Crazy But Able

I’m taking the Paul Butzi challenge: I’m posting my contact sheets from my SoFoBoMo pics. Now, this is hard for me. I don’t like the idea of just throwing out my images in progress, I like to hold my cards close to my chest. Nevertheless, I’m going for it.

Now, I don’t have Adobe Bridge because I still can’t afford Photoshop. I get by with Lightroom and the Gimp and eventually I’ll reinstall Photoshop Elements 2.0 once I find my install CD. So I faced a dilemma: how to go about creating contact sheets? I couldn’t figure out a method of doing it with Lightroom (1.2, I still haven’t upgraded yet). I couldn’t figure out a method of doing it with the Gimp that didn’t involve actually running the GIMP on Linux (which I don’t). Couldn’t figure out an easy method of scripting it with ImageMagick.

So I figured, what the hell, I guess I’ll put that Comp. Sci. degree to good use. I whipped up a contact sheet generator app in about an hour. I hand-coded a lot of values, and made a lot of assumptions (it will only work with files I get from the coolpix at the moment, because the coolpix doesn’t automatically rotate images based on how you hold the camera, for instance). It looks like my default width of 90 pixels is a smidge too small, but maybe I’ll fix that later.

Images after the jump.

Note that I only have three days worth of images on here because images from days 4-7 are still on the camera.

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

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