Tuesday 6 March 2012

Web Images

How is it March already? Have been in and out of hospital since the beginning of January so that has taken out the first part of this year... but I have no idea where the second half of last year got to! Am signed off work for at least another two weeks and if things don't improve maybe longer... all a bit wait and see. Anyway am getting twitchy so starting to tie up loose ends - one of which was producing a disc of web images for Maggs. Rather a laborious task, hence the leaving it so long, but had been given a gentle nudge so felt obligated to get my proverbial butt in gear...

So the process bit. Initially I tried creating an action in CS4 to batch edit the images but ran into problems. Firstly it dumped them in the wrong folder and then it didn't name them correctly, I wanted them saved as jpegs but 'it' kept saving as psd, eventually concluded it would be quicker to edit individually. Created a watermark using the logo my brother designed for me and added this to each image as a seperate layer, tweaked the opacity, changed the dpi to 72 and saved as jpeg quality 5. Really really boring and took me ages so I guess I need to prioritise learning to create actions!

Then the fun bit. Copied the files to cd but the only cds I had are printable (twice as expensive) ones. Decided I may as well look professional and print a label. For this I used cd label print software: which 'I think' came with the printer. Utilised a free graphic off the net (film cannister) inserted a couple of my images and ditched the ilford branding (stuck my logo in its place) to personalise it a bit. Not particularly time consuming and a whole lot more fun! Could also re-use this at a later date so probably worth playing with now. Hit print and followed the on-screen instructions. Thankfully simple - I knew there was a reason I spent a silly amount of money on this printer!





Plan of Action...

So what next? I think my priority at the moment is to utilise the spare time I have wisely! Finally ventured into college for a morning last week and am about ready to take the test for the MS Word module. Would really like to do the web design module next and get cracking with a new web site. Let the last one disappear, didn't renew the domain name, and registered a new domain name ages ago. Will need to sort out hosting (unless my brother wants to let me steal some of his space again!) and start sifting through all my images for material to put on it. I may be some time....!!!!!!!