Frantic
It has already been a rough day and it's not even 1pm. This morning started off badly because the new plugins that I purchased (or thought I had) hadn't shown up in my email. So I begin trying to figure out why that got bounced back. Thought perhaps it was because of my email address (being a Yahoo account) and come to find out that my credit card had stopped it because they thought it was fraudulent activity. Great.
Got to the office to continue the frenzy of people packing and trying to figure what to do. Meanwhile, I get asked to rework the entire employee handbook. It was started in Quark, completed in Word ... and now I get to try to layout it nice in InDesign. Woohoo. PS - our office is moving in the next week ... this should get fun.
The phone had been ringing nonstop. And strange people keep coming in ... oh how I hate salespeople. AND don't forget I have been trying to get the freelance jobs done, too. Got one customer all done yesterday ... and now my larger of the two showed up. It is three projects rolled into one for simpler payments ... um ... right.
So - enough about my psychotic office. It is now dead silent and I am taking a short break to show you what I so deseparately wanted to buy ... the plugins!
This is the Noiseware Pro plugin that I have been (im)patiently waiting for. I got a NAPP discount ... and had to wait for them to renegoiate their discountage all of last week. It is going to help me with the portraits especially (there was a plugin called Portraiture but I've played with that one too much yet). Anyway - as you can see - it greatly reduces the noise which you may or may not care about ... all depending on your print size. But I have decided to make it my general rule to work on everything as large as possible ... should someone need bigger than 8x10 prints ... I don't want to be stuck doing all the work over again.
What do you think? I turned down the smoothing a little bit on one of the settings. It was starting to look too fakey ...
Got to the office to continue the frenzy of people packing and trying to figure what to do. Meanwhile, I get asked to rework the entire employee handbook. It was started in Quark, completed in Word ... and now I get to try to layout it nice in InDesign. Woohoo. PS - our office is moving in the next week ... this should get fun.
The phone had been ringing nonstop. And strange people keep coming in ... oh how I hate salespeople. AND don't forget I have been trying to get the freelance jobs done, too. Got one customer all done yesterday ... and now my larger of the two showed up. It is three projects rolled into one for simpler payments ... um ... right.
So - enough about my psychotic office. It is now dead silent and I am taking a short break to show you what I so deseparately wanted to buy ... the plugins!
This is the Noiseware Pro plugin that I have been (im)patiently waiting for. I got a NAPP discount ... and had to wait for them to renegoiate their discountage all of last week. It is going to help me with the portraits especially (there was a plugin called Portraiture but I've played with that one too much yet). Anyway - as you can see - it greatly reduces the noise which you may or may not care about ... all depending on your print size. But I have decided to make it my general rule to work on everything as large as possible ... should someone need bigger than 8x10 prints ... I don't want to be stuck doing all the work over again.
What do you think? I turned down the smoothing a little bit on one of the settings. It was starting to look too fakey ...
posted by Ren at 12:46 PM
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