8 - Optimization Explosion

So this round of blog poker leads way to optimization and various aspects of print portfolios. I learned quickly when getting my stuff together that I would have much preferred to have the original work that I did it in, only to find that in one of my “cleanups” of the hard drive, my stuff was lost into the abyss formerly known as the recycle bin. Epic fail on my part there. Regardless, I’m doing what I can to pull out various designs and other things for the fuzzy wuzzies of the world who wish to see some original stuff.

I’ve grown to become buddy buddy with exporting as PDF’s lately. Not only for my main PDF, but also to bundle a bunch of my stuff together so I’d be less likely to lose it. Just trying to jack as much stuff as I can and get it on one disk and the like before I run away and never see QU again. I’ve already lost enough at the hands of Marcus leaving, I’d prefer not to have my one copy of my work implode and, once again, fall into the abyss. It’d be like that one sock that you can never find. You could totally have a match if you could find that one sock, but it eludes you, and forever will. Until you lose the second one, then of course the first will come up.

I’ve also come to the conclusion that optimized JPEG’s never look how I want them to. Even if I crank it up to full quality, I can never be happy with it, and I probably never will be.

So, my self promo is gonna be a drink coaster. To hand in for class though is probably gonna be el cheapo cork coaster bought from Wal-mart with my logo glued onto it and passed off as a prototype. It’ll work, I’m just kinda miffed that I couldn’t get a particular number made. No thank you, I do not wish to have 5000 drink coasters sent to my house. Needless to say, try as I might, I don’t believe I’ll be having 5000 drinks out simultaneously to occupy said coasters.

I’m also shying away from having a print portfolio. If I can deck out a good enough PDF that’s eventually print worthy, it’ll be one up on any print portfolio that I could make. Which is good.

I leave you now with some information regarding 64-bit Photoshop CS4