Stickem Up

The other day in class, we were working with distressed text.
Stressful it was...
We were to create a wood burned look and then create the distressed text to give it a 1800s shop sign look. GREAT idea, but the directions were written for CS3 when if fact we are working with CS4.
Some may not see the problem in this, but indeed, there is a problem, I wrote the text, and when I went to get the wood look for the background all wood chips broke loose and it just would not work. EPIC FAILURE :)
SO, we could not figure out how to fix it, so I went to the next assignment, hoping I could just forget the disappointment, I did and created a 1960s background, the lava lamp returns.
So I finish the project and look over and they figured out how to fix the western project to work with CS4, :(
I was disappointed, because if I had just stuck it out I could have worked with something pretty incredible that would have been amazing, not to say my 60s project was not insanely cool, but I guess that's what ya get when you give up on something, lesson learned that is for sure!
But for now, I am about to finish up the semester so I'm gonna do what I can!