What To Do When You Run Out Of Creative Juices..

[leiaah 0]

Isn't it annoying when occasionally you find yourself staring at a blank adobe photoshop document and nothing that remotely resembles an inspiration comes to your head? It's as if your creative mind has gone on a hiatus and you are left with a brain that's gone dry.What do you do? Drink coffee? Rest awhile? Jog around your block?

[canute24 0]

Wow it's nice to know someone else also feels the same way as I do. I sometimes want to do something very nice, something like no one has ever done and I just keep sitting doing nothing.

[darkmeca 0]

Sitting there doing nothing is something new i guess... unless you do it everyday... well personally i dont have moments of creativity, i feel creative when i have an idea, i dont usually sit and wait for it to come. For me when the creativity hits then i start something but i dont look for it.

[ashiezai 0]

lol .. sitting there when you ran out of ideas is useless .. i would go for a bath or take a nap or do something i like .. like going out may be by this u will get some new ideas .. actually creativity wont come by itself ... creativity depends on how used you get to the photoshop and looking at other's work ..

[millertime 0]

i'm not really a photoshop person... i'm more of a fireworks type of guy. i like to just create random shapes and add different effects to them until its something i like. and then usually an idea will pop in my head of something to create out of it and then i go for it and vwala... i have a masterpeice

[brandice 0]

Usually I get back into that creative mood and get ideas after I've looked at other people's work (good or bad) and read tutorials. If I take my mind off of what I need to do I will get distracted with other things and never come back!

[Good Grief Graphics 0]

It's hard to ocme up with somethign good when you have no creativity. I usually grab my good ol' masters of photoshop 2 book or a cmyk magazine and look through it for a while.

[SuburbanalCuts 0]

Isn't it annoying when occasionally you find yourself staring at a blank adobe photoshop document and nothing that remotely resembles an inspiration comes to your head?  It's as if your creative mind has gone on a hiatus and you are left with a brain that's gone dry.

 

What do you do?  Drink coffee?  Rest awhile?  Jog around your block?

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What you do is you go outside an' look at nature for a while, then you're inspired.

 

meditation helps calm you down if you're frustrated, even though meditation isn't supposed to be used selfishly.

 

 

also, reading a good book inspires me a lot.

[grrlfromoz 0]

This happens to me a LOT, when I stare at a blank screen and go, "Okay, brain, come up with something cool." And then nothing happens. The reverse is just as frustrating when I have an awesome idea to try out, and plan out exactly how I want to do it, when I'm nowhere near a computer. I find that if you do just the opposite, the creativity will flow again. Like if I want to work on a graphic and nothing is coming, then I work on text. If I need to do something textual, I stare at a picture until the words form. It's sort of like running the program somewhere in the background windows of your mind. If I don't think about it but just let it run, eventually it'll pop back up with some new idea my subconscious has figured out.That, or sleep helps.

[whyme 0]

Whenever I lose my creative jiuces, i always go to a good photoshop tutorial site. a few to mention:good-tutorials.comtutorialoutpost.comthe tutorials there spark up some ideas for me, and it always give me a wonder new idea, if im still stcuk, i'll usually try out a tutorial there.

[JaVe 0]

Oh god i had that exact same feeling, i don't know what to create anymore, i've created about everything. There's only so much a program like adobe can do - so i got bored of it and the simpleness and i moved on to 3ds as some of you may know. I am happily creating 3d images which impress me and the overall effect is nicer. Of course i can incroporate some of the images in adobe. Adobe was once no. 1 but now is no. 2.