I feel like I landed on a new planet. Nothing looks or acts familiar. The machine is stupid. I'm stupid. Or both. It's so frustrating: the printer won't double side; Photoshop doesn't see the scanner!...I need Valium!
For years I've been using various versions of PhotoShop to manage my digital images as well as to digitize print images. All of a sudden PS CS5 won't "just do it" from the Canoscan, while it's little brother, Adobe Acrobat, does just a fine job. Except using Acrobat instead of PhotoShop takes several extra steps because it expects the image to be PDFs and not JPGs. It took me at least an hour to get to the point where I could make it work. This is eating my life! Giving me headaches! I'm in withdrawal!!
The images I was intent on scanning are photos from Hurricane Carol that whipped up the eastern seaboard all the way to Martha's Vineyard in August of 1954, the first summer my parents rented a little cottage there. I have no specific memories of the experience, only vague impressions (I was 4 years old) and nothing concrete to tether them to, other than these photos my mother took. Here they are, with thoughts of Hurricane Irene, that bitch who might just do it to the Vineyard again.
In any case, here at last are the photos:
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| Menemsha |
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| Edgartown |
Here's hoping the Vineyarders and all the summer vacationers fare better this time around.
Scary times for those in the path of the hurricane. About the only plus is that with a hurricane nowadays there is usually some warning.
ReplyDeleteAnd computer.......... to err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer!
Getting used to a new computer is awful! Good luck - sounds like you're figuring everything out, for better or for worse. How interesting to see the old hurricane pictures.
ReplyDeleteThis all adds to my basic notion that I will not "upgrade" anything to do with my computer set up as long as it keeps on working. I guess in that area of my life I'm a Tea Party type conservative..... in nothing else though. :)
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