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doing thank you for joining uh right so today we want to talk about tools of creativity by the way i have a lot of annoying voice effects today that i want to torture you with for example this one let's see if this works let me know clean up on our three clean up on aisle three does it work i don't know you have to tell me i tested it but i'm not sure if it's in the live stream or not uh it's all a little bit um yeah let's put uh the chat back here ah okay so we have some yeah creative stuff today all these tools oh i have to close my chat here too we also have to weekly challenge lots of cool entries this time so yeah there's a lot of cool stuff to look at there we go okay so yeah um does this work i hope it works okay cool let me close this real quick and refresh the chat room here pop out okay there we go good it worked okay that's awesome pronounce lee really it's pronounced lee okay that's interesting i didn't know that uh hi roland uh from uh sandy utah uh cave okay i don't know how to pronounce it from canada hi how you doing uh christian from frankfurt germany lol sounds so ish really does it okay interesting um chris uh greetings from germany remember no chipmunk voices i was thinking about specifically putting them in for you uh but i don't have enough uh sound on my board here right now uh sorry not enough buttons on my board uh chi trim pin is that how you pronounce that from germany hi how are you doing thanks for joining uh did i miss someone from cork rowland oliver from germany i think i already said that okay cool i think my chat that chat is really strange from from youtube i think it doesn't update sometimes i will put it over here so we can see everything okay cool so uh let's start with um the creative tools and of course one of the best creative tools is to look at art it actually art uh i want to talk a little bit about that so come on board no hot beverages no sticky drinks no the other way around ah no that's actually right no sticky food um yeah and keep your fingers off the adverts because they're expensive okay uh let's get started here does my screen switch or not oh i i don't see i don't see uh this is why it's not working because i don't see my screen from obs so now this makes a lot more sense because i don't have the delay there's this this kind of thing here again this little corner here i tried to get rid of that but it somehow didn't work i tried to move my light around but anyways okay anyways so here's one from sachi arts this is a website where you can look at different artworks you even see the price here pretty expensive um but maybe worth it like um really depends on it the good thing is on this website you can find a lot of work so if you have the category photography and its artwork is like it's fine art um and you can also get some information about the artist which is really nice maybe even about the artwork which is even better and the good starting point here is that most things start in art or in design but design is a form of art it's applied art while this is fine arts is a little bit different uh but kind of the same thing um lucky me what um i don't know what that refers to here um hi dorothy from denmark how are you doing terry from oh just joined hi how are you doing thank you very much so um first of all the thing is about art first like i said a lot of things start there like before they become public before they become famous and everybody's using them they start in these kind of areas because artists try around with a lot of things but they also have a lot of concepts in the background why they are doing things so often it makes a lot of things even to look at old art like photography that's 100 years old like 80 years old or stuff like that because there's still interesting concepts in there and you understand the origin of the concept so that's a very good tool um for art and i want to show you something um like this is quite nice here looks quite modern um here's something that is more of an old-school art thing like these are two uh german artists uh band and hilar becca and they are famous for some kind of you might think it's kind of boring uh from the photography that they are doing so you can see here the good thing about this is called the art story which is the name of the website um because of superman choice you didn't have space for uh on your sound board yes i have this i i um spent some money on a stream deck so i have some buttons and can do some things whoops okay um and also just switch the scenes a little bit better anyways uh so you have a little bit of dates about their life and about uh like what they did throughout their lives and here's a little bit of an accomplishment but also they describe the artworks and this is really nice um to get a little bit of a background about that um and here's also when you click here open influences you see other artists and this is really valuable because this will give you basically an endless uh growing route of different artists you can look at throughout the centuries right who has inspired and influenced whom and um you can get some ideas from that right so that is really really helpful to get a better understanding of art um to watch now so i look back uh for the record ah that's cool thank you damian hi thanks uh that's okay don't worry about that that is good um okay anyways uh what was about to say oh yeah so you can you can read about the concepts behind that and so pit hats this is um this is the work they are talking about here like it's a serious um i think there's more that's not just this work here um and when you look at it at the first moment is not that interesting but it becomes a lot more interesting when you have a little bit of a concept about that so let's read a little bit here um so the let's just read this passage down here uh the mode of display encouraged audiences to closely consider the form of the structure on display with repetition facilitating a greater understanding of the ways in which different examples resemble and diverge from each other in pit heads each structure has the same basic form but varies in the angle of the diagonal that leads into the mine the number of support linkings this uh diagon now uh to be based and in the nature of number of buildings grouped at the base of each pit head so what they did in their work is they compared they photographed industrial structures basically and showed how they are different and it's not just like um a tool to work it also has some kind of culture and process in its in itself and that's kind of interesting i mean look at them they all look very diff like very similar but at the same time very different and that's an interesting thing um to think about and this is that this is the basic thing where you start with your creative journey is to understand what is creativity how does it work how do people think about concepts how do they come up with concepts and this is this is a very good way um to look at them and see what is the background that the artist was thinking about um and what kind of things can become interesting or can can inspire creativity right and so here it's just an industrial structure but in the comparison of these different shots and because they are photographed all in the same way and all as you can see in the same weather situation so they only photographed in um in for uh sorry in overcast and they always left out any kind of stuff that's in front or behind that so they wanted to have just um the building as clear as possible not in kind of an exciting angle or anything um and so it gives you a much more a cleaner look and a easier cleaner way to compare these buildings right and this you can see um gives you a good insight into how we have cultural processes and designs and all kinds of of life situations and all also these elements here are kind of historical how can i say elements of our society how our society functions right and so that's interesting as a concept and from that now the thing is you think what do i do with that i you can of course you can do the same thing if you want to you can try that but you can come up from that with other ideas where you would think maybe it would be idea to photograph something like in a similar fashion you know uh like i don't know um some some other subject you know in a very sterilized sterile um similar way for example different post boxes around the world or different kind of i don't know you know what i mean you know chairs stuff like that or you can come up with completely different ideas so uh let's go to another page here and i want to start with art and then we go into tools right because these are also tools as the websites and did i not did i not save that okay let me look over here i have some links over here oh yeah here we go oh yeah so uh there's one thing you can do go to google and just enter uh best photographers and then you come up with some stuff here for example you have a list of really good photographers that you can look into and into their work the big difference between this and looking on instagram or looking on flickr or all these other pages pinterest stuff like that is um on these pages they compete in a way that is already on the market in a certain sense this is already like language and it's already often over processed like it's like super mcdonald's right it's like super coca-cola because it's just very super sweet and very intense so if you start with these sources here you get you drink right from the spring of of art inspiration right because the other ones are super diluted by all these kind of things that happen in everyday culture and they compete with each other to get the most likes and the most shares and whatever and this is not that this is just actual art right so you have a very clear vision of what is going on here and you have a lot of writing about these artists so that can be very helpful so let's for example look at steve curry here um he did this very famous photo of that girl here in the camp but you can also go to his website and you can look at his artworks here for example this stuff here and now here's an interesting thing when you look at his works um hi pavel from germany how are you doing thanks for joining uh when you look at his works you will see that a lot of them are um they have a certain topic and they collect these kind of ideas for example here is hand in hand and you can see here that we have a series of works where uh people are just holding hands you see like this holding hands in all kinds of different situations you don't have to travel around the world you can do it in your own like neighborhood and see how do different people hold hands and for which reasons and all these kind of things now this is basically similar to this it's just a different thing right so here it's about these industrial pit hats and here it's about holding hands uh but it's a serious that is comparing a cultural moment right it's comparing a cultural thing that is happening and why is it happening how is it different from happening of course this is a lot more emotional than this here uh but still it's interesting so you can come from this kind of concept of comparison to this kind of concept of also comparison of a different kind of thing right uh and so this is kind of good starting point you can see from already just looking at two different artists you have a good idea of what you could do basically you can photograph for example people looking out of windows at i don't know whatever the the traffic the playground uh any kind of reason why they look out of a window it could be an interesting work right uh stuff like that so this is a really good start for inspiration here's a helping hand for example it's very different um yeah it's a lot of different like this is also nice with the comparison here old and young stuff like that so just from looking at good artists you get a really good start on um what is art how is it actually done in a really nice way and like i said often um these things that we see later on they start here in actual like fine art applied arts and then they go out and become more um pop culture right and you see it on t-shirts and stuff like that of course not this on on t-shirts and maybe not this uh but the stuff that we then see on pinterest on instagram all these kind of famous works right okay good wow i'm talking a little bit too fast today maybe sorry about that um yeah what is this oh good art and fine art photographers what is this one second let me see here i wanted to show you something else um oh there's a list here of a fine art photograph so you can also search for that best fine art photographers here i found a list of different photographers um to look at the works um if you if you find them in i mean this is kind of nice but i'm not actually sure if this is fine art but there's some nice works in here uh i wanted to show you something else oh yeah here tate gallery so this is the famous state gallery in london of course and also here you can look through the works that they have and you will see that there is often um photography in here for example this work here kate sitting right from wolfgang tillman's right so this doesn't look like much as a photograph but again that's not so important because when you look at the concept it becomes more important right so here for example you can look at this text here and it says uh wait um this blah blah blah blah blah installation room where's the title oh yeah here uh this is a work of 36 photographs entitled uh if one thing matters everything matters and the idea is that um tillman desires uh that uh all his photographs are seen as equally significant he suggests that an image of uh a cup of coffee carries equal weight to the importance of one of more dramatic subject matter and so yeah blah blah blah questions this and that so there is um also another artistic concept behind that and um in this case it's more about the comparison between why are certain things more or less important or should we actually value them in the same way i look at them in the same way especially as artworks right does it is it a better artwork because it contains something that grabs your attention or that is more important as a subject like um kate here uh or is a cup of coffee equally interesting as an artwork right um sabina says the problem i saw is the permission for uh from the people do you think he asked before he's alone [Music] i don't know actually i have no idea if he asks the people before i mean there's different laws in different countries and also i have no idea maybe ask them afterwards if he's a professional photographer as a tourist often you don't ask if it's for private use you often don't ask i don't feel comfortable with that i tried that especially in asia i was thinking like hey i could take photos like this and then i was walking around oops okay i was walking around several days in bangkok and i didn't take any photos because i just was too shy to take photos when i didn't ask the people but i was also too shy to actually ask them so i didn't take any photos of people like some i did i took some photos when i was really far away that was kind of okay um but um i don't feel very comfortable with that it's really like under a very street photography is a very uncomfortable thing but if you do it as an art project uh like this for example of course you can ask the person beforehand if they want to be photographed right so that's okay so you can find your mode you can also photograph completely different things like i said you can photograph different post boxes you can photograph different cats for example or docs or whatever you want to photograph that is different or different houses or stuff like that for example what i've found is that um when you take a photo of your surroundings of the streets you live in and just save them at a good place where they don't get lost and you look at them like years later a lot of these places have changed and it's actually nice to compare them um on some like buildings have been teared down some streets have been rebuilt stuff like that you know i thought it could be really interesting um let's go for some tools here oh yeah let's start with this i was talking about this yesterday a little bit i think in my video it's called behance this is a really good source of inspiration and this was um this was our own company its own company um some years ago and then it was bought by adobe so right now it's adobe service but don't worry about that the thing that it is is that it is basically a yellow pages for creativity and art so creative people can upload their art here there are the works and you can search for all kinds of things here you see images prototypes people mud mood boards stuff like that projects and you can look at them for example this here um and you can also see often what they have used as tools to create that and you can see different kind of versions of that like you have this kind of sphere here of dirt hovering over the eyes and then over a street and then over this kind of sitting on that path so there's some cool works in here you can also follow the artists you can message the artists you can see what else they have done uh so that's pretty nice and this is very much focused on creativity and creatives and artists right it's different from what you find on instagram or stuff like that because instagram is just for everybody you'll find just everything i'm here it's a little bit more organized um a little bit more focused uh especially also this is kind of a portfolio where people want to be discovered for their work and maybe be hired as photographers designers 3d artists all kinds of things right as you can see a lot of interesting things here this is also by the way a good idea i do just build the things you want to photograph just like like with this you use some simple elements you put them together as a mask as a design and then photograph that doesn't always have to be things that you find in front of your camera you can also create stuff in in front of your camera and by the way i would really like to encourage you to experiment with stuff like that because this leads this is another big source of creativity is just be goofy just try around different kinds of things and see what you can do with that right um okay right i'm sorry i'm i'm talking so much today how long have we streamed okay good wow and you can see here the tools so this is using photoshop they of course often use um the adobe tools here because this is also promoted by adobe but you can see there's other photographs here from the same is it the same photography yes it is it's pretty cool works it's very interesting right this is a little bit uh further along the way so you can see that um if you compare this work um and where was the other work no this is not the thing i wanted to show right now um let's open this up here again nope sorry no no no there we go okay so if you compare this work and this work to this work here you can see there's a huge difference right that this is um and this is this is maybe a good point to differentiate them is when you look at these works here art especially fine art is not made for entertainment it's not made to make you feel good or it feels like anything it's not made it's not kind kind of comforts comfort food for the soul art is about art in the sense of philosophy being about philosophy so this is the only thing is is it interesting for arts in the art discourse this is the only thing that matters to artists while here on this case they want to impress of course they want to they want you to go oh that's interesting that's cool i want to hire this guy for my video game for my movie for my cd cover stuff like that they don't want to do stuff that is purely philosophical and purely artistic and only interesting for people who are into the art process and the art history and the arts uh discussion right uh like this workers because this is not i mean maybe you could put that on a cv cover uh today but not in the day when it was made uh when was this mate actually uh 1974. so people back then really didn't have cd covers looking like that today we have but this is the progression from art into into uh popular culture right okay so this is this is basically always the process not always most of the time right okay cool um and a good example on what the difference is and also how you have like different sources of inspiration um and a little bit of a different way to think about that is that um this is basically like a raw photo that is completely unprocessed but it's processed in the sense of art but it's unprocessed in the sense of pure artistic spirit and this is very processed in the sense of a really very processed jpeg file that you download and you can do stuff with that but it already has a lot of stuff put into it and that is kind of already in the process right it's not it's not that it's flexible anymore right um so maybe that was a very bad comparison i don't know all right uh yeah okay let's go on what else do i have here let me see let me see oh yeah there's another series i wanted to show you and then we go to the tools this is from we transfer we transfer as a service we can upload files and then other people you can send them the link they can download it but for some reason they have a really good art block and you can go there it's called wepresent.wetransfer.com and you can see here they have a lot of works in here that you can click on them and look at them what they are um for all kinds of backgrounds by the way this is another thing that i want to suggest to you uh look at all kinds of artworks and artistic backgrounds it doesn't matter if it's a painting or if it has like um a sketch or a 3d animation or sound or i don't know a performance a theater player a book stuff like that it doesn't have to be a photo to be inspiring because you can take a lot of inspiration a lot of interesting things from all kinds of sources right so don't be limited by that um and you can see here's a lot of interesting stuff in here and you can also read about that so this is a really good source also i found because they have really crazy artwork like this one here they often have a lot of stuff that is um like really eye-catching and really strange um from what the people are doing and at the same time they have a lot of text here writing about that stuff so that's also pretty cool so you learn a lot this is a really good source let me put that into the chat right now boom there you go so you can click on that link and bookmark that if you want to um yeah and as you can see here lots of stuff from all kinds of backgrounds all kinds of ideas so that's pretty cool and also go for stuff that is um boring on the outside at the first moment and then like this for example or this and read a little bit about the concept behind it that's really important because if you look at art and don't read the context don't read the idea behind the art you just don't understand what is going on and that it's kind of useless right that's looking at art without reading the description is like looking at a book in a foreign language and not understanding the language you know it's like opening up a book in chinese letters and then you're like oh that's nice it looks beautiful but you don't know what the text says so it's a static yes but it doesn't really help you don't understand what the book is about right okay good um let's go to the tools um so here is one that was suggested to me by christopher from my community and this is a really really cool tool it's called pure rf um and what is this is a mood board basically where you can just drag stuff from the internet from your browser into that board and just build up let me see i have one here pure pure ref there we go where does it open up oh it's empty okay interesting uh wait a second i have to load the last thing that i created there we go okay cool so you can see i created this board here now um i have dragged out all these from pinterest different kind of comparisons of angel pictures just as a test and you can see like let me uh rearrange these a little bit like mess them up just to drag them in here maybe also resize them a little bit just like you would when they come from the internet just have some different stuff here like that okay cool so now look at that i'm going did i say the name for wrong kristoff oh sorry kristoff christoph is the right name thank you for telling me christoph okay so what you can do here is you select all of them then you right click and you go here to image and you go to um normalize height boom and now they all have the same height and then you go here to image arrange optimal and boom they are sorted for you and you can zoom in and out because this is an endless canvas if the canvas grows by adding pictures you can see here this uh a little bit brighter gray thing that's my canvas if i put this over here you can see how the canvas is growing so um this will grow as big as you need it to be and you can then always arrange your pictures um there's probably also a shortcut to do that optimal boom you can also arrange them by name stuff like that and you can zoom in and out this is also cool even if the pictures are small you can still zoom in and they have the original resolution so no matter how small they are on your canvas they will still retain their original size so this is a really really nice tool uh for finding stuff right let's close this uh yes safe please okay cool um good so and this by the way you can have this for free you can also like donate some money to them for using that you can see windows mac and linux i don't think it's for ipad but it's better for desktop i guess anyways because i'm not sure how you would drag something a picture from the browser into that thing on the ipad maybe on split screen mode or something like that anyways uh so yeah this is a really really good tool it's called pure ref i want to post this into the boom into the chat here oh my my voice sorry for that and i'm not using my voice effect i'm sorry about that ah i have to do that more oh here we have some voice uh some samples too does that play i hope that plays by the way i have my let me let me turn this off here i have my um my fan in the background but knowing the content understand the art is a bit controverse to that would you one second let me let me pop this over so because this is a longer comment um jen says but knowing the context to understand the artwork is a bit controversial that what you told us many times your picture should tell a story otherwise it is not grabbing attention no that's a completely different thing um there is two things like uh oh how can i explain this um if you're making a composite if you're making a work that is um basically popular a popular art form right and then what you're doing is using visual language that is already established in the society right uh because let's go to pinterest real quick which is also a good tool um let's go here open up any kind of picture if i find one that is good i don't know what is this let's go here all right let's look at this first for a second okay so here this is a popular uh design this is like a thing that is not in the fine art area it's maybe in the applied art area but it's not in the applied art area this is challenging any kind of perception or visual language or stuff like that it is following the rules of visual language um very closely so people have the joy from that it's like a bag of chips it's like a mcdonald's burger it's b it's made to be enjoyed not to educate you about something right this is not a learning experience it's it's more a central joy experience so that's different um you start with a story you tell a story in the picture in your composite at least um and build it up with the known language with the known visual language to show people uh the emotion the story the expression you want to show that's different from fine art because fine art is has basically the main job of challenging our visual language and our understanding and our concept of culture of art of philosophy of politics of religion all kinds of topics through the medium of art and the importance of that is we have other sciences but they work with words and numbers but words and numbers can't cover everything right that we understand because there's a lot of things in the world that cannot be described in words or in numbers uh especially when they come to our culture to our understanding to our emotions because those are not physical laws you know we don't the the the human brain doesn't follow these kind of um laws the thinking the brain does but the thinking does not right otherwise you could calculate how people feel or or think that does not work right so that's the difference right um and and art because you don't know art because r tries to break with all of this you don't know what an artwork is about before you read about that right um so uh um to to explain it again from another way is um you can say about every picture that is actually empty there is nothing in that picture but for some pictures you have a really good understanding where they come from and what they mean because they come exactly from the time that you live in and use exactly the visual language that you are using every day and this is why you understand it and this is why when you go to another culture for example you don't really understand what is going on you look at it it's nice it's funny but you don't know what it actually is so you have to have a guide explain it to you and when you are here you don't have to explain oh this is a this is a church and this is like here you kneel to pray you don't have to explain that because people know about that but you don't know when you go to another culture or something that you don't understand you don't know what that is it's kind of the thing you're like okay what what are you doing here is that like a table for eating or like what is that for right it's different okay uh so when you produce something for your own culture you try to use these kind of visual languages i'm explaining this way too long i think it's already clear what's going on anyways uh what is the next tool uh go go on by the way uh to use questions oh there's another one thing from pablo um about art there is a sentence in germany he says kunstworth is it arthur cannon can i throw it away yeah that's true because you don't know if it's art sometimes the things that are not art are actually more interesting or like not more interesting but you know what i mean um cleaning team the modern art gallery yes there was a cleaning team and they like it happened multiple times when cleaning crews in museums threw away things or cleaned up things that are actually artworks because they didn't understand it as an artwork um and that's okay because art can become art can come very close to reality and uh because of that closeness uh to reality question thinks about reality right um so and this by the way this is also let me switch over here real quick so there we go big big screen cleanup one out of three clean up on aisle three no what was i saying um uh let me think about oh yeah there's two sayings that most people outside of art misunderstand so these two sayings are everybody's an artist and everything is art and of course this is not what it means because they they lack the second part of that meaning they only have like the first part but not the actual like purpose of that saying what it actually means is that an artist can use everything in his work and this is what everything can be art because everything can be used inside of art but it doesn't mean that everything is art on its own it still has to be made into art but everything that you find everything that's out there can be art this is what that means and this is also about the everybody can be an artist it's not that everybody is an artist per se but every everybody can become an artist through his actions through the things but he still has to be an artist at the same time so not everybody is an artist by just being born right uh this is not what that means um the banana on the wall the banana on the wall was quite interesting right it was a little bit of the uh what is that guy um the the graffiti guy banksy it was a little bit banksy style but it was still interesting right like is it art and if he's eaten it is it still art after eating it if you replace it would that be still art or has it only to be the original banana because there's artworks that kind of just break down over time or they are just like an idea or a concept right do you need your original work or not right it asks a lot of interesting questions also it critiques the art market of course um so it's it's a pretty interesting work actually and it's um catch a lot of attention at the same time which is also pretty cool um the invisible statue is my favorite i don't know the invisible statue i've never heard about that and if you do something weird in art you can be star of the trend because everybody tries it as well yeah there is like of course if you inspire a lot of people then a lot of people will follow uh that and of course be inspired by that like in all kinds of things like music and fashion and cooking and clothing and all kinds of things right um traveling also this is why we have sightseeing points because someone said hey there is a beach you need to see that and suddenly everybody needs to go to that beach and they build a lot of hotels there and suddenly it's the crappiest beach because everybody goes there right but this is how we function um by just like someone is doing something we think oh that's cool and then we try it too right um for example uh i want you to try to eat watermelon together with feta cheese with the goat cheese both together it's so good anyways let's go back here to our stuff here okay um where have we been sorry uh what do i want to show you oh yes i want to show you something one second this is a really cool app again adobe i'm sorry but i mean they do a lot of stuff because they have a lot of money right the money has to go somewhere that people are spending on that uh by the way let me switch over real quick because i have to look for that instagram blog that i have um what is it called out of i have forgotten let me see can i switch my profile here oh my god um oh yeah there we go okay i'm back good is there a screen bare back there okay cool all right i have not used my voice things because i'm i'm i'm talking so much garao created invisible statue and sold it for fifteen thousand dollars that's impressive right yeah that's pretty cool um yeah all right i have to look that up that's pretty cool anyways here we have this um uh um app it's called um it's called it's called adobe capture actually there it says adobe capture up here it's for uh the apps like iphone and it's also sorry it's also for android and what it does actually it's a vectorizing uh tool but the cool thing here is first of all you can photograph all kinds of designs and this is turning it into vectors that you can then edit further in affinity designer or in affinity photo 2 you can also create brushes from that as you can see down here a little bit in that picture you can also create or search for fonts and you can sample colors as is indicated here by these rings so you photograph something and it will create for you a color selection that you can export as swatches this is better with a with photoshop but i think i'm not sure i think it also works um that you just save it you can you can also just take a screenshot if if you cannot export it at all just take a screenshot mail it to yourself and then color pick it in affinity photo as a workaround right by the way this is what photos look like when you do it with the vectorizing software that's pretty cool this is from my own block uh that i did through the not like through i did it a little bit like a short time through the the kovitz lockdown and you can see it's really really cool you can do really cool things play around with contrast and perspective and stuff like that look at how beautiful the hairs are from my beard how this kind of structure and this is actually a vector file you could download that edit it further or make a nice print from that like do you want to do you want to have a shirt with my beard on it because we could do that this one here that looks like something else but it's actually my beard okay anyways look i mean it's cool i like it i like the aesthetic and it's really really nice look at this one it's really cool it looks so absurd but at the same time it looks like a artwork from a really good sketch artist you know uh so i really enjoy this app look at that look how cool that looks how also like i don't know i like these grittiness like look on my nose i look like it's a little bit of a zombie at the same time so it's really cool very very nice i really like that app you can have a ton of fun with that here is my kitchen reflected in a spoon in my eye next to it so you can do from this and this is also what i like about that with the abstraction that it's doing while it is trying to vectorize the photo um you can find a lot of very interesting structures to play with and to do some other creative things with that so that is a really really good tool and it's completely free at the same time it's called adobe capture you don't need to have i think maybe you need to have an adobe account but that's for free um and the app is for free too anyways uh what were you talking about um uh it looks cool didn't you this app yet yeah that's a pretty cool app so use that really really good for inspiration i do i should take more photos and post it to that page because i really enjoy that look at all these cool works here this is this is really nice right i really like that sorry that i'm like self patting my own shoulders but yeah sometimes you do great art okay anyways um what else are we gonna talk about oh yeah um you can you can find a lot of filters online this might also be a great tool of inspiration one of course that i have presented in a video on my channel is called gimmick or gimmick i think it's called gimmick the the founders the starters the creators of gimmick have actually been in my live stream several times uh so they are really nice and it's it's free it only works on um it only works on on windows yeah so yeah you can you can check out this video that i made about that one second there we go bloop and you can use it in affinity photo on windows to create all kinds of where did i put that um no oh there we go you can do all kinds of really crazy really cool effects um as you can see here like let's click on something you can't click on that stuff really um resources community i thought there was a gallery or something sorry for that there's the contributors um why can't you click on these pictures that's strange resources technical reference image gallery sorry there we go image gallery there we go okay uh let me see is there something cool here that i can show you um i don't see it right now there's a cartoon effect you can see before and after from the pictures what it's doing so you can do some interesting stuff with that it has a really cool painting oh this one a lot of people love this effect here so it can do that that's pretty cool it also can do pixel sorting what uh people have asked me um repeatedly that i show so i should do a tutorial on that with gimmick or gimmick uh but it's uh it's just for windows so that's maybe the downside this is the cartoon effect here so i can do some really really cool stuff with that uh yeah oh there's there's more here one second deformation filtering pattern 3d mesh stylization oh look at that look at that here this is the original picture and then you have this kind of fungal style here and then this is creating that picture from that pretty cool right here's a kandinsky style really nice right and this is a this is a free filter that you can use very nice here's another one where with the style from brock i think very very cool so yeah you can do a lot of different art styles you can also do drawings okay cool um oh yeah i have already linked the video so these are some really nice tools to look at by the way next time in my live stream we're going to do a composite again or we do like photo editing not a composite specifically but photo editing in a composite style but more in the you will see you will see it's going to be really cool uh is there something else i wanted to show you oh yes um there's another thing that christoph has suggested to me and that is this thing here that you can find on steam steam is a gaming platform but this is a software um that you can find on there uh for creativity because they also have some software tools and what you can do with that as you can see here let's let's go back here a little bit um so they they have diva developed a very easy tool for 3d um like basic a basic setup for 3d art and this is something you can use to try out ideas in a quick way before you for example do a photo project or before you do a composite or stuff like that so you can see there is a 3d book here and then you have these brushes and the brushes simply grow different trees and you can have grass on there as you can see it's super quick to do that you can experiment also with the daytime you can put houses on there stuff like that and even animals that run around which is really cool that they are actually moving so this is not just a stationary thing it's actually moving uh it's actually like a little a live scene which is also cool you have you can build actual alive microworlds uh with sunset and sunrise and stuff like that you see here's another landscape that you can do and like i said this is this is good in two ways uh the first way is that you can build a scene that you afterwards want to create as a composite or as a photographic artwork in uh affinity photo but what you can also do here is for example to build up a scenery that you plan to photograph and then play around with the camera which is also good if you play video games for example all these open world games where you have a lot of landscapes and situations they often have a photo mode where you can try out a lot of perspectives and settings and all kinds of things to train your skill better on photographing things right and the good thing is in a lot of these like in this app here but also in video games often in the photo mode you can set the weather you can set the day uh the hour of the day stuff like that so you can try out a ton of um situations before you actually go to a place and take a photo so this is actually good to train your eye and train the skill of getting things in the right composition in your picture right so that can be really cool dreams on ps4 is also good i've never tried that but this is also really cool dreams is it already out is it is it already out and is it good let's let's have a look here dreams for ps4 in that game you can do even more because you can also build your own characters and stuff like that um this is the game here that we are talking about um [Music] so you can see you can you can even build your own games your own worlds all kinds of things there is all kinds of materials in there also and um you can also like you can do a ton of things in here yeah just to just do um you can see all kinds of crazy stuff uh and that that can also be good if you have a playstation you might want to try that out this is a really good way especially if you're not good with software like blender and stuff like that this is a good way to just sketch out ideas um before you actually create them in affinity photo or another program i do have a quick access i think here you need to invest a lot more time because it's more complex than the thing that i showed you before the flowscape software but it's also a good tool and like i said you can you can do a video game you can do an experience uh that is actually happening and share it with people right so that can be really nice see how uh different it also is from the artistic style uh which is also interesting because not everything you do in infinity photo is a photo right you can do all kinds of designs and styles i see here stylized stuff so really really nice okay cool ah wow uh by the way i wanted to ask you is there um do you have um anything you want to suggest that i look at uh like dreams that uh was suggested by the chat is there whoops where are we now uh is there anything else you want to suggest that we look at uh please let me know we can look at that and if not we can go over to the review of our weekly challenge by the way also let me know please do you enjoy these kind of streams or do you rather want to see me work on works uh in affinity photo in different kind of software nick collection stuff like that um rather than having this stream because this is the second stream where i'm mainly talking about stuff i'm not sure that if that is something that's interesting to you so let me know and at the same time i'm going to have a little sip here there we go i wanted to do more with the voices i didn't do that by the way i have a loft record too does it work i think it does so you can have some fun too okay cool um the ai stuff art breeder i showed art pretty the last time but i can show it really quick right now art breeder is really really cool um and what you can do here is you can create these kind of things just by clicking and combining them this is one of the easiest and most most approachable ways to actually create different kind of designs and stuff like that for example you can use this here um okay i have to log in one second let me switch over here to the big view so i can log in real quick there we go okay and i'm back there we go so let's take this landscape here for example and then you can cross cross breed i really think they should change that because it sounds a little bit messy clean up on aisle three clean up on aisle three so um but you can do that so uh what was it talking about oh yes uh you can you can for example click here and then you can trans no that was that was wrong sorry that was the wrong one let's go back here and then you can click on crossbreed select image and it will it should no random yeah it should suggest to you other scenes like this and then you can combine them so i can for example click here and then i get a combination of both and you have these two sliders here content and style to see what kind of results you want to have so this is the new picture that we have created from the old picture you can see it's different than both and it's a new scene and you can download this and use this as a starting point where you do for example photo bashing stuff like that let's use more of the content from the left picture but keep the style and there we go so now we have a little bit more of that structure here and stuff and you can see here like if i zoom into that with a little bit of imagination you can come up with all kinds of different ideas so this thing here on the left side it could be a lot of things like it could be um it could be a lan a a really big land rover like different stories high with people in it it could be a big house standing there it could be a fallen robot or a fallen giant that's lying there on the ground uh different kinds of things right so you can come come up with all kinds of ideas of what is actually happening here in these kind of pictures and you can still of course mix them with other things if you want to so um you can sorry this was i did it wrong again but anyways you know what i mean let's for example click on this one here combine these two and you can come up with really cool things i showed this in another stream already so i'm not talking about this for too long uh wow this is very different let's go here with the content more of the left side and it's fairly quick too so you can see now we have this but with the style of that picture with the color style here and also the buildings here in the background they look a little bit more organic as you can see here they look a little bit more like actual stone with some vegetation on it and this could be a city here so really really cool and you can save that of course um you click here and save and then it's in your collection of the things you have done right i would compare pro uh compo