Comments on: Examples of Photoshop Artistic and Brush Stroke Filter Effects

By: MadDog

MadDog — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:43:58 +0000

The positive feedback loop is the important factor here, I think. I’ve seen it facilitate remarkable changes in my life, most good, some not so good. You have to learn to use it as a tool.

By: Steve Goodheart

Steve Goodheart — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:45 +0000

I bet it’s no longer than my list is! Ah, dear sweet humans! We yearn so much.

It’s hard to sort out the cause and effects in stuff like that, but ultimately, I think all changes start within. Even so, when we make an external change, we get a positive feedback loop of good going, and every good act gives rise to the next…subtly, powerfully, the good does its stuff and we are different people and the better for it. Or something like that.

By: MadDog

MadDog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:42:21 +0000

Photoshop is so much fun that it is almost too tempting for me. I’ve made the same mistake several times in my life. Taking something that I love to do for fun and trying to make a living doing it. The list would shock you.

I don’t know which came first, the chicken or the egg. I used to be a pretty violent person. You don’t want to know! This had some horribly negative effects on my relationships, as you can imagine. Then I gave up hunting. Then I gave up carrying a gun. Then I gave up guns altogether (sold them all). During this time, my life was becoming more peaceful. I don’t know which was the cause and which was the effect.

And, I don’t care.

By: Steve Goodheart

Steve Goodheart — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:40:25 +0000

I enjoyed seeing all those effects—way cool. What an amazing program Photoshop is, and I say this “from a distance,” not as a user, though I sure some some magic done at my old publishing house with Photoshop.

You are safer now without the gun; its natural falling away is a reflection of your gain, I dare say, in “light-ness.” And as you say, that’s quite a “club” you have!