Empathy in shades of grey. Scientific American has an insightful and beautifully written article asking whether it is possible to make sense of empathy using brain scans.
Neuroscience studies are increasingly focusing on what science calls ‘high level’ concepts and what those outside the field might just call ‘vague’. Empathy is probably not in the ‘vague’ category although it is true to say that there are several competing definitions and no standard way of measuring it. It does have huge intuitive appeal, however, leading to a boom in brain scanning studies that are trying to pin down how we understand other people’s emotions. The SciAm piece takes a trip to the Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT to take a look at how at how a study is attempting to understand the neuroscience of empathy, as well as asking some searching questions about whether we are over-simplifying the problem A short but excellent piece of writing.
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Serpent Cider is a craft apple cider product from British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. The packaging features a wrap-around silk-screened label design that references Ogopogo, a cryptid lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake. It was designed to lure craft beer drinkers into trying something a bit outside of their typical purview. The making of mystic.
In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image.
This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You'll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how Nik creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. Let's check it out. Introduction Hello everyone, before we get down to actually starting any Photoshop work I thought I would say a few words. First, and most importantly, I should state that this is by no means a tutorial for beginners. Basically, the idea behind this tutorial is to document the process I used while making this image from start to finish. Realistically, it would also be almost impossible for me to record every single action I make while producing an image. Another way in which this article might differ from a more traditional 'recipe' style tutorial is the lack of precise instructions. Anyway, it's time to start thinking about creating this image.
Right, enough of that. Photoshop tutorials , Flash tutorials, PHP tutorials and much mo. Sometimes, when watching film, I was really impressive by many wonderful sightseeing which we could never see in the real-life.
Now, with Photoshop, I am able to create those kinds of special effects for my favorites sightseeing images. The final result is the peaceful, mysterious and beautiful sunset on the highland. I hope that I could see this effect even just once in my life. Now, let ‘s do this. Step 1: Prepare a pic similar like below,which you can clearly see the sky line (Link to the pic in the tut will be provided later in the end of the tutorial) Then,click the icon next to the “Quick Mask” on the layer tab,and then choose Curves,and make the line go like the pic below. You will have result as below. Daguerreotypes - Daguerre Effect - Photoshop Tutorial Photo Effe. Early Daguerreotypes were highly polished, very delicate, and easily scratched, and the chemical processes were not yet fixed and dependable.
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