Can Anyone Else Do Something Similar To This?

Post Reply New Topic

I don't know if everyone can do it, but yeah.
I spend quite a bit of time on Photoshop, around 10 minutes a day on average. A week after using Photoshop(I used it more then, like 2 hours a day because I was just discovering it) I noticed I could use Photoshop in my head flawlessly.
I don't know. I see a poster, or an icon, and I can quickly work out, graphically how to do it. I'm quite literally doing it on Photoshop in my head, using all the tools, and I have full access to all the menus. I know it's right because I can go home and follow the exact method.
I can spend hours looking at posters and working out how they did it in a couple of minutes. I was also watching the new Apple keynote, and was looking at the icons they had used and other graphics, and was working out how they did them in Photoshop.
I've never really been able to do this, like, maybe with coding web pages in my head and working out nets of boxes and stuff, but not to this extent. Usually with coding web pages and making boxes, etc. I need to be in a quiet enviroment and close my eyes, with this I can be in the middle of a conversation, look at their pencil case, and start designing the logo in Photoshop on their pencil case, while keeping track of the conversation.
I can even do this with entire operating systems.
Also, I've started being able to do parts of real life objects in my head(so my Photoshop skills are progressing).
So, yeah, can NTs do this?
Can you do this with something else?
I really want to know if this something everyone can do or an aspie thing, or not even an aspie thing.
Thanks,
EMZ=]

Music and math.

The music isn't musical notes in my head; it's tones and the distances between them. I don't have perfect pitch, but I've got instinctive relative pitch (intervals--I can tell you two notes are a third apart but I can't tell if they're C-E or E-G). What I do is picture the distances between the notes, and know whether they're discordant or not, or whether it's a sort of discordant that can be resolved a few notes later on; so I can pretty much make up harmony to a melody that way. I'm not a particularly creative composer, though. Any first-year music student can best me at that; I only know the intervals. Kind of like knowing how to sketch what you see, but not the basics of composing your sketch so it looks good and has meaning.

I see numbers as sizes and areas. It's close to synesthesia but it's not instinctual; it's just a visual way of working with numbers that works better than the procedural ways most people work with them. It's particularly nice because it generalizes to equations, too, letting me see mathematical expressions and how they change and work together. That started around the time I started learning calculus, which relates algebra to geometry.

Yes, Photoshop and sometimes Maya, though not as much as I do with music or sound effects.

Oh, cool.
Is there any NTs reading that can/can't do this?
I'm going to ask my friends tomorrow(when they're online[the only people I know irl who use Photoshop are Aspies]).
EMZ=]

I bet there are artists and musicians that compose their works in their heads before they put them together. Then again, artists and musicians never struck me as quite mainstream NT, anyway

Maya costs an arm and a leg...

Yeah, this sort of thing with Photoshop isn't unusual. I see it a lot with another program called Poser, where occasional threads about it will see real people, and wonder if they can dial certain aspects of them (hair length, etc), or they look just like a particular character (Poser is a program that lets you create and pose human or other characters, create scenes etc. It's not too expensive, but if you want a free lookalike, look for something called Daz Studio).

I've never really played much with Photoshop (I can only afford the Gimp, which is free... but it sounds like you're doing fine. Keep having fun with it.

I have relative pitch as well; I can usually tell you the interval between two notes...which is why I can play by ear...

I can do it with music, both instrumental and electroacoustic. With instrumental music, I know exactly (well, almost: my sense of rhythm isn't quite is as good as my sense of pitch) how what I'm hearing in my head will look on paper. With electronically composed music, I can hear sounds and imagine how they'd sound with various filters put on them, with great accuracy.

I've been building stuff in my head since i first opened my eyes. Though only recently did I discover that this is not the norm. When I look at something, I see it's component parts, individually, and then as i scan over the parts I put them together in my head to see the whole object.

I'm fortunate - extremely fortunate to excel at processing spatial information. Otherwise this would be more of a disability than it is for me. Really the only problem I have with it is at times becoming overwhelmed with visual input, which can trigger a meltdown. Mostly I find it an asset, especially when engaging in my passion - creating visual art.

I'm not sure if I'm even an aspie but I am very good with Photoshop.
I usually am more creative than I planned out (building it inside of my head first) though.

Unless I already KNOW what I want to make.

I can write stories, etc in my head. Not just the plot, the actual words and sentence structure, and I can remember them later when I come to write them down.