This photo project just won’t die. This is probably the most work I’ve done for photos. Normally, I just shoot the photos, upload to iPhoto, and print as needed. Sometimes I’ll do some minor adjustments, but nothing that takes more than a few seconds. My goal is to take photos that need as little processing in iPhoto or Photoshop as possible…mostly because I suck at Photoshop.
For the in-law photos I did my usual thing: I uploaded to iPhoto and deleted the terrible photos. I was left with 75 decent to great shots and I selected 21 as my favorite. At this point, I thought I was done. My wife had other thoughts.
Now, my new assignment was to convert the 21 favorites to black and white. Converting to black and white in iPhoto is decent, but I opted for Photoshop because I have much more control and the end product is noticeably better. An hour later, the black and white photos were ready.
Then I made the big mistake: I showed my wife a 2 minute slideshow in iPhoto using the 21 best photos. That one act cost me two more hours. Now, she wanted to make an official slideshow and burn it to DVD. I probably could have done it in 15 minutes, but I’m a perfectionist. So, I meticulously put the photos in a pleasing order. I studied the different slideshow themes in iPhoto. I dug deep into my iTunes library to find the best music to go with the slideshow. Each time I made a change, the perfectionist in me had to preview the slideshow to make sure it was just right.
After all that tweaking, the slideshow was ready to burn. I moved it over to iDVD, selected a theme, and hit burn. I tried out the DVD in on my TV. It looked good.
My wife is giving her aunt the photos and slideshow today. I have a feeling that I’m still not completely done with this project…
