Well now. THAT was interesting.

I've mentioned many times that I have shortcut files for each of my titles (except Naruto, b/c it's pointless) where I save hand-drawn FX that frequently appear, and everyone's handwriting fonts, and things like signs, or seals in Natsume and movie scripts covers in Skip. Today I used my Skip shortcuts file for the first time on Shetan, and things were fine. UNTIL I tried to save it with the new FX I wanted to add to my library.

Photoshop CS3 crashed. I reopened Photoshop, opened the shortcuts file, and tried to save it again with the new addition, crash. I tried restarting Shetan, tried to save the file, Photoshop crashed. And then Photoshop couldn't even open the shortcuts file at all, which was nuts because I'd been using it fine before.

I finally saved the shortcuts file to a thumb drive and opened it on my laptop, Usagi, who is running good old Photoshop CS. Opened juuuust fine. I cut the file in half, pulled out the hand-drawn FX, the different type notes, and the handwriting fonts list all as one file; and all the signs, scripts, and omake layers as a 2nd file.

Photoshop CS3 on Shetan could open the hand-drawn FX shortcuts file fine, and saved it too. Yay! But the other one? Nope.

Back to Usagi, I cut that one into three files: omake, current signs and scripts, and then old signs and scripts from previous volumes that are unlikely to be needed again. You know, like the Curara commericial stuff from vol 5, and the Dark Moon promo poster from vols 10 and 11. That stuff.

Photoshop CS3 was good with the omake, the current signs and scripts, but crashed when I tried to open the old signs and scripts. Something in the old signs and scripts files does NOT agree with Photoshop CS3, and hell if I know what it is. That file consists of nothing but images and text. That's it. *is flabbergasted*

So here's hoping I really won't be needing any of those old signs and things. If I do, I'll just open the file on Usagi, save what I need in its own tiny little Photoshop file, and reeeeely hope it doesn't happen to be whatever Photoshop CS3 doesn't like. :/

FUN TIMES. WTF, Photoshop??!