Sunday, August 29, 2004

Oh, Hell, Like I Need Another Blog

There's nothing like expediency for expediting something. There probably won't be much content posted here, although I might use it as a photolog using the free Pikasa/Hello software now and then.

I just needed to be able to comment on other Blogger blogs, and bloggity bloggity blog blog blog.

6 comments:

Rubber Duckie said...

I'll be the first poster at the poster party...

Here's to your blog and your bloggity blog bloggin...

Ginny said...

I need a drink. This is getting WAY complex.

Rubber Duckie said...
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Rubber Duckie said...

I can't even spell your...
I meant to say, your pictures are so much clearer than mine. Are you using Picasa as a host? cause I'm not and that may be the difference, but then again, I am a computer idiot so I don't know...

Ginny said...

Well, thank you. How did you upload your rainbow picture? It's gorgeous! Where was it taken?

I have to use Hello because I don't have this blog set up for FTP technobabble-argle-bargle-web-hosted-elsewhere stuff. Your picture would probably work better if you resized it; it's so big now it overflows the margins of your post, and it might look clearer and cleaner if you uploaded a smaller copy. I've noticed that happens with mine - at too big a size, the resolution gets sorta grainy.

The nice thing about Hello is that it will resize images automagically for your blog - when you go in to set it up, it shows you the default sizes for your daily/main index posts, and the larger default sizes the photos will be in your archive pages (which have wider margins).

I use a version of Photoshop that came with my camera, which makes it possible to resize, crop, and do a few fun things (I haven't gotten into the whole Photoshop fakery thing, but can appreciate the work that goes into it). I had to slightly rotate the "winery dog" photo to get the wineboxes to be vertical; then I cropped along the line to get rid of some guy's legs, and also cropped out some extra glare on the other side. The original is at http://gallery.blogula-rasa.com/Napa-And-The-City/winedog001 so that you can see the difference.

I'm not sure how I figured out how to do this stuff, but a lot of it was along the lines of "Honeeeeeey? How do I..."

Criminy, I just realized I have to allow anonymous comments. I'll reset that.

Rubber Duckie said...

Hey Ginny! Thanks for the information. The rainbow isn't mine...it's a link. I had posted some personal pictures which I soon deleted. There were all fuzzy anyway. I then downloaded Picasa and now my pictures are all clear. It seems Hello works much better when you use Picasa.