For my final project I decided to make a calendar featuring my twin sons. This is something I have been wanting to for a couple of years. Every week since they were born my wife and I have updated their website (COLEANDPARKER.COM) with pictures and text. So I have a lot of historical pictures to work with. The pictures from the first couple of years are low-resolution (640x480), but now I am up to 5 or 6 Meg pictures.
So I started by making a first pass of the 21 thousand picture files I had accumulated in the last 6 years and separating them by the month in which they were taken. As I seleted these pictures I resized them to 300 dpi for printing and saved them in TIFF format (they were JPEGs). This gave me about 1400 candidate pictures to use in my calendar. Now I had a problem, the calendar pictures would be big at least 8x10 and many of my pictures were too low resolution for that large a format, but I really wanted pictures from their early years. The answer was to make a collage for each month.
Now I could start with a blank 8x10 picture in photoshop and start selecting pictures from the month that I was working on and fitting them on to the final picture. The early pictures were only 1.6 x 2 inches.
All of these pictures are from Parker and Cole's website
PARKERANDCOLE.COM or
COLEANDPARKER.COM
2 comments:
Remarkable accomplishments Rod... It's refreshing to see someone with so much love express that love through their art. All the best to you buddy!
You did so much work for this project it really is a little overwhelming but in a good way! It seems having to sort through all those images helped you to figure out or at least start to figure out systems for file management which can take years for a photographer or graphic artist to get. Fantastic results, Rod! Keep shooting RAW!
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