from the desk of stinkpot

oh so close to finally getting all of the photos from the philippines online.

sorting through all 1600 original photos was like sitting through a colorful, but still intensely repetitive assembly line. what doesn’t help is my habit of taking two or three photos for every single shot i want (made necessary by my lousy focusing skillz). making the photo processing much more enjoyable, however, was getting a chance to use some new photo software: apple’s aperture. i outgrew my childhood photo software friend – iphoto – some time ago, but really had nothing else to turn to. until last week, that is, when aperture descended like some steve jesus-bestowed revelation.

finally, i can adjust individual color channel levels, batch change photos, and edit RAW files. aperture is like a neutered version of photoshop (can’t draw nearly as much), but with all of iphoto’s elegant and intuitive ways of browsing through image libraries. in addition, someone has even written a free plug-in that lets me directly upload images from aperture to and my webserver’s photo gallery. and, i’m only scratching the surface; i feel like i’ve been handed a 16-ounce swiss army knife when all i wanted was a small pair of scissors and a screwdriver. because believe you me – this thing weighs a ton: aperture was drinking about 4.5 gigs of swap memory before it crashed on me earlier this evening. chubby could use some stairmaster.

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