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Inspiration Intention Idea

The intention for posts on Creative Coaching is to offer and provide the most authentic creativity connections possible. Check out these links to assist in your adventure of creativity.

  1. Color Palette Generator: Upload an interesting image and receive in return a comprehensive inventory of all the colors involved.
  2. Picasa: Google provides free image editing software for anyone hoping to clean up and edit their digital photos.
  3. Flickr: Flickr not only offers up generous storage space for pictures and video, but a few different ways to edit them as well.
  4. Pixton: Create a number of cool comic strips with this interesting website that helps users create characters and scenes
  5. deviantART: Upload, sell, make prints, and receive (hopefully) valuable advice from one of the internet’s largest artist communities.
  6. Flash PAINT: This full painting application allows participants to create and save their own drawings and sketches – even share them with other users!
  7. Splash Paint: Unfortunately, anyone hoping to preserve their Splash Paint creations will have to screenshot them due to the tool’s lack of a save function. However, it still makes for a fun way to nurture creativity and an eye for color.
  8. Design a Room : For those inclined towards interior decorating, Armstrong’s Design a Room tool provides a wide variety of elements for users to create their dream spaces.
  9. 2Simple Suite: 2Simple hosts a number of creative tools aimed mostly towards kids, involving painting, publishing, animation, and more.
  10. FineArtStudioOnline: Artists hoping to build up their web presence receive a 30 day free trial of FineArtStudioOnline’s personalized marketing services.
  11. Creative Commons License Generator: Any creative types hoping to place their work under the creative commons license can work out the wording that expresses their wishes for the piece or pieces in question.
  12. Fretboardprinter: Guitarists and bassists wanting to keep track of chords and scales will have plenty to appreciate about this valuable tool aimed at both teachers and students.
  13. Sweater Pattern Generator: Knitters looking to whip up a quick sweater can fill out their sizes and preferences and receive a free custom pattern with a quick click of the mouse.
  14. QueekyPaint: Create animated drawings and share them for critique and entertainment in the Queeky community.
  15. Sloper Design Form: Use the Sloper Design Form as a means of creating 3D images suitable for knitting, sewing, and crochet patterns.
  16. Big Ears: This nifty Java applet is considered “the world’s first ear training software” and helps any interested parties learn how to recognize all the elements of music.
  17.  HTML Characters Codes: Web designers will appreciate this reference, which lists name and number codes for special characters.
  18. Dabbleboard: Perfect for businesses, this online whiteboard offers a collaborative method of making sketches for work and play alike.
  19. AllMyMagic: Create a number of different artistic projects with this neat tool, which allows users to write up their own cards and MySpace layouts.
  20. Explore Scales: eMusicTheory.com boasts some excellent, valuable resources for musicians, and this tool helps them memorize and learn one of the fundamentals of creating beautiful sound.
  21. Pixenate: Edit favorite photos or pieces of digital art for use on a shirt, tote bag, mug, or mouse pad.
  22. Elizabethan Smock Pattern Generator: Period costume fanatics or anyone needing to stage a play on a budget may want to check out this generator, which fires off a custom smock in the Elizabethan style.
  23. open-eye Banner Generator: Web developers and graphic designers can whip up quick banners in minutes for ads and other projects.
  24. Tile Machine: Make fitting tiles for wallpapers and backgrounds with this simple, 16-color pixel tool.
  25. SceneCaster: Future filmmakers or those wanting to get a vague idea of scene layouts for comics, animation, and statecraft will have a blast with SceneCaster’s animation tools.
  26. Essential Music Notation: Musicians and music theorists alike have a quick, simple resource to look at for creating and understanding notation – there is even a fun little quiz at the end.
  27. iSketch: Play an online game similar to Pictionary with people from all over the world, though there is a way to create without having to interact with strangers.
  28. ColorPicker: Anyone needing to create a working, harmonious color scheme can fire up the code quickly with this useful tool.
  29. Explore Chords: One of eMusicTheory.com’s numerous musical tools, this one offers up a thorough education on the fundamental chords.
  30. Snipshot: Edit RAW picture files with special effects and face detection tools before saving them as a number of other types for a $5 two-week pass.
  1. Blender: A free piece of open source 3D and traditional animation software, Blender is absolutely perfect for anyone hoping to create compelling, fun, and engaging videos.
  2. GIMP: GIMP edits pictures for GNU and boasts an almost fully customizable interface and a number of excellent features to bring out the best in a work of art.

What is Creativity?

  1. Creativity is the capacity within individuals to develop ideas for the purpose of solving problems and exploiting opportunities. 

It is important to define creativity because it can mean a lot of different things to different people.

Creativity is not art, it is not design and it most certainly is not the sole preserve of tortured geniuses and mad scientists.

Creativity is a capacity – it is something that we can all learn to use more effectively. It allows us to develop ideas to solve problems in different ways and to spot, adapt to, embrace and capture opportunities.

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Thanks to Mark Batey Ph.D. for his research on creativity.

Fostering Creativity #1

The conventional system of schooling is sometimes seen as “stifling” of creativity. The pre-school, kindergarten and early school years are often the only ages where there is an attempt to provide a creativity-friendly, rich, imagination-fostering environment for young children.

Researchers see the importance of fostering creativity because technology is advancing our society at an unprecedented rate. Creative problem solving will be needed to cope with challenges as they arise. Creativity also helps students identify problems where others have failed to do so, in order to discover a solution.

Challenge Creativity

Everyone has creative abilities that operate all the time. You can enhance your creativity by surrounding yourself with diverse stimuli that is changed regularly. Diverse and changing stimuli promote creativity because they get multiple behaviors competing with each other.

To boost your creative output, capture your new ideas as they occur, challenge yourself in order to get ideas competing, broaden your training so that many new repertoires of behavior will be available to compete, and surround yourself as much as possible with diverse and ever-changing stimuli. Anyone can master creative strategies. They are the only things that stand between you and the most creative people in history.

Corpus Callosum Creativity

As a practical matter, the right-hemisphere myth is a little nonsense because virtually no one has a split brain. The two halves of our brain are connected by an immense structure called the corpus callosum, and the hemispheres also communicate through the sense organs. Creativity has no precise location in the human brain. Creativity, in short, is not something mystical; it’s an extension of what you already know.

When it comes to creativity, there’s good news and very good news. The good news is that the mysteries of the creative process are finally giving way to a rigorous scientific analysis. The very good news is that, with the right skills, you can boost your own creative output by a factor of 10 or more. Significant creativity is within everyone’s reach–no exceptions.