roaming charges. And so I could, you know, call home without also gathering a huge debt.

Now that I’m home and back on my regular chip, my computer refuses to recognise that there’s photos in there at all. And I know for a fact that I have almost

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