I never regret helping… sometimes in doing so I gain knowledge myself. … If at first I don’t know how to do something…I always find a way… There is no such thing as impossible, besides impossibility 
Either way its good developer relations. Even when I’m extremely busy I always find time to help… or at least get someone pointed in the right direction. If you’re not using time, its wasting
No regrets… life’s too short.
Btw using a similar method as fading out the image you can fade-in as well (just start with the faded image by setting fadecolor to 255 and decrease the value instead of increasing it…stopping at 0 of course).