Ctrl+N

The last few days have seen me working almost exclusively in photoshop. I've been brushing up on my colour-correction technique and have been using a new method on all the images I've been scanning and preparing for print. But as anyone who has used a computer for too long will tell you, strange things can start to happen when your brain starts to think like an application. You know how it is, you've been playing a new game solid for three days, so then when you go to the kitchen for breakfast, you put the kettle on then your brain tells you to save what you just did in case you get killed when you open the fridge. Even after using a word processor for a long time, then doing something manually like writing on paper with a pen (an antiquated notion, yes but people still do it from time to time apparently), your brain tends to think Ctrl+Z whenever you make an error. For me, I'll often see people who have blemishes on their skin, or food stains on their clothes and I think "Yeah, healing brush can fix that". And now, since improving my colour-correction skills, I had a dream a couple of nights ago that I was just wandering around the house colour-correcting ordinary household objects. "Mmmm, that sofa has a bit of a yellow cast on it," or "that tungsten light is making the kitchen cupboards look a bit pink". The dream got just too weird when my daughter walked up to me, holding out a decidedly orange toy, saying "Daddy, my bunny has lost its blue channel".