Hey folks, long time no see.
To cut a long story short, now that Pillowfort is tentatively scheduled to exit the beta and open to the public at the end of this year/early next year and a few of the active blog admins have been trying it out, we’ve decided to start building a Pillowfort community for Art and Sterf.
Given the lack of functional search and tagging systems on tumblr, and the issues we’ve reported to tumblr over four years ago that still haven’t been fixed, we’ve decided to cut our losses and move to a better platform.
Communities on Pillowfort not only let us reblog references and tutorials like we’ve always done, but they come with the added bonus of forums, which enables people to get advice and support from fellow artists in a way that tumblr doesn’t really allow for.
However, rebuilding a catalog of 25,000-something posts is not going to be easy, so we need your help!
We will be going through the blog and asking each artist we’ve reblogged content from if they would like to have their content hosted (with full credit and links to the source of course) on Pillowfort, if they would like to join and host it themselves, or if they do not want their work hosted at all, but given there’s roughly 25,000 posts on this blog we figured we’d ask everyone as a whole first to see if anyone’s willing to help make the task a little easier.
If you have tutorials or resources you would like to share, or would like us to share, please let us know by providing a link to the post on Pillowfort so that we can reblog it from you, or by providing a link to your post on tumblr and we can add it as an embedded link on Pillowfort that links back to you - Whatever you’re most comfortable with!
We’re hoping to start building up the catalog of references and tutorials in the community now so that when Pillowfort is opened to the public there’s already a decent selection of resources available to artists that join the site.
People who already have Pillowfort accounts can now generate invite links to let you sign up for free, though to avoid overwhelming the site each user is limited to generating three invite links a week. A few of the mods have accounts and would be happy to start handing out invite links - as far as we know, once you have an account you can also start handing out links to your friends, so you only need one link.
That’s totally fine! There’s no pressure to join. We will still be maintaining this blog to ensure that nobody loses access to the resources hosted on this blog, we just most likely won’t be updating it with new content anymore. If you still want to be a part of the Art and Sterf community, we do have a discord server that you can join as well. Just send us an ask and we’ll give you an invite (We need to limit how many people join at once to avoid overloading our server too!)
To those of you that have been following this blog since its humble beginnings, and to those of you that only joined a little while ago, we thank you for all the support you’ve shown us. We hope that you will come join us on Pillowfort!
- Admin Pasta
https://www.photosugar.com/remove
In case you missed it, this website is mirroring all the content from Tumblr, which means that all your images and gifs you’ve ever posted on Tumblr are up there without your consent. The developer of the website has provided this link to personally remove your blogs from photosugar.
This is ALL blogs. All of them.
Follow the instructions to get your content off of there.
There are some solutions and workarounds for turning off Windows Ink, which seems to be the root of the problem of making people’s pens go crazy. It will make your tablet actually start working decently again with your normal commands/gestures, but due to some kind of bug or whatever, turning off Windows Ink also disables pen pressure. So how do fix for a workaround?
The first is the Photoshop Fix that was found by @mandyjacek (click for the thread!) where you have to go into Photoshop’s files and add in a txt file you can write very simply yourself that forces Photoshop to use the TabletPC API instead of the WinTab API. After a restart, it began working for me again more or less like it should.
The Second is in SAI:
i was almost as if the developer knew there were gonna be some bullshittin’ down the road and gave us an option.
I haven’t seen a fix for CLIP STUDIO or other art programs yet, but this is at least a start until Windows and Wacom get get back to seeing one another eye-to-eye again.
These have at least worked for me, and I hope for you all as well.
not sure if this has been found already but i found something that worked for for me with CLIP STUDIO.
first turn OFF windows ink!
Then open CLIP STUDIO and go into PREFERENCES
Finally go onto the Tablet option. from there change it from TabletPC to Wintab!
hopefully this will work for you if you use clipstudio!
Reblogging for the Clip Fix!
Gotta try that PS and Sai one!
I will say the most recent update did not affect my system since I run off of Windows 7, BUT this is helpful for anyone who is having issues
Just a quick update! The original Photoshop fix link is no longer working but this adobe forum thread covers the fix as well.
- Admin Pasta
@ all my followers who are currently under 16 and live in the EU or EEA (European economic area):
Tumblr will probably delete your blog or terminate it on 25th May 2018. They’re updating to terms and conditions and New European Privacy and the new minimum age to use tumblr will be 16.
You can use: https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003018754-Your-Age-on-Tumblr to back up stuff if you need
