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For those of you who are classically trained you may have heard the term Divine Proportion. For those of you who are new to it, it's simply an ages old method for describing what should be the separation of an image in pleasing proportions and if you go to Wikipedia.com or even go to Google or any website look for Divine Proportion or the Golden Rule and you'll find that there are a lot of equations and math behind figuring out this proportion. Now let me give you an example. In this image and I'm going to hit the Tab Key to hide all of the palettes, you see that I deliberately didn't put everything in the center of this image. For example look at this series of candle lights in here, the torches, their on one side of the page, this doesn't go all the way around. Also I also have this big vase here and have these columns here that are more illuminated then these. When you use the Divine Proportion the idea is to break the image up into a story so the eye can travel through the image and go where you want it to go. So you want to avoid symmetry. Instead of having two columns here and two columns here and two vases here and two vases there it'll be very boring. So here is the Divine Proportion Tool and you have to turn it on by clicking on the eyeball up here. So there we have it and as you can see you have this crazy, wacky, thing that's splitting your image up into where the eye should go. You also have a palette devoted to the Divine Proportion and with this guy here I can change the orientation of the Divine Proportion Tool. So as you can see in this instance this quadrant or section of the image is broken up so that the eye comes here first. So let me go ahead and just collapse this if I hit this Spacebar again. So once again the eye goes though here, because this section is illuminated and we see that we have some torches ands this moon in a grate shining through this crypt. So you get this nice story telling going on here. You can also if you want to change it around so that you have just one grid inside of here. Also you can use the Slider to change the scale on your own and the rotation to suit the artwork you're creating. You can hide the Grid; you can hide the Spiral if you want to and the Axis. You can also reduce the opacity if you want as well. Now a very interesting thing I want to bring to your attention before I wrap this up is that the Divine Proportion in and of itself is broken into smaller and smaller pieces. Notice that we have this big one here and then inside of that one is another one and inside of that one is another one and believe it or not there's another one here and another one there and another one. It gets smaller and smaller and smaller. So you want to get your appointive interests typically in the crosshair here and I know it sounds like a bunch of crazy stuff, but once again if you go online or look it up you'll find a lot of thought goes into it as far as how to create a very pleasing image. The best way I can leave this is to think of your images in thirds, try not to have everything straight down the middle, evenly divided in symmetry. Try to put things a little bit off here or even human being if you have a face, instead of putting it in the center put it right around here so that we can see the background and the landscape. So you have a farm back here for example and the person's face is right here and maybe a little bit more of that background showing behind their ear. That would give you a much more interesting picture then having them smack in the middle. So once again Divine Proportion.