Another weekend has come and gone and I’m sitting here trying to remember just what it was that I did for the past couple of days. One thing I do remember doing was watching tropical storm Hannah dump a lot of rain and wind in my area. No damage to report but I know that all that rain is going to inspire my grass to start growing again. Guess what I’ll be doing next weekend. One thing I do remember doing was installing Lightroom 2.0 on my laptop. I have been using the 2.0 beta for some time now and just didn’t want to make the switch to the final release until I had to. Well this weekend my beta expired so I guess it was Adobe’s way of telling me I had to. The install went smoothly and I updated my LR 1.4 catalogs for 2.0 but my problem is now trying to find my beta catalog to see if I can have it added to the current version.
I had limited use of the newly installed version but my first impressions lead me to understand why some folks are less than pleased (see my post from last Friday). Everything worked as it should but I did notice an appreciable slowdown in image processing. Perhaps this was because LR2 had not finished digesting all of the new images I added from the catalog update but I never saw any indicators that LR was processing anything that might have accounted for the slowdown. I will add some new images this week and see if it starts behaving itself as well as the beta version which I truly grew to love.
I also spent some quality time in Photoshop processing a bunch of family reunion photographs that I had let slip to the back burner. Of course most of you that are photographers know that it is your familial duty to take all family reunion group shots. Such was my task, which I happily did back in July. The big problem isn’t taking the photos, it’s distributing them to family members that are spread across the country. This year I decided to try something new. The Photoshop Guys are always raving about MPIX printing services so I decided to check it out. They have redesigned their website and navigation is very simple. First I registered with the site and created a personal account. Then I created a new album and uploaded my family reunion photos. Finally, I used their Share function to send emails to all my family members so they could review the photos and order their own prints. The prices are very reasonable (8×10 E Surface prints are only $1.99 each) and MPIX uses flat shipping rates so there are no surprises when ordering. I am going to order a few 8x10s and I will let you know what I think once they arrive.
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hey jeff – will try out mpix soon too! saw their booth at the tech expo and the prints look great.