venta

Well, tonight on my "nice quiet evening sitting doing nothing", I have:

Been to Tesco
Roasted some vegetables, and made roasted vegetable and feta pasties.
Fried lots of pig, and made bacon and sausage meat pasties.
Eaten my tea.
Tidied up the bombsite I'd made of the kitchen.
Installed Potatoshop on my laptop.

Now Potatoshop, my old enemy, and I are about to sit down to try and do what an experienced graphics-package user called "fifteen minutes work".

Start the clock :)

21:51 - Score so far: Photoshop 2, Windows 1, Venta 0

Photoshop: Ctrl-Z doesn't undo in a chain, it toggles between the last undo state and the current state. So, having munged it up, I had to close it and start again.
Windows: Complete, no-warning crash.
Photoshop: The brush tool draws grey, even though it says white is the selected colour. And it now won't use the brush tool at all, or save, because "the scratch pads are full".

?? Off to read the help :(

22:10 - Score so far: Photoshop 3, Windows 2, Venta 1

Photoshop: Descended into disk thrashing, refused to respond, and I wasn't even trying to do anything :(
Windows: Crashed again. My machine hasn't crashed in ages, so I reckon Photoshop encouraged it.
Venta: Have actually successfully edited something! I wouldn't say I'm cooking on classical gas yet, but I am at least in the same room as the stove.

23:20 - Stop the clock!

A plausible finished version. It's not perfect, but I think it's as good as me, my lack of co-ordinated sinistry and dexterity, and my strokey-mouse are going to get it.