Lucy was spayed yesterday and won't stop biting at her stitches - so she's got a 'cone of shame' on. As you can see, she's absolutely thrilled about that...

In other news, the lovely Lilian has made me a layout which I will try and put up at some point. Scott has also made me a layout, perhaps my failures with Photoshop (see previous entry) really are that obvious... Oops.

PS. Apparently 'conehead' is slang for a druggie or something. I should add that my cat is absolutely not a druggie (...to my knowledge, anyway...) and I'm simply referring to the fact that she has an Elizabethan collar (aka cone) on her head. Just in case anyone was confused, k? K. :P

I'm trying to re-learn to use Photoshop, because I haven't used it since 2004 when the current version was CS or CS2. As you can see, this layout looks like ... well, something not very nice ... and I need to make a better one. This layout will have been up for a year come next week and I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of it. I've been using Paint Shop Pro for the last few years because Photoshop was so overpriced, but as nice as PSP is, it's just not cutting it any more. I've currently got the CS4 trial of PS and am hoping I can re-learn what I lost over the past 6 years before I consider whether I've got the £600 Adobe want for their software (and no, I'm not going to crack it/torrent it/keygen it/get it illegally. I have my reasons but that's for another post :P ).

So. Not only do I need inspiration, I also need your help: tutorials! Photoshop CS4 is very different to CS or whatever it is I used last and I'm lost. I've been pointed towards Tutorial9 and psd.tuts+ which are both very good but I'm open to other options too :)

CSS Naked Day is upon us again and as is customary, my site has no CSS for the next 24 hours or so (or sooner, if I get bored). This is my fourth year taking part. Is that good or bad? XD

Edit: Styles are back, got bored of looking at my naked site :P