Where day and night are equals -

"A Night in the Tropics"
digital collage by Mick Mather

It's been a long time since I've installed new software at the Secret Visual Laboratory and I'm still in the playing around mode with it. Much of the work posted over the past few weeks has been passed through the new tools and is showing good potential. Here's another.

The new software has me scratching my head -

"Everything Was Wrong"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Yeah, so I downloaded a new graphics program last night and started tinkering around. I always tinker blindly before consulting the tutorials or help files - lots more fun that way, sometimes. I wanted to add text to a freehand line but was never able to make it actually happen. Worse, almost every time I attempted to do that the program generated errors, locked up and caused general havoc around HQ. I was able to get text into a shape, as you can see, so I'll give things a bit more time before I run, screaming, for the uninstall hammer. That said and with second thoughts creeping in, there are plenty of handy little features that work just fine...I guess I better keep it!