UGH! My powers are leaving me!

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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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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