Pictorial progress of entertainment center

[mbcabinetmaker]

I have attached photos of a vanity I just completed for a customers home addition. I am starting on a rather involved entertainment center that goes with it. I plan to post pictures of the process as well as some of my own tips and technicians for those that are interested. During this process I would like tips and technique advice for those of you more experienced with the whole picture taking posting process as I continue to struggle in that area. The photo equipment that I use is a point and shoot Panasonic DMC-FZ18 8.1 mega pixel and photo fun studio on the computer. I chose this particular camera because it has the widest angle lens at 28mm. I am sure the problems I am having are not the equipment but the operator. For starters I cannot take a picture with the camera held sideways and get the picture to post correctly.

The attached photos of the vanity were resized in my photo studio to the maximum allowed size of 800x600.

I will keep all future post on this project in this thread and all advice in the photo process will be greatly appreciated. This should be a fun thread and we will even us some Shopsmith equipment along the way.

Thanks
Mark

[mickyd]

Beautiful work Mark. Very professional. You should be proud.

You can get lots of help with the photo stuff here. There is a lot of expertise in this area. Just ask away. Your rotation issue is one area that I'll look into for you. I'll let you know what I come up with.

[tom_k/mo]

For starters I cannot take a picture with the camera held sideways and get the picture to post correctly.

The attached photos of the vanity were resized in my photo studio to the maximum allowed size of 800x600.


Mark, that is some beautiful work. You should be proud.

Regarding your photo "issues"... is your computer running XP or Vista? If you're using XP there was a PowerToy that you can download from Microsoft's web site that is a real nice image resizer that works simply and you don't have to load the images into any kind of other program to resize. For whatever reason, they did not create a similar PowerToy for Vista, however I have found a free download utility for Vista that works similarly. If you're using Vista and are interested in it, let me know and I'll dig up the download link.

The photo / fax viewer that comes in Windows allows you to rotate the images to the correct orientation before uploading.

[mbcabinetmaker]

Thanks Micky.

I'll start the journey on the entertainment center with a trip to the job sight now to check some field measurements. I'll take the camera along. Pictures later today.

Mark

[mbcabinetmaker]

Tom

I do have Vista. I can rotate the pictures anyway I want with my photo studio but they still come out the exact way the camera was held when uploaded. The whole thing makes no sense to me.

Thanks
Mark

[Gene Howe]

Beautiful work. Your customer must be ecstatic.
What will be your finish?
No help here on the photos. Tech savvy I am NOT!

[tdubnik]

Tom

I do have Vista. I can rotate the pictures anyway I want with my photo studio but they still come out the exact way the camera was held when uploaded. The whole thing makes no sense to me.

Thanks
Mark

You may have to "re-save" the picture after you rotate it or else the image is just presented differently on the screen but original in your hard drive.

[tom_k/mo]

Tom

I do have Vista. I can rotate the pictures anyway I want with my photo studio but they still come out the exact way the camera was held when uploaded. The whole thing makes no sense to me.

Thanks
Mark

Mark, not sure about your "Photo Studio" software, but if you use Windows Photo Gallery that comes with Vista, which should be the default application for JPG files, you can rotate them in it, and they will remain rotated and display rotated when uploaded. You should ALSO be able to rotate the image simply by right-clicking on the image icon and selecting Rotate Clockwise or Rotate Counterclockwise options from the pop-up menu. Check the screen capture below.