Reason for absense

Okay the problem now is that not only does my mind refuse to remember that I have to put something here at least twice a week (I mean at least), but also Photoshop is refusing to work.

I am currently faced with a problem where when I start Photoshop - I have probably complained about this before - no matter what tool I select, it always shows the hand icon for it. I've had this problem for a couple months, and I have been trying to find a remedy for the situation. Scouring many online forums I noticed that if this problem was mentioned at all, the overall consensus was that I should press Ctrl+Shift+Alt during Photoshop's startup sequence.Doing so would reset the user settings to default and hopefully solve the problem.

Say if I closed Ps with a specific colour or brush type applied. The user settings would be where this information is saved for when I come back to the program at a later date. With these deleted, even if there was some preference mistake that Photoshop generated or if this problem was a user error, going back to default should erase those changes.

After attempting this procedure the first time it seemed to have worked, so in a very unscientific manner I fell under the impression that it would work every time. It turns out that the hand literally goes away whenever it wants to, regardless of if I use Ctrl+Shift+Alt.

There will be times when I forget to do it when opening Ps but it works like a dream, and then there are other times when I pull it off perfectly and it tells me to talk to the hand. Piece of crap.

I need to reinstall it or something, like seriously. Unfortunately it was installed under most peculiar circumstances and I require assistance to do so. At any rate I am completely Ps-less indefinitely.

I do have other programs though. I mean, I have Corel DRAW which is handy but a little confusing. Also many moons ago I was introduced to an amazing program that resembles the love child between my two image-rendering-program-loves - Photoshop and MS Paint - known simply as Paint.NET. If you like the low-resolution of Paint or do a lot of Oekaki, but would love more flexibility in terms of layers and brushes and the like, then I would recommend Paint.NET.

Unfortunately I have not used Paint.NET in a while and have lost that spark. Alternatively Corel DRAW is so convoluted, whereas Ps is very pick-up-and-use. I can't go back to Paint either only because I'm too used to the freedom in brushes and layers that Ps provides. I used to be the Paint king though. I should show you some of my stuff sometime. But that's for another post.

In the mean time I may have to betray this blog's original purpose of being only for digital stuff, just so I have some content to submit. Well hey we all have to make sacrifices... some less sacrificial than others but still.