Okay, so this week Keo and I got three computer screens calibrated: two in the DLS workroom and one in Special Collections.  We used a spiffy little program called PhotoCal which requires a little machine called a ColorVision monitor Spyder that reminded me of an Ouija fortune teller.  After the screens were calibrated, the Celano images almost look as if they don’t need any color correction anymore--weird.  But as Mark brings up, you never know what another viewer’s screen is going to show so you don’t want to use up too much time/resources attempting perfection.  

 

Mid-week I renamed all the files and put the rectos and versos in order.  In so doing, I discovered that I had three more rectos than versos--darn it.  I went through one by one seeing if each recto had a corresponding verso, and luckily found the three extra rectos within the first 70 images.  

 

So then Minglu and I started editing the 600+ images. Yeah, and I am not much of an efficient leader.  Two weeks ago I had messed around with Photoshop Elements 6 Batch Editing and it worked soooooo flawlessly.  Well couldn’t get that to happen again.  Crash bang boom, Photoshop Elements 5, Photoshop Elements 6 and Photoshop CS3 all broke my heart on the same day.  So after wasting a lot of time trying to figure out the batch editing easily again (which, gee golly, had worked so effortlessly before), Minglu and I decided just to go through one by one by one.  

 

Podcast decisions made!  

Name: ICteencast

Recording Days: rotating Tuesdays and Thursdays

First session: next Tuesday!

First booktalk: Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn

Hoping that first podcast will be on air by next weekend!