Yeah, the "subtle, uneven edges" thing is key. My buddy Mike was fighting that slick digital look on his comic panels for weeks. He finally ripped up some watercolor paper, scanned the bits, and made a brush. The difference was crazy. It stopped looking like a perfect vector shape and started feeling like something you could actually touch. He said it was the one trick that finally made his work stop screaming "made in Photoshop.

My optometrist told me last year that for some people, the blue light just makes existing eye strain worse. So if your eyes are already tired from focusing all day, the glasses might take that extra edge off. It's not like they're blocking all blue light, but it could be enough of a filter to help. That's probably why it works for some headaches and does nothing for others.

How do you handle scope creep on those quick jobs without a contract? I had a client ask for "just one more tiny thing" five times on a simple fix, and it turned into a whole new project. My basic contract has a clear scope section that stops that.

Totally agree with @shane434. Makes you wonder how many other "normal" things are secretly carpet killers, right?

My buddy entered his first contest and got told his raw shot 'wasn't processed enough to compete.'