they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

Well, Google-freakin'-fail! Microsoft recommends a ' paid upgrade ' to ensure Photoshop compatibility with Windows 7. Oh really? NO KIDDING? THANKS FOR THE HOT TIP.

So, anyway - is anyone out there using Windows 7 with Photoshop CS? Does it work well, poorly, explode upon contact..? My other OS option is 64-bit Vista. Either option would be Swanky, so that I can get the most use out of this 4GB of memory that I bought!

Thanks in advance, dahlings! My gratitude overfloweth. I will draw you a pony, if you like!

cloud your head and push your buttons

they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

SO I was talking, the other day, to a Final Fantasy fic-writing friend that I hadn't seen in aaaages (Kit; whose story 17th blackbird is an illustration for.. for whose story, I drew fanart.. in which... anyway), and she had someone on ff.net ask her to beta a story. All well and good; Kit noticed that the chick was using a Very Familiar piece of art as her profile image.. e.g., something of mine. Without asking. Or crediting me.

I burst into laughter and said I HAVE ARRIVED!!!, finally my art is popular enough for people to take it without asking. I'm still trying to decide whether to say anything to her or not. She didn't claim it was her, but she didn't give me credit.

cloud your head and push your buttons

they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

I just want to go back to bed; it's a gorgeous Sunday afternoon and I am miserable. My boyfriend has gone to see a movie without me, I emailed a picture of a drawing I'm working on to someone yesterday and haven't heard a word - either she didn't get it or doesn't care, which would really suck, as the drawing is of one of her characters. I guess I'll hope for 'didn't get it.' My best friend, the only person I can actually talk to, has dropped off the face of the earth. Again. If there's someone she feels she can talk to when she's unhappy, that person isn't me, which makes me sad - I just want to help. I have damn near taken the tip of my finger off trying to clean my espresso pot, and friends, when your trusty coffee pot bites you, it's time to go back to bed. I couldn't work on a drawing (it's still worth working on if I care about it) without bleeding all over it.

Last statement is that dA's various 'sadness' smilies are making me smile in spite of myself. hee! I mean, who knew that so much whatever could be packed into 32 pixels? this one even has a wee white flag. *g*

cloud your head and push your buttons

they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

and how you built a tower, tumbling through the trees

Mostly I just felt like updating my journal; is that so wrong? Surely not! I am having great fun with a technique that combines photoshop with actual, physical paint - something I've wanted to do for years, but I was pretty much just making it too hard, and it's easy!

I'll show you later. Maybe. I'm, erm, rather badly out of practice; the resulting painting isn't much to write home about.

It's fun to hide things in one's journal! (even if one's stupid website is down at the moment.. humph! Delayed sort of easter egg.)
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cloud your head and push your buttons

they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

Good times, and you know the art is going well when the worst critique you get is that the happy trail 'should maybe be knocked back a bit, because it's too bright?' I agreed, and said I'd get the wax. XD

People, you should always treasure the company of friends that understand you, even when you're being weird. Or rather, even when they DON'T understand - because you're being weird - they don't hold it against you!

Pretty scandalous journal title, all things considered, when the adult content isn't all THAT bad. Yup, that happy trail remark was it. Still, I'd hope you wouldn't even click, if you thought you'd be offended.

Also, as an unrelated side note, this journal CSS will need some fiddling-with, won't it? It's not mine, I got it from.... oh, crud, I've forgotten. It should be in the readme.. I'll update when I figure it out!

cloud your head and push your buttons