Can you put a butt on it?

I guess a good place to start is a funny story.

I work at a place that has a yearly walkthrough for Boy Scouts. The boys, ages 4 to about 8, come in and learn about my job of setting up a newspaper, creating ads, editing files, editing photos, etc.

So everyone who took a very traditional route of learning Adobe Photoshop, especially out of the tutorial books, knows of the sample Photoshop rubber ducky.

A group of boys came in for the annual tour last year. They were largely quiet and attentive, asking very few questions and being good little students. But then we came to the duck.

The tutorial that I had remembered learning in school was the clone tool with the duck picture. I figured that was a good, fast way to show the boys a very quick edit.

Very easy and simple.

Then one little boy from the back of the group shouts (not says, but fully shouts), "CAN YOU PUT A BUTT ON IT?!"

The parents standing around were horrified, but I kept my cool.

Very calmly, I replied. "No, I don't think I can."

And so concluded the Boy Scout tour.