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I have a brand new picture project about to begin. I'm going to print contact sheets to put in a binder so I can leaf through them easily and find the pictures I'm looking for. I know that I have several programs that will do this, but I'm not positive which I'll use for it yet. Photoshop is the clear winner, but I want the name of the folder to print as a label, and it's resisting my attempts to have it do so, and I don't want to add it by hand for every page. Call me lazy, but I have three or four years worth of pictures (or 3,800) that I have sorted by month. I'm also trying to decide what kind of paper to print them on.. very important matters keep me awake at night, you know.
At some point, I went through our masses of digital pictures and sorted them by subject--people, events (with lots of subdirs) and things. For Christmas of 2001, we spent countless hours making a pictures CD for family and friends. We're talking full HTML pages with thumbnails, large images, double captions... and yes, it was done by hand. The original plan was to make it for his family, and then we thought of a few more people to send it to.. three of our friends and one for each of the families in my family, that sort of thing. And after all of that work, most of the recepients were sort of like.. "Oh, that's nice. Thanks.".. including his family (found out last year that they weren't viewing them correctly and had missed all the captions and html..) The three friends we sent them to were more appreciative than anyone. So we didn't even really talk about doing one last year, even though I kind of would like to have them for future use and all. Anyway. During November of 2001, we started putting all the new pictures in a folder for that month to keep them out of our hair while we were working on them. Then we realized that we liked it better that way, so all pictures since then have been nicely organized, but the ones before that were organized using a different system. So I spent a while on Sunday evening resorting and making folder hierarchies.. that's the dorky kind of thing I love to do. That was the inspiration for the contact pages project. Now that it's all sorted back to 2000 (with a Pre1999 catchall folder), that sort of thing would be useful for me. And since I didn't see a reason to delete the old stuff (no problems with HD space).. I can now say that I have my pictures sorted both by date and by subject. Of course, the subject folder is quite outdated, but still. :)
I love pictures and paper and stuff. :) This computer scrapbooking thing seems to be a dangerous sort of hobby.. I'm having a little too much fun with it.
At some point, I went through our masses of digital pictures and sorted them by subject--people, events (with lots of subdirs) and things. For Christmas of 2001, we spent countless hours making a pictures CD for family and friends. We're talking full HTML pages with thumbnails, large images, double captions... and yes, it was done by hand. The original plan was to make it for his family, and then we thought of a few more people to send it to.. three of our friends and one for each of the families in my family, that sort of thing. And after all of that work, most of the recepients were sort of like.. "Oh, that's nice. Thanks.".. including his family (found out last year that they weren't viewing them correctly and had missed all the captions and html..) The three friends we sent them to were more appreciative than anyone. So we didn't even really talk about doing one last year, even though I kind of would like to have them for future use and all. Anyway. During November of 2001, we started putting all the new pictures in a folder for that month to keep them out of our hair while we were working on them. Then we realized that we liked it better that way, so all pictures since then have been nicely organized, but the ones before that were organized using a different system. So I spent a while on Sunday evening resorting and making folder hierarchies.. that's the dorky kind of thing I love to do. That was the inspiration for the contact pages project. Now that it's all sorted back to 2000 (with a Pre1999 catchall folder), that sort of thing would be useful for me. And since I didn't see a reason to delete the old stuff (no problems with HD space).. I can now say that I have my pictures sorted both by date and by subject. Of course, the subject folder is quite outdated, but still. :)
I love pictures and paper and stuff. :) This computer scrapbooking thing seems to be a dangerous sort of hobby.. I'm having a little too much fun with it.
