New Year resolution: Editing

This time I started executing my New Year resolution before New Year’s Eve, which made me feel quite the hero :)

Fact is that I was (am) having a considerable amount of trouble doing the final edit for PINK LOBO, something I have not had this bad so far with other edits.

Usually I am really good and fine doing edits on my computer and then just final checking with prints. This time my normal procedure is not working at all. Probably because I cannot deal with the extremely small representations of the images. They are all reddish-pink (with some blue) and not very contrasty, so if I look at the tiny previews, they look too much the same and I cannot tell enough to choose.

Another thing is that I want to show them in pairs. So when you open the book, you will aways see images that belong together as a pair.

So this time I took over the livingroom table and built another improvised one by placing a board onto a sofa … then I sorted the prints. First choosing from variations, leaving potential alternatives below in a stack (picture above) and then coming up with pairs (below). Now I will go back to the screen to come up with an page order, which I will then lay out onto the table to check again. So it will be a back and forth until things are finally sorted out for the dummy.

Originally I was planning on doing this on the final week of September, right after returning from Texas. I did not have a deadline (bad!), so things got posponed when difficulties arose. Being so used to work under pressure and deadlines, I think I just become lax about things when they come without that.

My New Year resolution then?
I did a long list of realistic deadlines for my ongoing projects. And I feel relieved and happy about that!

Pink Lobo’s dummy book should be ready to print on my birthday. Then I will put a bow around it and give it to the best suited person on earth to write an introductory text for this one – she does not know about it yet, so keep your finger’s crossed!!!