Well…. I spent time today working on tweaking the skull to the left. I started out playing with a new program I found called Pixen. It was pretty good, and a “very powerful MSPaint” just like their spiel. It wasn’t the best, and I got sick of how it seemed to handle windows and layers – I’d go to delete a section of graphic I’d selected – and the layer would disappear, never to return. I gave up trying to work out how to tell which window my keystrokes would affect.

Then I switched to the old standard of Gimpshop, which usually only frustrates me in understanable ways (cos it runs in X11). Although I found a new issue when I was working on the hot rod flames (using the curves tools). I was dragging points around, and I moved the cursor a smidgen outside the window. Then it all disappeared in a puff of nothing – obviously something thought I was trying to drag a point on a curve to the desktop (which doesn’t even work on a conceptual level) and the gimp went to sleep.

Tomorrow (or later), I’ll print a copy of the skull and crossbones and freehand the flames – then scan it back and make it look evil.

And if it looks evil enough…. it may find a warmer home….