After toiling away in Photoshop for the last hour, I would like to concede defeat to my screencaptures of the Abby/Luka kiss on ER last Thursday (11-10) night. I’ve grown tired of my current message board banner, and quite shockingly (or perhaps not if you’ve been watching the show and feeling as if you’d be better off hitting your head against a brickwall), I don’t want a Danny/Mary one right now. I hadn’t watched ER in over a year, but promos for this last ep hinting that something might happen between Abby and Luka got me to watch. I was not disappointed, and was treated to one very nice kiss at the end of the episode. When I first saw it, I thought it would be perfect fodder for a new banner. Or so I thought…

I got around to capping the scene tonight, fired up Photoshop, and set about making a spiffy new banner. The only problem is, no matter what caps I pick and no matter what combination or order, I cannot get them to blend together at all. It seems like every single cap is close up and has something right at the edge that makes it impossible to get it to mix with something else.

This is not the first time this has happened in my banner making exploits over the years. Upon looking back at some other situations like this, it always seems that it tends to happen the most with scenes that I really want to use the most in artwork.

Maybe I’ll try screencapping the scene again in hopes of getting some decent caps. If not, I suppose I’ll really admit defeat and wait until later in the week. Maybe I’ll get something banner-worthy with Abby and Luke in this upcoming Thursday’s ER, or if not, there’s supposed to be some good Foah stuff coming up at the end of the week on Passions. My luck will probably be there will be good stuff on both, but I’ll run into this same stupid screencap problem again. Oy.