My very last project for London Multimedia 2011 is due today and it makes me kind of sad. After I publish my photobook, all my official ties to this class and my classmates will be through. Fortunately, we will still have facebook. I have sometimes cursed but mostly enjoyed posting pictures and thoughts to this blog every day. It's not really difficult to think of things to write about when you are traipsing around London, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Oxford, and Paris. Something is bound to come up.
I made this photobook on my Mac with iPhoto instead of with an online program like Shutterfly or Snapfish. I was therefore able to work on it at internet void places like the Rollerskating rink in Burlington and my house (when the internet decided to flake out). The European Travel theme was nice to work with and the preset layouts weren't too bad. I struggled with my desire to move things around - you can't tweak the layouts very much. It's probably a good thing I didn't have the option to do much custom design with this program since I would still be working on it right now trying to find a way to make myself stop. The fonts were difficult and confusing to work with but it was easy to move the pages around. After I had almost completed the book, I decided I wanted to put my categories of pictures into a Dewey Decimal system classification scheme. I think it works as an organizational method. I am studying to become a professional librarian after all.
After creating the book, I exported it to itunes then uploaded it to vimeo.com.
Cataloguing London Multimedia 2011 from Beth Lehman on Vimeo.
Hope you like it. I had a joyful time taking all these pictures and putting them together. I think it's kind of difficult to see and read so I might redo it on Shutterfly after all. If I do, I'll put it on another blog post.
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