Another step along the blogging road
18 05 2008My memory (or lack of it) never ceases to amaze me . . . I totally forgot that I had already signed up for a Flickr account and posted pictures from it on my blog page. On the plus side I had an extra hour now to learn something new about posting pictures, so I played around with the tiff/jpeg format. Since I couldn’t upload the smallest tiff image that I had to Flickr’s free account I needed to find another way to create a jpeg from it. I started reading the “help” section on iPhoto (when all else fails . . . ) and there it was - I had the capability all along and didn’t know it! I could open the tiff image in ‘Preview’ and save it in another format - it was that easy. D’oh!!!!!!
I’m writing this down because I want to remember all this, dang it. I bet everyone and their pet fish already knows this, but that’s ok, it made my weekend to finally figure it out.
I’m finally getting some more work done in the studio, although it’s never as much as I hope for. Handbuilding is such a slow process, at least compared to throwing, that I never feel caught up, especially if I try anything experimental. I’m pretty happy with the process I’ve developed now, though, so I’ll be sticking with that for the time being.
I want to create a section that just deals with that - my work process and how it changes (or doesn’t). I’ve been very bad about documenting techniques and inspirations, as well as forms, and I need to do a better job. It would help me tremendously to understand my own work better and to verbalize my interests and objectives. It could also help me do a better job of marketing . . . I really, really dislike talking about my own work. I’ve come to the realization lately how much that is to my own detriment, since I sound kind of stupid when asked about anything more than my work process or some other technical question. So there’s my next project, and hopefully with the new camera I should be getting (as soon as Uncle Sam sends our refund check) I’ll be able to have some visuals as well as written descriptions of the work.
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Tags : Flickr, hand building, tiff to jpeg
Categories : learning to blog

