UGH! My powers are leaving me!

[uncharted]

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:

[that_punk_guy]

Um, did you give up on Photoshop after five minutes?

You're just out of practice, keep trying :-)

[Vincent]

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.

[mikeymike]

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  Personally I prefer an outdated version of Corel Xara, 1.5 :-)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!"

[sumner7]

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:

[whabang]

I experienced the same problem when I fired up ProTracker a few days ago... :-(

[sumner7]

whabang wrote:
I experienced the same problem when I fired up ProTracker a few days ago... :-(

Really?  :-?

[that_punk_guy]

I lost my grip on Protracker about three weeks after I started using MED.

[whabang]

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. :-)

[sumner7]

Yes. What a shame. :-(

[cecilia]

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.

[uncharted]

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