On our way again

By On 11/09/2021

We’re on our way again, and will let the weather decide where we are going. For now we are at the Atlantic coast in France, the ‘Opal Coast’ just south of Calais. If you look very carefully, you may be able to see England at the horizon in the second photo. Weather permitting we’ll go […]

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Back home for the high season

By On 06/08/2021

We are back home now to avoid the high season. Around September we plan to be on the road again. One of the advantages of owning a camper is that you can easily decide to cut short a trip, because of the weather. If you have rented the vehicle, it would be a waste of […]

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Start of a new life

By On 04/07/2021

Our brand new camper arrived some time ago, and now that my wife has officially retired from her job, we have all the time in the world to travel. I haven’t completely retired myself, but I can work from anywhere. We decided to stay in our own country for our first trip, due to the […]

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Photoshop ‘Save a copy’ fix

By On 08/06/2021

Adobe just released Photoshop 22.4.2 which fixes the most annoying thing with the “Save as” problem, that was described in the previous post. In the preferences you can now either enable ‘legacy save as’ (ideal for Windows users), or you can tell Photoshop not to add the word ‘copy’ to the name of files saved […]

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Photoshop deja vu

By On 15/05/2021

Many years ago, the Photoshop ‘Save as’ dialog would only show options like TIFF and PSD when you added layers to your image, or used 16 bits/color. The reason was simple: because JPEG does not support layers or more than 8 bits/color, that could not be an option because that would require Photoshop to flatten […]

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Another 10 years later

By On 09/04/2021

Ten years ago today, I was in Istanbul (Turkey) for the TIPA General Assembly. Istanbul was chosen because TIPA had recently expanded its membership to include members from Asia and Australia, and this city is literally on the border between Europe and Asia. How different things are today! There is still no chance to organise […]

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