ChriscoDesigns

Hello, everyone. It's been a while! I hope you are all doing well. The primary reason I am posting today is that I want to make amends for some unacknowledged wrongs in my past. I am not seeking forgiveness, but rather the opportunity to apologize to everyone who was on the receiving end of these wrongs. I have carried the guilt for years, and I finally want to acknowledge it and stop pretending it is something that should be left alone. I began designing when I was very young. I do not remember my exact age, but I would guess I was between nine and ten years old. For many years (specifically during my Paint.NET forum days) I was dishonest in many ways. I voted for myself in competitions using alternate accounts. I said I had done things I had not. I said I created work in Paint.NET that was actually created in Photoshop. Most egregiously, I used resources I did not create without attribution, assuming all of the credit for the creation of the works that utilized them. There were