Working on the photos

The reunion is over.

This year there were a million shots taken as the reunion gathered up people that wouldn't begin to talk to each other in high school but they became good acquaintances at the party.

The big topic of conversation among us all.. when will you retire. Some have retired and are working for their kids.. imagine that. Bill King is working for his son who has a construction company in Sacramento.

Some were interested in what kids we had and what they did. One, Frank Drago was interested in what Heather did since he is a judge on many cases that deal with the same people that Heather works with.

Last night I started to tackle the first photos that Rose has sent me. They are going into pages on the website. It is sure nice to deal with digital photos. First they are color corrected.. I usually need to do a little curve treatment on them. Then I look at the eyes and wipe out the red in the eyes.. Photoshop has a replace the color brush.. it is wonderful for dropping on some black which turns to grey when it is painted over the red. I have an action that renames and re sizes each photo to give me a 75 dpi 400 wide pixel photo. The height is one constraint that I don't mess with. This is done is a batch. The group of re sized photos is loaded on to the external hard drive and then imported into the web page design program in the proper folder where I may use them to compose the pages. I compose the pages and copy and paste in the caption data that was e-mailed me at the same time as the digital file. Then the parts need to be uploaded to the server and checked with an outside browser, Whew that does look like a long process. No wonder more people do blogs.

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Pat