New works added

I added an old Surreal Self Portrait that somehow never made it on to the site, as well as a new City Spirit photo (the Spirit of Milwaukee).

I’m having some severe issues with the newly implemented watermarking system. In order for it to work with the ecommerce plugins, I have to set all the albums so that the “full size” version does not get watermarked, and is never shown. Apparently, there is a “resized to 100%” option, but at that point the entire thing seems to break. Add to this that about a third of my images have been watermarked by hand directly onto the image, and things just go crazy.

I removed the “number of views” and rating system since I felt that they were taking up too much visual space — they kept the audience from focusing on the images themselves. With the addition of watermarks, the visual clutter was just way too much. I think the easiest thing for me to do would be to just re-upload every single image, now that I have the parameters set the way they need to be. But that is one of those projects that takes up way too much time, especially since it’s only to soothe my perfectionist obsessions. The cost/benefit just isn’t there.

This is another one of those cases where having Minions would be really helpful. Even a Lackey could do this job, really.

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