Making Like a Little Postcard

We're making like a little postcard, I'm really like John Madden on the screen right now. There's supposed to be some space there by the way, that's, that's a space (laughing). And then some squiggly. Let's do pink for the heart. And there we go, that's our little Cloud Gate postcard. Look at that. Oh, not too shabby, right? Let's save this out so we don't lose our work. Save it as a PhotoShop document.

We did have a lot of different formats here. PixilPaint, QDV, RAW, MacPaint, CompuServe, JIF. When we wanna send this to our friends and enemies, we can save it as a, as a PICT file or a TIF I guess. Let's just save it as a PICT file. Put that on the desktop. Greetings from Cloud Gate.

That's a lot of resolution. We don't really need 20 bits, 24 bits per pixel. The watch spins around and around. Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future. I won't pass up on a decent Steve Miller joke opportunity ever. Here's what the PhotoShop document icon is by the way. It's a little film canister with a piece of film sticking out.

So yeah, that's the old icon. So here's our Cloud Gate postcard. We have two megabits on disk. PhotoShop document. Oh another discovery I just made is that you can actually perform certain edits while in full screen mode, which is pretty fun. So like if I do Command-H, I can summon my hue and saturation adjustments while looking at the picture in full screen mode, which is pretty cool.

Command-M, arbitrary map. I'm guessing that's something kind of like curves. Let's see, I know, let's see. I think Command-L is levels. If I had to guess. Adjust levels, yep. So we can adjust some brightness and the shadows and highlights. Ah, I'm not sure familiar with how this part of the interface works.

Oh yeah, as you can see it's adjusting the whole interface. See, it's adjusting the whole interface until I hit preview. Oh man, I didn't even notice that. When you move the window around, the affect goes away temporarily. Probably because, probably because it can't redraw any motion while the effect is applied.

Yeah. That's what we had to work with. Let's see if there's any other goodies on here. Documents. Pictures. Pictures, pictures, pictures. I've no idea what some of these pictures even are. I'm just gonna randomly guess, because I seriously have no clue. Oh it's of a PowerBook. How fitting.

Well that looks cool. Let's give it a nice black and white look. Now we could just change the, like the color mode. Or we can be daring and apply a filter. Which, no we can't actually. For some reason the filters are blurred out. Oh, because it's index that's right. Hang on, let's set it to RGB.

Let's say we wanna give it a vintage look but we don't wanna go full black and white. We maybe just wanna wash it out a bit. So, let's go to hue and saturation. Bring the saturation way down. Give it some time to calculate. There it goes. And now we can be like, hmm, it's missing a little something. Maybe like a little, like a sepia. So we can say adjust, let's go to the hue and saturation again.

And we'll colorize it. And we'll give it a little bit of a, maybe like a little bit of a tan look. See how that comes out. It probably will look like shit, but. We'll see. And there it goes. So now it has a bit of a very kind of brownish, vintagy, sepia look. Beautiful, maw, that's a masterpiece.

And I think that will make the client very happy. Especially considering we're doing this on .63 beta PhotoShop. Let's throw that on the desktop. Bon appa-tit. Well shit. The disk is full. Oops. But we'll save it with a lot less color. And there we go, mission accomplished.

That worked just fine. Let's quit that. And there we have our beautiful masterpieces. In fact I put so much work into these, I should really put them where they belong. There we go. Well that was a lot of fun. Thanks for joining with me. And let me know if you have any other suggestions for old software you want me to try out. The Macintosh TV and the Macintosh IIci are my new Petri dishes for experimenting with software on the 68K architecture. Thanks for tagging along.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- And there it goes.You can see it quickly overtaking the citywith a green toxic haze.Everybody is gonna die now.Bon appa-tit.Well, shit (laughing).The disk is full.Oops.Oh, yeah, that's beautiful.(beeping)(upbeat electronic music)Hey guys, how are you all doing?Really that's just great.I'm doing pretty great today toobecause we have a fun little projectthat has been given to us today.We need to make a couple littlethings inside of PhotoShop.But as part of an experiment,we need to make these projectsinside of PhotoShop .63 Beta.We're talking software from 1988.Running on this MacintoshTV with a 68K processorand eight megabytes of RAM.Oh boy, this is going to be good.Here we go.System 7.1.The software is from 1992.The operating system.And PhotoShop is from 1988.There we go.Eight megs of memory.So as you can see ifhave System 7 configuredwith some color and an extended Apple menuand stuff like that.If you wanna see some moreMacintosh TV shenanigans,do check out the otherepisodes I have for you.But for today, let's havesome fun in PhotoShop.The icon was actually a PhotoShop.Let's go to the about.Here we go, PhotoShop .63 from 1988.Thomas Knoll.All right, let's do some stuff.So it's been a while since I've used this,but I did make a demo video of thismany years ago and ifI remember correctly,you have one level ofundo and just one layer.We take that stuff for granted nowadayswith our virtual unlimited layersand our history stepbacks and all that stuff.But yeah, this was it back then.We can experiment withmaking a new document.We can just do like five,12, by five, 12 here.Now here is something cool I accidentallybumped into a while ago.When you set certain colorsettings inside of PhotoShop,that doesn't always rendersolely inside the view port here.Like I set it to a monochrome document.But now the whole Macintoshinterface is monochrome.I guess it was just fasterto compute that way.Oh, that's a zoom in tool.Okay, now we know that.Now I'm at 200%.I don't know how to undo that.Okay, zoom out, oh, command minus.That's pretty common nowadays.Select foreground color.Well that's a lot of black.Let's brighten this up to, there we go.There's our colors.Oh this must be out of a 16-bit value.Oh, yeah, I was thinking it was 8-bit.But yeah, 65535.16-bit.I can like paint.I can like do that.Oh man, yeah, if you go too fast,you're gonna get a lot ofpolygonal results there.Okay, let's undo that.But as you can also seethere's some dithering therewith our limited color palette.And I'm guessing, yeah, we're in RGB.Because yeah, like I see,I think you double click it.Yeah, that's right.Okay, so if we wannamake the brush bigger,we can change the shape.We can change the pressure.A lot of controls.I mean, we're talking a 1988 program.I mean, this is, this is pretty cool.And it does support color capabilities.So now we can do like someairbrush strokes there.Look at that.All right, so let's notsave our masterpiece.Let's say we need toedit an existing picture.I'm sure I have some pictures on here.Maybe even some screenshotsfrom when I was experimenting with the,the TV features on this computer.Because it does double asa TV which is pretty cool.And if you take a screenshotwhile you're in TV mode,you actually screenshotwhatever the TV is displaying.Which is pretty cool.And I think I have some pictures of that.They're not really labeled.And thumbnail previewsweren't really a thing so,let's just take a wild guess.Oh, problem parsing the PICT.Okay, well, that was a problem.Let's do open as.I just did an open.Let's do an open as.And choose, oh my gosh,well they're a PICT file I think.Let's try opening them up as RAW.Oh, rows and columns.Oh.All right well.It's probably gonna openup like a piece of shit.Oh yeah, that's beautiful.(laughing)It's abstract art guys.That's all it is.We could take the smudgetool and probably,oh yeah, we're actuallysmudging that pretty well.Hang on, let's crank that up a bit.You following me camera guy?Want me to full screen this?Zoom in a bit?Let's just pretend we'reediting like a star field.Like this is like a star field here.And, oh yeah, we're just.Actually that smudge is pretty fast.That's pretty decent performanceconsidering the circumstances.Actually, that's actuallykind of entertaining.Move over Kid PixStudio, this is the shit.Full screen PhotoShop there man.Yeah, I don't, I thinkwe lost some color there.Let's go to RGB color mode.See if we can get anything out of this.It's probably stillgonna be black and white.Yeah see, now you definitely see the,that dithering kick in it looks like.So if I go back to,I'm gonna go back to monochrome.I wanna see something here.Discard color information.That's really interesting.I never really paid attention to that.When we're in monochrome mode,the shades look smoother.There is significantly less dithering.All right, well let's close that.Let's, let's maybe usesomething we can actually edit.So let's do open as.I believe I have some photoson here from a Chicago trip.From the premiere.Those were the photos I wasusing the premiere demo.Yep, ghosts of cloud gate.Oh no, that's not right.So let's open it up as a PICT file.PICT file.Honestly if I couldn'thear the hard drive,like I wouldn't even know it'sdoing something right now.But I know it is.I trust it.There we go.Something's coming in.It's painting.And there we go.Look at that.And that actually redraws pretty well.While I'm scrolling around.That actually redraws pretty decently.So let's zoom out here,see what we're looking at.Could not use the smudging toolbecause it does not workwith index colored images.Well that's, that makes sense I guess,even though it doesn't.Let's switch to RGB mode.The watch spins around.Here we go.And now, let's smudge the Chicago skyline.Oh yeah.As you can see down here, we'reworking with a two megabitdocument right now,which is pretty intense.There we go, that wasour one level of undo.Let's do some, let's dosome cool adjustments.Let's see, hue and saturation.Okay this part is interestingbecause remember when I was talking aboutthe color calculation earlier?Well it turns out that when I makean adjustment here you'llsee that the whole Macintoshinterface is adjusting with it.And I guess it was justfaster to compute it that way.But if you hit preview, just the canvas,just the view port willreceive the adjustments.Not the whole Macintosh interface.You can even see the Apple menu up thereas being affected by the color adjustment,which is kind of cool actually.Let's say we make it moregreen, and then I hit preview.If we give it a moment,it will just recalculateinside the PhotoShop document.And there it goes.You can see it quickly overtaking the citywith a green toxic haze.Everybody is gonna die now.That's not good.Say we could do that.Or we can hit cancel.And let it go back.There we go.Let's zoom this out a little bit.Command, minus button.Filter, Blur, Despeckle, Find Edges,Gaussian Blur, Calculate,Blend Modes even.Look at that.Let's do, let's see how long it takesto calculate a Gaussian Blur on here.Let's do a radius of 24.That's a good sign (laughing).I'm probably gonna melt the68K inside this poor thing.Oh shit hang on.There it goes.I was trying to abort itby like doing escape or command periodbut no it actually did it.It actually applied aGaussian Blur to our photo.Let's zoom in there and enjoy the details.Look at that.Yes of course it's dithering but,you know, that's what we had back them.I think I zoomed in really far now.It's a very blurry dayin downtown Chicago.Let's undo that.And there it goes.So, you know, we don't reallyhave any like titling toolsinside of here as one might imagine.We're talking really old software.So we're gonna have todraw our title on here.Let's see what we gotgoing on with the brush.There we go.There we go, that's performance.That'll work.Let's change the color.Let's see, we're going against blue.So, maybe a bit of like an orange.An orange.For contrast sake.C L, we're making like a little postcard.I'm really like John Maddeningthe screen right now.There's supposed to be aspace there by the way.That's, that's a space (laughing).And then some squiggly.Let's do pink for the heart.And there we go.That's our little Cloud Gate postcard.Look at that.Oh.Not too shabby, right?Let's save this out sowe don't lose our work.Save it as a PhotoShop document.We did have a lot ofdifferent formats here.PixilPaint, QDV, RAW,MacPaint, CompuServe, JIF.When we wanna send thisto our friends and enemieswe can save it as a, as aPICT file or a TIF I guess.Let's just save it as a PICT file.Put that on the desktop.Greetings from Cloud Gate.That's a lot of resolution.We don't really need 20 bits,24 bits per pixel.The watch spins around and around.Time keeps on slipping,slipping, slipping,into the future.I won't pass up on a decent Steve Millerjoke opportunity ever.Here's what the PhotoShop document iconis by the way.It's a little film canisterwith a piece of film sticking out.So yeah, that's the old icon.So here's our Cloud Gate postcard.We have two megabits on disk.PhotoShop document.Oh another discovery I just madeis that you can actuallyperform certain editswhile in full screenmode, which is pretty fun.So like if I do Command-H,I can summon my hue andsaturation adjustmentswhile looking at thepicture in full screen mode,which is pretty cool.Command-M, arbitrary map.I'm guessing that's somethingkind of like curves.Let's see, I know, let's seeI think Command-L is levels.If I had to guess.Adjust levels, yep.So we can adjust some brightness and the,shadows and highlights.Ah, I'm not sure familiar with how thisparticular interface works.Oh yeah, as you can see it'sadjusting the whole interface.See, it's adjusting the wholeinterface until I hit preview.Oh man, I didn't even notice that.When you move the window aroundthe affect goes away temporarily.Probably because, probablybecause it can't redrawany motion while the effect is applied.Yeah.That's what we had to work with.Let's see if there's anyother goodies on here.Documents.Pictures.Pictures, pictures, pictures.I've no idea what some ofthese pictures even are.I'm just gonna randomly guess,because I seriously have no clue.Oh it's of a PowerBook.How fitting.Well that looks cool.Let's give it a nice black and white look.Now we could just change the,like the color mode.Or we can be daring and apply a filter.Which, no we can't actually.For some reason thefilters are blurred out.Oh, because it's index that's right.Hang on, let's set it to RGB.Let's say we wanna give it a vintage lookbut we don't wanna gofull black and white.We maybe just wanna wash it out a bit.So, let's go to hue and saturation.Bring the saturation way down.Give it some time to calculate.There it goes.And now we can be like, hmm,it's missing a little something.Maybe like a little, like a sepia.So we can say adjust,let's go to the hue and saturation again.And we'll colorize it.And we'll give it a little bit of a,maybe like a little bit of a tan look.See how that comes out.It probably will look like shit, but.We'll see.And there it goes.So now it has a bit ofa very kind of brownish,vintagy, sepia look.Beautiful, maw, that's a masterpiece.And I think that will makethe client very happy.Especially considering we're doingthis on .63 beta PhotoShop.Let's throw that on the desktop.Bon appa-tit.Well shit.The disk is full.Oops.But we'll save it with a lot less color.And there we go, mission accomplished.That worked just fine.Let's quit that.And there we have ourbeautiful masterpieces.In fact I put so much work into these,I should really putthem where they belong.There we go.Well that was a lot of fun.Thanks for joining with me.And let me know if youhave any other suggestionsfor old software you want me to try out.The Macintosh TV and the Macintosh IIciare my new Petri dishes forexperimenting with softwareon the 68K architecture.Thanks for tagging along.Catch the crazy and pass it on.(upbeat electronic music)\n"