Photoshop and Original Sin

A misspelling can be changed. But only as long as the change goes to the root.

A couple years ago I was asked to create a logo for our church. A daunting task indeed. The public image of the church was now placed in the incapable hands of a novice. I suppose some people just have strong faith…

But I toiled through the project and got the work approved. And I promise to you that I had the logo checked and double-checked by so many people that there was no way that an egregious error would come back to bite me. 

Well, it did. Who knew that the absence of a little letter i  would be my undoing. Ok, thats over-dramatizing the situation but still, my spelling positive as postive has been the highlight of my illustrious graphic design career. 

 So I did what any other person would do. I fixed the mistake and created new logos. And for the last two years we have been a model of spelling royalty. 

Until last Monday.

Its when we got word that the huge t-shirt order contained a misspelling. 

Really?

Yeah, postive crept up again. Fortunately the company caught it and fixed the problem. 

But it sent me on a scavenger hunt trying to find how this could have happened. Again. 

The Corrected Version 

Well I looked back into an original source file. And there I found the error. Tucked gently, neatly, inconspicuously into the logo which I had to needed to convert to black for the shirts. I changed the color, but not the spelling. 

And yet all I can think of is sin. Not that spelling something wrong is a sin (well, maybe) but sin gets into our original source files and it seems to rear its ugly head every now and then just to remind us that we ultimately fail when we rely on our own strength.

But this ordeal has also made me grateful for grace. Yes I mess up but I have the power (through Jesus) to change the original source files and live an less error filled life.