Category: Web

Photopea: Photoshop for free?

Adobe Photoshop has set the standards for digital image processing for decades. But your entry to the world of Adobe software comes at a price. Photopea is a comparatively new web-based free photo editing tool that mimics many of the functionalities of Adobe Photoshop. But can Photopea rival the Adobe classic? Let’s dive into what Photopea offers. At first: For those of you who only need everyday editing capabilities without the cost for Photoshop, Photopea emerges as a compelling alternative. But read on before waving good bye to your Adobe account.

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WordPress local with XAMPP

My new online project is to build static websites with WordPress. Just to see if it can be a viable alternative to the light Typesetter CMS, which I’m currently using for some static websites. For that I needed a local server on my Linux Mint machine. On Linux you can choose between two alternatives: The first is called LAMPP, a locally installed server package with an Apache2 server MySQL and PHP. That demands an endless number of entrys on the command line – with uncertain results. Not my path. I chose XAMPP, a solution with graphical interface, that brings you Apache, MySQL, PHP and PHPMyadmin by just a few clicks. I found an howto at Squarenoid, which worked for me, with some minor supplements:

After Installing XAMPP I had to create a new database for my project before installing WordPress. It’s a doodle in PHPMyadmin. After installing XAMPP and WordPress, I was shutting down my computer. Restarting the machine brought a bad surprise: I couldn’t connect to my server nor my WordPress installation. Solution: I had to restart my server manually.

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