Day Three - New Gallery

New gallery! Today I wanted to see how long it would take to set up a new gallery now that I basicly know how the system works. I selected a set of location shots that are varied (in other words, kind of random) and set up the gallery to show square cropped thumbnails.

The square thumbs look really neat in the grid, but they can occasionally crop off a face in a vertical shot. The good thing about them is they make accomodate horizontal shots without any special trouble in terms of the arrangement of thumbnails on the page. Quick and easy!

I'm using Aperture 3 to manage and export images for my galleries. I am really more of a Lightroom guy, and I am much quicker and more knowledgeable with Lightroom, but Aperture has really gotten much better in version 3 and the full screen view rocks. It allows viewing your grid thumbs as well as full or zoomed in images against a pure black background with no UI unless you call it up. Very elegant for previewing and editing.

The new gallery is "Location Fashion" and it's the fourth one down in the Images drop-down menu. And this gallery was really fast and easy to upload and populate. I spent a little time reordering the sequence of images, but that was about all I had to do. Putting the page link into the the drop menu was a quick drag and drop. Sweet!