A few days ago, I started working on the announcement postcards for the Hartnell show. I’ve had good luck with Modern Postcard in the past, so I decided to use them again. When I took a look at their website, I found that things have changed for the better. There are a number of available… [Read More]

Yesterday, I signed the prints, put them in the transport case I had purchased from Archival Methods, and took them over to Hartnell. Eric had already received the plex, and had arranged it on the gallery floor as he figured out how many pictures would fit on each wall. He told me that he thinks… [Read More]

I talked to Eric the other day about the wall labels for the Hartnell exhibition. He said he’d be happy to format and print the labels; all he needed from me was a Word file with the titles and dates. Since the titles of the images were already entered as metadata in the image files,… [Read More]

Within a few months of starting to use Lightroom, I was using it for all my printing. The Hartnell show is no exception. Printing from Lightroom has many advantages over printing directly from Photoshop. Parametrically specifying the margins means you can print a whole series of images without worrying about the detailed layout of each… [Read More]

The standard typewriter keyboard was designed in the 1870s to minimize jams. The key layout had the unfortunate side effect of slowing down typists compared to alternative schemes. None of the alternative layouts are popular today, in spite of their demonstrated advantages to a typist trained in their use. The reason? People have gotten used… [Read More]