Away to Me

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It’s picture-perfect weather in the TN Valley right now, so no time to fiddle with computers and software. Instead, I went bicycling with our daughter. We drove over to the Natchez Trace to see what the road and traffic where like on it (it will be one of the next places we ride).

After parking at the Lauderdale Picnic area right by the TN River, we rode from there to Florence on CR-2. It was a relatively flat to slightly rolling hills ride with minimal traffic until we got into Florence. There are no amenities on the ride, so take lots of water. The ride goes by cotton field and cattle farms.  It was about 17 miles one-way.

Once in Florence, we stopped for a sandwich and ice cream at Trowbridges old-fashioned ice cream parlor and then went on a tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Rosenbaum House.

Today, it will be a quick ride to Ditto Landing on the Aldrige Creek bike path.

Who can resist getting away from the computer and  going out to play with these do-it-yourself pinhole  cameras from Corbis?  No chimping possible with these.

Makes me glad I kept my darkroom and a hefty stash of film.

Thanks, Photojojo!

The export original sized jpeg problem has been solved! While trying to solve my cropping issues, I started looking in the presets to see if anything was awry. I didn’t find anything that affected the cropping, but I did see where the export problem came from.

Somehow, I had two original sized jpeg export presets showing up and one of them had the “Size to” changed. I’m not sure where the second preset came from or why one of them would have had the size changed, but the problem is solved now. Just wish I would have thought of checking that earlier.

There aren’t changeable presets for cropping (although that might be a nice feature), so I still can’t figure out why a ratio set at 1.5 to 1 is cropping at a ratio of 1 to 200 one time and a minute later cropping at a ratio of 11 to 1.

A few things in Aperture 2.1 that make me smile:

1.  The new Dodge & Burn plug in that came in the latest update.  It is found under Images -Edit with - Dodge & Burn.   A new window will open with the image and tools.  When you are done editing, click Save and the edited image will be saved as a TIFF stacked with the unedited version.

2.  Adjustment tools are available at the top of the second monitor.  This allows you to keep Aperture in Browser mode on one display and edit your image on the second display without switching out of Browser mode.

3.  The ability to move to the next image while editing the metadata.  Command + arrow key moves you to the next image without having to leave the metadata field to click on the next image.   A HUGE time-saver.