PHOTOSHOP BASIC INSTINCTS
DIGGING deeper, baby.
10/30/2003
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Introduction

So after 372 days (that is more than a year), i have finally decided to scribble the second part of the Photoshop Basic Instincts feature. Done while i was cooling off one afternoon after a heated discussion about bats. You see... there are still humans in this world who believe that bats are spies of another dimension disguised as reptiles. It's not even a reptile to begin with.

So after an hour and a half trying to enlighten this individual and failing and at the same time wasting my time, i have decided to scribble part two of that PBI feature. I'm in the office and i'm supposed to be doing some database programs but who could code

when there's no airconditioning here right now and a solar storm is occuring.

The first part of this scribble can still be read here. That is if you haven't read it yet or you want to review things and evaluate how much have improved in you

since that article was released a year ago.

Once again these 'instincts' are not rules, but insights on how to make your photoshop tasks easier and efficient. We have so much inefficient humans and processes dwelling in this world already so try every means possible for you not to be included in that stat. If you will ask me, Earth would be a better place, if these entities are tossed out by BLITZKRIEG 720 cannons into the air into the SOLAR STORM. Maybe in that way, they'll realize that TV and Ragnarok is not everything in this world. In the same process they'll figure out why it is even considered as the 'real thing'.

Back to the real topic once again, these are not rules. These will not even make your digital creations better, sexier and 'leet'. But these can make things easier for you as a user which i think is far more important. There are a lot of tools for lazy photoshop users that will help improve their so called 'art'. Yet, seldom can you see tools that improve a lazy individual. There are 95 million tools and processes to improve a PSD file but 95% of you can

[Zkiltberv. This is the sixth paragraph already and i haven't touched even the outside core why this scribble has been written.]

Unlike the first part though which tackles mainly on Photoshop processes, this second part will go beyond photoshop, delve into processes of creating wallpapers and the proper food intake while creating those .PSD files. Take note, i used 'wallpapers' not 'art'. In a lot of ways they are different, like Saddam and Bush, but they can always be used interchangeably (like Saddam and Bush also). Take this sentence for an example: 'Saddam supports terrorism.'

No offense to president Bush. I do find him... uhm i can't the word, but it is a 'good adjective' this time. When he visited our country earlier this month and was raising a baby, that little grandchild of the president of our country, it was a nice picture. I wonder how president Bush would look like if he'll do the same act of kindess to Iraqi

Darn i'm strolling away once again. But this is normal you know when a solar storm is occuring especially if it is the 'real thing' version of a solar storm.

'Art' and 'wallpapers' used and exchanged... yes that was where i left off. But like anything else in this lair, things can also be applicable to other aspects of human life. As that famous CIA quote would say... 'Nothing is what it seems.' Who knows pixelcatalyst.lair maybe is something else disguised as an digital art/wall related site.

AND now to the 'REAL THING'.

Have a VISION

Indeed... have a vision. If you're just experimenting with photoshop it is fine if you do one random stuff over another. But if you're always unsure what you want to do, that is a different story already. It is fine if you don't know what to do with your life, how to handle your nagging girlfriend, how to pay your debts, but is never fine if you're photoshop window is opened and you don't know what to do next.

Have a picture of the final output in your mind. Take a virtual snapshot of what have inspired you and what you want to do. If possible write them.

Photoshop is a tool to re-create (or express if that's what you feel) what is in your mind. You cannot re-create something in photoshop if there's nothing there in your mind to start with. Photoshop is a slave of your mind... and not the other way around.

In the future there might be mind capturing devices (hopefully hollywood movies would not give them stupid names this time) that will make things easier for lazy-porn-dependent persons like you, but do wait for another hundred years before they can make those devices risk-free.

Come to think of it, how many years did it take for humans to ban smoking?

Have a MEANING

Be it symbolic or hidden... direct or indirect... let your artwork possess a meaning in it. At least even one for yourself. Of course the viewer can have a thousand interpretations but that's what art is. A wallpaper punched into one's desktop must have a meaning for it to be there. The title is not exempt from this 'instinct'. Artworks or wallpapers that possess meaning lasts longer,

World domination 2007... WHY NOT?

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