Entries for February 2008

In my travels it's been my experience that people are creatures of habit, even if it's a bad habit. There is one pesky habit that most people are guilty of and that I am going to squash like that spider that's been living in your bathtub for the last 6 months and that you refuse to get rid of. The perpetrator in question

If you've ever saved an image as a JPEG, and being a photographer in the digital age chances are you're familiar with JPEGs, you've no doubt seen the option to save your JPEG as Progressive. Resist the temptation.

So you renamed all your files with a sequence number, and uploaded them to a gallery... but they are not displaying in the order you want them to... why is that?

Computers look at numbers differently than we do - they see only the first digit and use that to sort by first, then they sort by the next digit and so on. So when a computer sees the following numbers:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14