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Digital Design and Depression

May 7th, 2009 Posted in blogging, design, paint shop pro | 2 comments »

I was catching up on my Entrecard housekeeping yesterday and the blog Oh Fer Cryin’ Out Loud dropped on me. As it appeared to be a new drop I checked out the blog and I came to this powerful poem on depression . I don’t think I have mentioned it here, but I suffer from chronic depression and myofascial pain syndrome so when I read this poem I had to blink back tears because I wish that I had someone in my corner to understand what depression looks like from my eyes in my life. Depression is a real illness, one that you just don’t “snap out of”. I really wish that people could get this. There are neurotransmitters in the brain that are damaged in a depressed person. Once those connections are gone they are gone and you can’t rebuild them which is why there are people on depression meds such as Zoloft-which is what I am on. This particular medicine regenerates serotonin levels in the brain that have been depleted in light of the damage done to the natural serotonin levels.

Yeah ok I hear the finger moving to the click off this page because this isn’t related to the purpose of the blog, but it really is because I have found solace in digital design. When I don’t feel like talking to anyone I open up my paint shop pro and I just zone out in making stuff and looking for things online to create with. I am passionate about Paint Shop Pro because it has given me a purpose in life that before I bought the program I didn’t really have. In becoming a person of authority in my niche I have created a way for myself to rise out of the ashes of my depression and give myself a meaning to my life.

Now without further adieu here is the poem.

You Have To Be His Brother To Understand

What is it like to feel anger, broken-heartedness, and love at the same time?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to watch your brother constantly hurt your mom,
And feel no remorse,
Because he hardly understands what he’s doing at the time?
what is it like to have to sit there, and remain silent,
All while you witness both people suffering?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to see someone close to you,
Having already flown as high as they can get
Or so it seems?
Professionals say he can’t go any further,
But you pray to God he can.
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to witness someone you love,
Hurt to the point of tears because he feels he can’t make it?
What is it like to feel so much pain your body, heart, and mind,
Can hardly take it because you see your own brother’s life in shambles?
What is it like to hear people call your brother stupid?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to be the privileged brother,
Yet you watch his life spiral downward,
All as teachers have given up on him,
Saying he won’t amount to anything in this world,
Because he has trouble reading?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to have many true friends,
But your brother has next to none,
So he feels alone, even though you share yours,
But he knows that, he knows they’re yours,
It kills you because it’s killing him?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to love your brother,
With such a sense of protecting him because of his delicacy,
That your friends call you wrong because, you get angered at the
Slightest thing anyone says about your brother, at the times when
People laugh at him, you want to punch people’s lights out?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to see him depressed as he’s cycling through meds,
And most psychiatrists can’t help him because
they refuse to push aside their pride,
and so you watch him suffer because of their idiotic mistakes,
and it makes you so sad to see this situation unfold before your eyes?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to have the desire to tell him he’ll be o.k.,
He’ll make it no matter what anyone tells him,
He’ll spread his wings and fly much higher than anyone ever anticipated,
He’s always loved and prayed for by many people,
Yet you can’t muster up the courage to tell him because you’re afraid he’ll reject this statement of love?
You have to be his brother to understand.

What is it like to feel anger, broken-heartedness, and love at the same time?
You have to be his brother to understand.

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Where in the World is Wildheart??

May 1st, 2009 Posted in blogging, paint shop pro | 2 comments »

I have been busy busy busy these last two weeks with trying to keep up with the 31 Days to Become a Better Blogger Challenge as well as looking for more how shall we say it teaching opportunities as well as some new learning opportunities. I am working on trying to get on a signature tag committee over at Paint Shop Pro Showdown and I am also being interviewed tomorrow for a teaching opportunity on Second Life. The long term benefits of the teaching opportunity on there is pretty darn great and I couldn’t pass it up after speaking with one of the staff members over at The Learning Experience . There is a possibility of an actual real world paycheck if you can prove you have the skills to teach in a virtual environment so I am really going to give this a major effort.

I was also contacted about doing another blog internship program and have began the process of applying and getting approved for that. Yeah I know I am on blog learning overkill, but I really want to make Wildheart’s Work’s the best that I can possibly make it and I am more than willing to try any legit opportunity out there that will help me achieve that end goal.

Also I have been working on trying to use Twitter as a job seeking tool. I have gotten a nibble or two and that is about all I can say but it is still a nibble. I also created my first Twitter background for a friend of mine.

So wish me luck as I am still working hard here at Wildheart’s Work’s to bring you the best I can be and more.

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Digital Design Sites Found and Discovered

Apr 15th, 2009 Posted in design, masks, paint shop pro, paint shop pro tubes, textures, tutorials | no comment »

I have been wanting to do this post for quite some time now. I come across so many wonderful sites that offer just amazing free design elements. Everything from free brushes, free textures, free plug ins and filters to tubes for paint shop pro is out there for the taking. Today I want to share with my readers my arsenal of sites that I have found, used and love to check in with every day or every week just to see what is new.

First off is Obsidian Dawn , this is ran by a gal named Stephanie who is mind boggling talented with Photoshop brushes. She offers free brush packs for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, GIMP, and Paint Shop Pro. There is also a Flickr group as well where users of her brush packs can share and show off what they create with her fabulous materials.

Then there is a new forum I joined last month or so called PSP Showdown . It has a small but active community full of wonderfully creative men and women. This forum offers masks challenges, tube challenges, has a safe tubes permission list for the newbie who doesn’t know what artists out there are safe to use and who isn’t. I think this is a must for every forum that is digital design related so there is less of a chance for copyright infringement. For myslelf I had to learn the hard way when I used an image for something and got a nasty email from a forum owner from the former MSN groups. That my friends was a good learning experience. PSP Showdown has already earned kudos in my book for fulfilling a personal request to have a set of masks emailed to me in a .zip folder because they weren’t saving correctly to my mask files in paint shop pro. Vivian emailed them to me post haste and by Monday evening of this week I had them and was off creating.

Torley Textures has a massive free texture pack offering. I was floored in drop jawed amazement when I saw the massive amounts of textures they were just giving away. Needless to say I was in snag mode as I immediately added these all to my texture files as well as my patterns files. They have unique abstract patterns which are vibrant and colorful as well as eye popping.

Lost and Taken has free textures as well. There are often texture packs that offer textures found in nature and the real world. I had to laugh softly when I saw there were even textures from the sides of garbage dumpsters. I like the rust textures the most tho. I think rust and grunge are just awesome. If you have ever looked at my site I mean really paid attention to the details in the sidebars and borders there is subtle hints of kind of a slight grunge effect. That is what attracted the theme that I use now to me.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Users Flickr Group has great discussions with users often contributing information on how to do things that you won’t find in the users manual when you open the box and install the software.

The Plug In Site offers free plug ins and filters. They also offer abstract and mutation packs at a reasonable price as well. I ordered them for less than a $10 bill. There are literally a thousand images with this pack. So yeah I got my money’s worth and then some. I really got these for a steal. Also Harrold Heim who runs the site offers great customer service. I had a question about how to upload this to my paint shop pro program and he was very timely getting back to me personally.

BittBox well for me is for those who are way more talented than I an armchair designer could ever hope to be. I think these folks who participate in the users group on Flickr must have some formal design training that I don’t posses yet.

I hope that you enjoyed this post and I encourage you to check these wonderful resources out. In parting I want to share with you a design I finished this week courtesy the materials I found at The Plug In Site and PSP Showdown.

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The Top 10 most asked Questions When Searching for Paint Shop Pro Information:

Apr 8th, 2009 Posted in paint shop pro, paint shop pro 9 | 5 comments »

My new friends over in the Ourteam room at Skype told me about this wonderful tool for keyword research called Wordtracker Keyword Questions. You simply put in what ever keyword or short tail keyword your wanting to use and then hit enter. It automatically populates the screen with the questions people are asking most when they are searching for information in regards to that particular keyword. So I thought I would share with you the top 10 Questions people ask when they are looking for info on Paint Shop Pro. I am pleased to say that my version 9 is in this list.In future posts I will actually attempt to answer these exact questions.

1 how to tube in paint shop pro 10
2 how to use jasc paint shop pro 5
3 how to make a postcard in paint shop pro 5
4 how to make puffy elements in paint shop pro 4
5 what is paint shop pro 8 4
6 where can i buy paint shop pro 9 3
7 how to make an animated gif paint shop pro x2 3
8 where do i find translated paint shop pro tutorials 3
9 how to use corel paint shop pro x 3
10 where to buy paint pro shop 2
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Anti Aliasing for Paint Shop Pro and What it Does?

Feb 22nd, 2009 Posted in design, paint shop pro, paint shop pro 9 | 2 comments »

Basically what anti aliasing does is it removes or smooths out the jagged edges in text and vector graphics. You see when you are trying to convert text to a digital grid it comes out looking well digitized as is shown at Photography Education and Training.In order to smooth it out you need to apply anti aliasing so that the jagged edges blend together by using varying degrees of light and dark colors at the edges of text. Here is an example I put together quickly to illustrate how anti aliasing improves an image.

Depending on what version of paint shop pro you are using you might not have all three levels. In paint shop pro 7 it only allows you to check a box to turn on this feature. I have paint shop pro version 9 and it allows for off, sharp and smooth as seen in the illustration above. I was also informed in my Flickr group Corel Paint Shop Pro that the current version 12 has this as well. So when you are creating text and using vector graphics I recommend using the smooth anti aliasing feature to make your work look as professional as possible.

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Wildhearts Works Best Of 2008- Picture Frames for Paint Shop Pro

Dec 31st, 2008 Posted in design, frames, paint shop pro | no comment »

I honestly don’t remember the specific reason I created this frame other than to make sure I still knew the technique on how to make picture frames. However, it turned out to be the best frame I have done to this date.

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On this piece I showed my friend Carol Deckert a practical use for using frames for online pictures.

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This was completed at the same time as the first frame. I was feeling particularly inspired that day to make a few quality frames.

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You are free to snag the two bare frames to add to your own frame files in Paint Shop Pro.

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Sig Tags Made for Me for Christmas Prezzie’s

Dec 21st, 2008 Posted in design, paint shop pro | no comment »

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Still Using Paint Shop Pro Version 9

Dec 11th, 2008 Posted in paint shop pro, paint shop pro 9 | no comment »

If so they are still offering updates for it. I just got a major update on December 4th. It is a mapped drive update and is 1,246 MB. I am not sure if there are other updates for the older versions but apparently Corel is still offering support to some degree for version 9. So if you want to save a few bucks go get it from Amazon.

Corel Paint Shop Pro 9 [OLD VERSION]

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New Banner for Kansans and Friends I Like It!

Aug 13th, 2007 Posted in banner, frames, gradients, kansans and friends, paint shop pro | one comment »


I put this together for my main site and message board tonight and I thought it looked really good it took me less than 15 minutes to make because I knew what look I was going for. I have been doing a site redesign and clean up over at my main weight loss portal site and I have to say for only being able to use free to use resources found via Tripod and what I have and I think it has turned out really good. I like the vertical navigation bar as opposed to the horizontal one I had up there.

I am doing a slight redesign of my message board too to match the new banner.

I am also going to be working on making some new paint shop pro frames after my son goes back to school.I encourage you do stay tuned for that I have what I hope are some fresh ideas.

I have also been going back to my favorite gradient trick site and seeing what else I can experiment with.

Have a good one.

Wildheart

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My first space scape ever attempted the tutorial helped.

Jul 1st, 2007 Posted in gradients, nansonsplace, paint shop pro, tutorial, tutorials | one comment »


This was done from how to create a background tutorial from yet again nansonsplace.com. I added the sparkles and the transparent orbs.

The reason I am doing this series- if you will -on nansonsplace in particular is because nansonsplace does an extensive amount of tutorials with gradients and I also love working with gradients because they give a design a very unique feel and look. Especially when you find the more metallic ones like gold,silver,copper, and bronze. When I finished my Web Tech U paint shop pro courses I looked for places online that focused on gradient tutorials and I came across nansonsplace and it was a great way to sink my teeth into the meat of paint shop pro and get my hands dirty and my creativity going.

See I like to do an equal amount of trying to make my own stuff and trying tutorials because if you don’t try tutorials then you can’t ever learn how they do that in the world of digital design. The tutorials give you the skill set needed to help you grow as a designer especially in the early stages of your career. Now I am not getting paid yet to do digital design but I have been doing this long enough and have seen changes in my skills drastically since I first bought paint shop pro 9 and today.

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