Lesson 1

So, here we are, back to uni-platform programs. Ah, well, I'll just have to stumble along, doing the best I can **sigh!** Click on the image at left to get to the page where the good stuff is. You know the drill: rinse, lather, repeat, wipe hands on pants.

	First step: create a website to display my stuff. Nope. Sorry, can't do that. Be serious, guys! How are you looking at this? Step 1 complete.
	Second step: learn the PiCo interface. They haven't bothered to cross-compile it for my machine, so I guess I don't have to bother learning their interface.
	Third step: Use Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine to create before and afters for two pictures. Well, once again, Fantastic Machine has followed Uncle Bill Gates' lead in copying somebody else's work. From the examples given in the lesson, it looks like Paint Engine is a reverse engineer of Xaos Tools' Paint Alchemy, so I'll use this lesson as an excuse to give that plug-in a workout.
	Fourth step: use PiCo Batch commands to process a series of images. Well, ole one-legged PiCo still won't work on a Reduced Instruction Set Machine, so I'll have to make do with the File > Automate > Create Droplet command that's built into a program I've already paid for -- Photoshop. The "droplet" is a stand-alone application that I just throw a folder at and it takes care of the rest while I go upstairs and read a book.