After much searching and designing my photography portfolio site is alive and well. I settled on Zenfolio for the hosting service as they are geared toward the photographer. They also let me have unlimited uploads and they backup everything (remember my recent disaster with no backup). Now I have a place to sell my stuff if anyone wants to buy. I even have a special section that is just for the families. It is password protected and once allowed in family members can order prints and a multitude of other products without my intervention. Prices for them are base prices and I don't make a penny from them.
Anyway stop on over to the site. It is located at prill.zenfolio.com . Enjoy and buy somethin'.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
A Busy Couple of Weeks
Yes I know I have not posted anything lately. However I got an excuse (sort of). I had a external hard drive crash and one of the things on it that was not backed up (actually nothing on it was backed up) was our family pictures. Yep I heard a lot of screaming and hollering about that. You see when I was working I was a computer software support person and me of all people should know how important it is to backup your stuff.
Luckily I use Lightroom to catalog all my pictures and lightroom creates a preview file. There is a neat little freeware program called Light Room Viewer (LRviewer) and it can go through your preview file and save the previews as a JPG file. Not the best quality but it is better than no pictures at all. Next I ran these JPG files thought another freeware program called Faststone Image Resizer. This program allowed me to up size the JPG files to something that is a little bigger for printing if need be.
I now have these files backed up and on DVD.
Next I got me another external drive (2 TB) while waiting for my other drive replacement (under warranty) to come.
I have backed up all my photos now and continue on a weekly schedule. I also am in the process of getting an account on Zenfolio to display and/or sell my stuff. Zenfolio allows me to upload unlimited pictures and they back them up also.
So take it from an old geek dog, backup your bones.
I'll let you all know when my Zenfolio site is active. Thanks for stopping by and keep your stick on the ice.
Luckily I use Lightroom to catalog all my pictures and lightroom creates a preview file. There is a neat little freeware program called Light Room Viewer (LRviewer) and it can go through your preview file and save the previews as a JPG file. Not the best quality but it is better than no pictures at all. Next I ran these JPG files thought another freeware program called Faststone Image Resizer. This program allowed me to up size the JPG files to something that is a little bigger for printing if need be.
I now have these files backed up and on DVD.
Next I got me another external drive (2 TB) while waiting for my other drive replacement (under warranty) to come.
I have backed up all my photos now and continue on a weekly schedule. I also am in the process of getting an account on Zenfolio to display and/or sell my stuff. Zenfolio allows me to upload unlimited pictures and they back them up also.
So take it from an old geek dog, backup your bones.
I'll let you all know when my Zenfolio site is active. Thanks for stopping by and keep your stick on the ice.
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