Newbie's refuge

I’m So sorry

So, a while ago we were visiting a local pawn shop\flea market place\ used goods shop and found this gem. Inscription on the back told only the name of production company (”Saturn” which is? like, completely unknown), year (1986 or 1988, it was long ago) and the title of the picture.

Hell if I know what does it mean. And before recently, ahem, “rooster” wasn’t a term for the male genitals, being instead a sorta derogatory term used only in male prisons with implications about being at the bottom of the pecking (get it?) order and\or\implied as raped by other cell mates.I’m totally lost.

Never trust your software or laptop battery when it has shown that it has some problems before. And especially don’t trust your self-confidence when it says you that it’s fine and nothing will go wrong. Always double check, better yet triple check your equipment.

Yesterday I was finishing up some artwork, I needed only to put some more details on the forefront, a bit more lights and shadows, it took just and hour of peaceful and careful work.Then I pushed save shortcut in photoshop and at the same moment my laptop went out. Now the file is corrupt and unreadible, I spent 4 hours yesterday, trying to fix it - and nothing. I tried a general recover software and it didn’t find nothing. Except for some dormant viruses from previous owner, I guess, my anti-virus soft was going nuts during the work of the recovery program.  I wasn’t making a backup copies, so now, I guess, I’m left with only that preparation sketch.

Though, there might be hope after all. In the morning I was able to recover this thumbnail of my artwork with all of my changes with a psd-recover software, but for now I stuck. 

Maybe I’ll be able to recover it properly, but the full version of this software (Stellar Phoenix PSD recover) was called the scam on the net and the free version can only do previews.And even though I felt devastated when I lost the work I’m not sure that I can afford to spend 39 $ just for a chance to recover it. If you have some ideas about and/or experience with solving such a problem - please, contact me and send in your advise, it’ll be welcomed. So, the moral of the story: folks, don’t overestimate your battery life and proper workings of battery alarm software and always do at least the triple check that everything fine.