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A little humble pie

After years of self taught image editing and website building I began to think I was all that. You wanted it, I could figure out a way, or so I thought. I am now back to the level of complete beginner. Here’s why:

I have been using Paint shop Pro all this time. Why this instead of the industry standard Photoshop? Paint shop pro is plenty powerful in its own right, and – the price. You can get a new full seat of Paint shop for $80.00 – $100.00. Which made it seem like little skin off my back the first time just to try it, and I just got used to it. It does layers and much the same things as Photoshop and I would STILL be using it if it were not for this one little snafu.

The recent versions of Paint shop pro, for some reason, steal all file associations from Easy Worship

- my wonderful, super powerful weekend worship file program. And when I re-set the file associations Easy Worship still will not show thumbnail images. Unless our volunteers know file names by heart, an unreasonable expectation, they will not be able to add images or videos on the fly to a weekend worship service.

No big deal, you say, just don’t have those two programs on the same computer. Not so easy. Image editing is one of the major things I do for a weekend, and while I often have multiple computers going at once, I need to do final editing on the computer that will be projecting the images – lightness, darkness, and contrast are important to a well done weekend - and worship services trump all else on my computers.

Easy worship support has been very open to looking for a fix and has contacted Paint shop pro. Paint shop pro, not so friendly. Churches don’t seem to be a market they cater to. So after months (I’ve been dealing with this since February) I have sucked it up and made the switch. I know myself, I will go back to Paint shop for easy tasks and consequently never actually learn Photoshop, and so I have gone cold turkey and actually uninstalled Paint shop, forcing myself to use Photoshop.

Now, after seeing Paul’s new blog, I want a makeover of my own. I’ve never really bothered to make this blog pretty. I have a wonderful design in mind, but I can’t even make a basic tileable image in Photoshop. Augh! When you see a new style on this blog, know it is a major victory for me and that I worked hard to learn how to do it.