an immedia reaction

I’ve not had my new mac very long and it’s very different to the ones I trained on when doing my journalism course. I remember a lot of how the interface is set up and where you have to go to do certain actions, and even the ancient macs we have at work follow the rule that closing the programme window itself doesn’t mean you have exited the programme.

However, I think I have finally managed to work out how to copy photos from my photo library into a separate file and edit them without the changes I make being applied in the original folder to the original file. But it was rather annoying that this didn’t happen automatically. And when I open each file to edit it, iPhoto opens it as a new “event”. When you download images off your camera, it groups them by date taken, which is very useful, but calling the copied image a whole new event, really isn’t. But, it’s early days yet and I’m still quite taken with it.

Since persuading my ex that he really wanted to give me a pro Flickr account as a Christmas present, I’ve been quite taken with the site, but still use Facebook more. Flickr’s management of photos is infinitely superior, but I haven’t dared get sucked in to all the networking aspects of it, for fear of losing even more of my soul to the internet.

However, I noticed today that it lets you create badges of your images and thought I would draw your attention to some of my photos of the balloon flight I enjoyed yesterday morning, as a feature assignment for the paper.

I wanted to edit the source code to condense the rectangle widthways and expand it heightwise but couldn’t see where in the code it might be written. I think it’s written in css, any suggestions what I might be looking for..?

Edit: After copy-posting some code The Telf suggested, I’ve now got this a more manageable size, and managed to change the height as well as the width…

I then generated some more source code in flickr to see if I could work out whether I could change the number of photos you’re allowed to display. The options are something like 1, 3, 5 and 10. I I’d like something like 12 or 9. But either I wasn’t looking in the right place to see where the numbers changed (I generated code for 10 pictures and then 5 and tried to compare the two… I guess I could always copy past them into a word document and go through it line by line.. sigh.) or they won’t let you modify it to that extent…

Still, the current display is better than was. So I shall continue messing for a while longer