I think this journal is something different it's not about art ,but it's about you .
I found articles talking about how to become a genius and impoving your skills to better.
now i'll write what i found suspenseful at this article "Theory On How To Become A Genius" .I hope you like it

Introduction

This is an essay with a very optimistic title - the most optimistic title I have ever written to date.

The dictionary defines “genius” as: “Someone who has an unusually high level of intelligence, mental skill or artistic ability.”


The first thing to learn is that a person CAN become more intelligent, and I am sure even possible to become a genius, all by himself. And it is definitely not necessary to meditate 10 years on the top of a mountain in china to achieve it.

In an issue entitled “Genius” from L. Ron Hubbard he is quoting Dr. Alfred Barrios who declared the following: “Most people have the mistaken idea that geniuses are born, not made.”

To understand how to become more smart it is first necessary to understand how a person is thinking. L. Ron Hubbard made discoveries in 1956 regarding this and I will give here a summary.

A person is thinking with DATA. The data a person has is ALIGNED. It is aligned on STABLE DATA. The stable data a person has may be correct or not be correct.

Types of data

All data is not the same. I made the following illustration to show data’s relative importance.

Field 1: Vital data. Data in the field of true philosophy. Covers such things as understanding of life and how it operates, reason for existence, Metaphysics, etc. In short - the greatest truths.

Field 2: Valuable data. Data concerning how to do things and which helps you in your life. Data which help you understand things and how it works.

Field 3: Useless data. Data that does not help you and has no value. Most data from TV, newspapers, school education and talking between people unfortunately falls under this field.

Field 4: Destructive data. False data, data which makes you unhappy, data intended to bring about destruction. Unfortunately more than you believe.

For a person to become more smart he has to recognize which data are of value for him. What is valuable for him also depends on what his purpose is but the above description still holds firm. He has to develop a skill to see which data are important for him in the ocean of data that he is operating in.

A lot of data are made in the form of entertainment which I want to make a comment on. Entertainment is a big modern industry. TV, movies, books, radio etc. etc.

I believe that if a person would have a strong purpose in his life and plays the game of life to reach his purpose he will not care so much about entertainment.

So for me it shows that generally in the western hemisphere in which the entertainment business is big, people are lacking purpose

Some Vital data:

(Based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. For full explanation and descriptions I refer you to the books, lectures and courses from Mr. Hubbard.)

1-What is true is that you have observed yourself.
2-Man is not an animal. Man is a spiritual entity capable of far far more than has ever been considered.
3-The spiritual entity is not part of the physical universe but the creator of it.
4-The spiritual entity is operating around three operations: Generation of truth, considering and perceiving.
5-The current physical universe is the product of agreement between spiritual entities.
6-The common denominator between all spiritual entities is the playing of a game and the anatomy of game consist of freedom, barrier and purpose.
7-The spiritual entity cannot die but is operating on different awareness levels and different tones.
8-The spiritual entity has to downgrade itself in order to play a game.
9-When a spiritual entity has lack of games he accepts and plays games on lower levels.
10-There is no God but the spiritual entity of man could be considered to be a God when reached its potential capabilities.
11-The spiritual entities are animating life in an organism in the physical universe to play a game.
12-The current spiritual entities of man has been downgraded to an almost nonexistent level throughout its history.
13-Survival is the basic principle of existence concerning organisms.
14-Man is basically good.
15-Man is creating his future.
16-Man is creating his own feelings.
17-Communication is the most vital factor of life which when used establishes reality and affinity which leads to understanding.
18-Acceptance of responsibility increases cause level.
19-Destructive acts decreases cause level and puts the person effect.
20-The most vital factor of man is his reason.
21-The mind of organisms contains a section created for security for the organism, which operates on stimuli response and takes control of the organism ones the organism is in danger. As man has grown to a level higher than animals the computations by the security section of the mind are not rational anymore and is the sole cause for psychosomatic illnesses and irrational behavior. This is handled by Dianetics therapy.
22-A minor percentage of man are destructive to their personality and are pushing man down and makes them effect.
23-A person is as valuable as he is helping others and supports life across all its sections.
24-The primary barrier in studying is the misunderstood word.
25-The planet is going down rapidly.
26-The planet can be saved with the science of Dianetics and the practical philosophy of Scientology

This is steps -Try it - :
How to become a genius:

(A theory as it was worked out by Jim Westergren)

1-Consider yourself being a genius and act like one in every moment of your life and you will very soon feel that you are one.
2-Work out your time in such a way that every hour is properly utilized and put aside as much time as possible on becoming better.
3-Established a good skill on recognizing which data are valuable and vital.
4-Learn something new and valuable each day.
In anything you read or observe make sure you understand it. Clear up the words you don’t understand and ask or look up to understand observations which were not understood. Never pass by something you don’t understand.
5-Carefully choose a profession in which you earn your money for living and at the same time enables you to enhance your skill and abilities.
6-Read a lot and carefully select which literature to read in which to gain the most valuable and vital data.
7-Evaluate, look and make conclusions on anything you read and observe.
8-Expect much more of yourself than what is expected from others.
9-Help people around you to the best of your ability and establish friends who can support you if needed.
10-Be very self-confident and certain but on the same time be open to listen, look and reevaluate to make new conclusions.
11-Know that no matter how good or skilled you are you can always become better and never cease to become more skillful in anything you do.
12-The true genius knows that it is not enough for himself having reached sky high levels - he has to take the rest of mankind with him up and has dedicated his life in making it happen.

By having read this essay you are already on your way to become a genius
Good luck
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so if you're a beginner and you want to learn PS tricks i think this websites will be suitable (i hope that )
"The best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the web"
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"Best Photoshop Tutorials" [link]
This is my Favourite one
"Best Tutorials Around the world "
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"Any good photography is a successful synthesis of technique and art." - Andreas Feininger

This article will attempt to help you come to a clearer understanding of the photography schools and colleges available, what they can offer you in terms of photo and arts education, and guide you towards investigating more about specific schools and where you can find out more information.

Photography Schools
Photography is a wonderful choice when it comes to a career. Photography is a versatile path that allows you to specify within the degree, and move from different types of photography within your lifetime. From magazine covers to exotic locations to local newspapers, a career in photography will allow you to pick and choose exactly what you want to photograph. However, a career in photography doesn\'t happen with well wishes and hopes...you have to work to get there! So where do you begin in your search for photography schools? Right here!

You'll have to learn about the photography business, learn how to deal with copyright issues and information, manage your photo porfolio and how to work with others in the field. There are many courses in the field of photography taught at many of the schools, teaching you in a variety of areas including:

Photographic equipment
Photographic processes
Photograph techniques
Color theory
Special skills
Digital imaging and photo processing

There are many many more fields available when it comes to your career path in photography, the above were simply some examples.

If you're passionate about photography and want to pursue this versatile career, it's important that you take the time to learn from experienced professionals that can guide you in your efforts to pursue professional photography, motion picture and video photography, visual journalism, and thinks like visual communications. What's great about attending photography schools nationwide is that you don't have to begin an expert, you begin a beginner! Many of you are pursuing this field because you have a natural eye for photography, and that's great - but maybe you're just developing one. That's great too! What you probably didn't know is that photography school will teach you much more than simply how to snap a few brief pictures and dip em in developer. They teach you the scientific processes of film, chemistry, optics, color theory, lighting rations, and digital and computer skills.

You'll also find collegues and students at your school that share your passion, talents, and skill and want to join in mutual efforts to further your careers. Here are a few photography school frequently asked questions that might help you!

What is the objective of many photography schools?
What types of photography might I choose to go into?
What type of school should I look for?
What are some of the top schools in the US?

What is the objective of many photography schools?
The objective (or the objective I believe is crucial to selecting a school) of many is to develop photographers that are technically and professionally sound, enabling them to pursue any photographic field and compete in the job marketplace.

What types of photography might I choose to go into?
There are many different types of photography fields, including fasion photography, digital photography, advertising photography, editorial photography, documentary style, wedding photography, portrait photography, or photo technician style work. You\'ll be prepared to do any of these with a solid education at a photo college or school.

What type of school should I look for?
My recommendation is a school that teaches nothing but photography! Obviously affordability is important, but a photo only institute is a great way to go!

What are some of the top schools in the US?
There are several wonderful photography schools, but some of ones we'll choose to highlight are Brooks Institute of Photography and the Art Institute of Colorado. For a more detailed list of Photography schools and information, please click here or continue browsing this article.

Brooks is a world leader when it comes to visual arts and photographic education. You'll want to find a photography school that helps to meet career oriented needs that you establish before you search. You'll want one with experience in the field for a long period of time, not just a hokey internet college.

You want want that can offer you a chance to broaden your resume through internships and opportunities. The joy of this career is that you get to turn your photographic ambition into something that pays the bills and you love to do every single day! Who wouldn't want that! I hope this article has proved even a little helpful, and that you'll consider going into the wonderful field of photography!

Linda Nochlin on why Picasso couldn’t have been born a girl :
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Back in January 1971, in the first flush of the feminist revolution,-“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”- was the cover story, written by Linda Nochlin, a professor of art history at Vassar College who had become interested in feminist studies in the fall of 1969 (after returning from a Fulbright fellowship in Italy) and had changed the subject of her Vassar seminar to women in art. And the rest, as they say, is history. Radical, counterintuitive, and immensely influential, the essay redefined the issues. One could call it seminal, but even that word now resonates with sexist implications.

Nochlin’s premise, like most great ideas, was so simple, so logical, and so obvious that readers could only wonder why no one had ever noticed any of these things before. Yet in its utter simplicity was a wealth of complexity, based on wide-ranging research. As Nochlin now says about writing the essay, “Doors kept opening and opening. It was an internal dialogue.” Unlike the first-generation feminist artists, who tended to take things personally, Nochlin adopted a historical view, exploring the myths behind the assumption of what she called “the white-male-position-accepted-as-natural.” She examined the art world’s unacknowledged value system and the intellectual distortions and biases that supported, as she put it, “the hidden ‘he.’” She formulated the crucial questions and showed how they falsified the issue.

Nochlin dismissed the notion of a different kind of greatness for women’s art, as well as a different choice of subject matter: “The question ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ is simply the top tenth of an iceberg of misinterpretation and misconception; beneath lies a vast dark bulk of shaky idées reçues about the nature of art and its situational concomitants, about the nature of human abilities in general and of human excellence in particular, and the role that the social order plays in all of this.”

She ripped into the myth of genius (“What if Picasso had been born a girl?”, examined the conditions for producing art in terms of social class (“Why have there been no great artists from the aristocracy?”, and concluded that art-making occurred within a social structure and a social context. Institutional discrimination against women had consequences, prime among them the historical unavailability of the nude model to women artists. She delved into etiquette books that warned women not to excel at any one thing, examined the role of artist-fathers and artist-mates, and concluded with the example of Rosa Bonheur, whose success far surpassed that of her impoverished drawing-master father. Nochlin had the grace not to comment on H. W. Janson’s History of Art, the all-male standard art history textbook of the time, or on the odd fact that while male art students traditionally drew from nude models, the model for female students in Thomas Eakins’s life-drawing classes was a cow.

Originally written for an anthology on women in sexist society that had been edited by Vivian Gornick but not yet published, Nochlin’s essay caused feminist artists and the larger art world to question everything. In the early days of racial, ethnic, and gender awareness, the repercussions spread far and wide. The essay literally changed the course of art history.

ARTnews continued to expand on Nochlin’s famous question. In October 1980, asking “Where Are the Great Men Artists?” the magazine featured a cover photo of 20 women and three articles (one of which quoted the late Hannah Wilke: “Where are the great women artists? Judge not lest ye be judged”. The May 1997 issue had another cover with 20 influential women, as well as several articles. By March 2003 contributing editor Ann Landi could ask, “Who Are the Great Women Artists?”

Did Nochlin, who is now at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, have any idea of the impact her article would have? “No, I never think about things like that,” she says. “Big surprise: this year it was used on the SATs without attribution. That,” she adds, “is fame.”