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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: uncharted on February 24, 2004, 12:41:27 PM
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This is really worrying...
I am a real PPaint fanatic. I love that program. I could make it do anything I wanted (within reason). I only ever used to be truely happy when pushing pixels around in it.
I've been forced to use Photoshop for the majority of stuff for about a year now (reasons beyond my control) and I've not used PPaint as much as I'd like to. Finally today I was about to start some low res, low colour stuff. "Great!" I thought, so I fired up PPaint...
But after sitting in front of a blank screen for 5 mins I found myself unable to start, or think of how I was going to do what I wanted with PPaint's tools, I could only think in terms of PhotoShop!!!
This is not good at all :nervous:
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Um, did you give up on Photoshop after five minutes?
You're just out of practice, keep trying :-)
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You must wash your sins clean and re-convert to PPaint.
It could take some counselling, and a lot of time, but you'll be back to your old self in time :-)
The people of the Amiga.org monastery could help with the recovery problems as you arrive at them.
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I've always found Photoshop to be extremely hard work for even the most minimal (IMO) of tasks. Personally I prefer an outdated version of Corel Xara, 1.5 :-)
I'm not particularly a "graphics person". I spent many hours playing with the symmetry feature on Deluxe Paint :-)
in reference to the thread name: "Your powers are" "your powers are weak old man!"
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uncharted wrote:
This is really worrying...
I am a real PPaint fanatic. I love that program. I could make it do anything I wanted (within reason). I only ever used to be truely happy when pushing pixels around in it.
I've been forced to use Photoshop for the majority of stuff for about a year now (reasons beyond my control) and I've not used PPaint as much as I'd like to. Finally today I was about to start some low res, low colour stuff. "Great!" I thought, so I fired up PPaint...
But after sitting in front of a blank screen for 5 mins I found myself unable to start, or think of how I was going to do what I wanted with PPaint's tools, I could only think in terms of PhotoShop!!!
This is not good at all :nervous:
What a shame :cry:
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I experienced the same problem when I fired up ProTracker a few days ago... :-(
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whabang wrote:
I experienced the same problem when I fired up ProTracker a few days ago... :-(
Really? :-?
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I lost my grip on Protracker about three weeks after I started using MED.
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sumner7 wrote:
whabang wrote:
I experienced the same problem when I fired up ProTracker a few days ago... :-(
Really? :-?
Yep! I could berely use it... Back to ModPlug tracker, I guess. :-)
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Yes. What a shame. :-(
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what an odd reaction! I've used a bunch of image processing programs and i don't generally forget how to use them when i have to learn a new one.
just practise. it's like riding a bike, you'll remember.
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It's not that I forgot how to operate the program (heck I can remember how to use IconGraphix on the spectrum), but rather the creative process I had has gone. These programs have different toolsets and make you build up a picture in different ways.
I've just gotten so used to the Photoshop way (with layers, transparencies and 24bit) that I just can't think how to build a picture in terms of brushes, palettes, and 256 colours.
but you guys are right, it should be a matter of practice, after all it took years to get where I was with PPaint before. I just hope it doesn't take years to remember. :-o