Doh!

So, yesterday, despite my ever growing to-do list, I determined to carve out my little chunk of time to try to finish last week's lesson, and complete one full lesson beyond that.  I opened up my book at the coffee shop and I was sooooooooooo excited! The lesson was on PROJECTS!! Using photoshop to create cards and photobooks and other artistic additions to photos.  I could hardly contain myself in public--so eager to begin that lesson I wanted to shout "woohooo!" Anyway, I began and was doing all sorts of cool things, learning about new menus and tons of options from backgrounds, styles of frames for pictures, etc.  The exercise had me dropping several of these frames, textures, graphics, backgrounds, etc into a favorites box to be used for the projects.  And then..the moment I had been waiting for- making a card.  That's my deal, ya know? I love making cards- even more so if it combines photography! So, I click on the "Greeting Card" button and wait for the new drop down menu to appear.  :( nope. Instead, an error code- "this size not available' or something like that.  There seems to be no way around it from the google search and suggested remedy.  I wonder if it has something to do with Windows8 on my computer that is supposedly not compatible with this version of photoshop.  My husband was able to load the program anyway, with some tricks found online- but perhaps this is the fall out?  I don't know.  But, man I was disappointed!  I am going to try to redo that portion of the lesson at some point on my desktop at home but wouldn't it be nice if the ONE thing I am most excited to create was available where all my pictures are stored?! :) I did get to work on a photo album though with no apparent problems, but didn't get to finish due to the trouble-shooting time taken with the other problem.  I am definitely getting into some exciting portions of my book now.  It's hard to not gravitate toward my computer to work on that rather than my other responsibilities!