PHOTOSHOP IS A FERRARI I GET GROCERIES WITH

FIRST A MINOR VEHICLE RANT:

I don’t think you should own a really fast car if you don’t drive it really fast. REALLY fast…. Like if you own a ferrari and you just take it to the grocery store nice and slow lookin’ for looks… you’re are a poser! At least park it like this kid does:

and for what it’s worth…. if you have a stupid fast car and you’d like me to take it somewhere and drive it REALLY fast, I’d be happy to oblige you and have done so with a ’65 shelby GT 500, a really fast Jaguar, a BMW 700i, and a Dodge Viper. The Shelby was the best.

I also don’t think you should own a truck if all you do is carpet the bed of it and go get 2 liter bottles of soda with it. A truck should be used to haul stuff. Dirty stuff. Stuff you don’t want in your car. Big Stuff. Stuff you can’t fit in your trunk.

NOW ONTO MY PHOTOSHOP GIG:

Ok… that said. I think I have committed a similar sin however with my computer. I have Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 and I use them weekly, if not daily in ministry. But I intuitively know that I’m a poser. It can do amazing things…. and I use it to tweak stuff. I wish I was done with seminary so I could go take a class on these programs at the community college. Truth is, I use them to do wimpy stuff that I could have done in keynote or something.

So, last Sunday we needed a slide for a stressful game of “hot potato”. I searched the web, hoping to cheat and find one someone else made and borrow it. Well, instead I found this lovely photoshop tutorial website that showed me exactly how, step by step, to set my own choice of words on FIRE.

HAAAA!

5 minutes later I had turned this slide I made with a lovely kid drawing of a potato on fire that I found: