Sunday
Apr202008
new client activity
Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 10:32PM
one thing can lead to another.
the minutos have been clients for nearly ten years. mostly, i keep there 'puter running. they started with a packard bell (a cursed machine) that would completely quit working every couple of months. after rebuilding that machine several times, we finally built a new machine. from there we kept moving up, finally switching to a 24" iMac (alum) early this year.
Frank is a professional artist -- very prolific. he also teaches for the Palos verdes Art Center. Debs is a photographer, and she specializes in artist's portfolios - photographing the originals and printing quality giclees. every once in awhile she calls for help with a project in photoshop. her call this week was to create a CD of one of Frank'ss series to present to galleries. it was an excellent time to introduce her to lightroom.
we used lightroom to adjust the images of a few of the photos and to create a screensaver of the series. we also experimented with how it would create a webpage presentation of the series. they liked the result so much, we're finally going to put Frank's work online! as i've been pushing for this for a couple years, i'm absolutely delighted.
we're now figuring out just exactly how we're going to upload the files. one new aspect we're going to try is embedded videos of Frank's "gallery statements". we're going to give him approximately 10 minutes to record a short description of the series, as though he were presenting it in a class lesson. we'll probably use viddler, but (just in case) i'm going to try a few things with garageband. after showing the screensaver to another client, there's even a possibility of having some original music for the site as well.
i guess i'm branching out into "production". ;-)
the minutos have been clients for nearly ten years. mostly, i keep there 'puter running. they started with a packard bell (a cursed machine) that would completely quit working every couple of months. after rebuilding that machine several times, we finally built a new machine. from there we kept moving up, finally switching to a 24" iMac (alum) early this year.
Frank is a professional artist -- very prolific. he also teaches for the Palos verdes Art Center. Debs is a photographer, and she specializes in artist's portfolios - photographing the originals and printing quality giclees. every once in awhile she calls for help with a project in photoshop. her call this week was to create a CD of one of Frank'ss series to present to galleries. it was an excellent time to introduce her to lightroom.
we used lightroom to adjust the images of a few of the photos and to create a screensaver of the series. we also experimented with how it would create a webpage presentation of the series. they liked the result so much, we're finally going to put Frank's work online! as i've been pushing for this for a couple years, i'm absolutely delighted.
we're now figuring out just exactly how we're going to upload the files. one new aspect we're going to try is embedded videos of Frank's "gallery statements". we're going to give him approximately 10 minutes to record a short description of the series, as though he were presenting it in a class lesson. we'll probably use viddler, but (just in case) i'm going to try a few things with garageband. after showing the screensaver to another client, there's even a possibility of having some original music for the site as well.
i guess i'm branching out into "production". ;-)

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