OH! I know I shouldn't have! I know it, I know it, I know it. I've just upgraded to PSP 8, for heaven's sake! I don't really like PSP 8, but that's no reason to go out and throw away a lot of money on all-new artys-fartsy photo manipulating softwear, is it? No. It isn't. I know. But, the deed is done: I signed the receipt, took the pretty little box home, ripped it open, and installed Adobe Creative Suite Standard 1.1 on my computer.

I don't even really know what I'm going to do with the darn thing! It's not like I'm a professional graphics artist, or web designer, or anything. I'm just an amature photographer who likes to play around with her photographs, and who mucks about with her own website design, trying to make it look more professionally done. I really can't justify this purchase, except to say, I've been wanting it; wanting Photo Shop and Adobe Illustrator for so long! And, as a Professional Spoiled Rotton Brat, I always get what I want. Well. Sometimes. Occasionally. Periodically. Every once in a blue moon. Anyway . . .

For years I've seen such gorgeous layouts done using PS with brushes and stuff, and I've wanted to do that for my own sites. I could never manage it with PSP. The best I could do is basically what you see here. Now, maybe someone out there will say I could've studied PSP a bit more, and figured out how to do some super cool things with it, but quite frankly, I doubt it. Besides, as I said, PSP 8 was pissing me off. Yeah, I know: that's no excuse. At least not a very good one, but there you go. It's all I have.