Final Steps

Today I met Berkshire Athenaeum Director, Ron Latham, at Pasko Frame and Gift Center on North Street in Pittsfield to select the perfect mat and frame treatment for the painting. It should be completed within about 2 weeks. And since I work part time at Pasko's, I'm guessing that I'll also do the framing!

Soon I will be removing the digital frame and various other remnants of the project from the library. I have to say that it was a wonderful experience for me, and I hope others enjoyed it as well.

Painting is Assembled

On Thursday, May 28, I brought my laptop to the library with the files of the scanned image. I use an older version of Photoshop (CS2) which doesn't have the feature that assembles the image pieces automatically, so, I was doing it manually, as I have done with all my other paintings. This was especially difficult trying to morph the 10 different files and I was not having fun. But the upgrades to Photoshop are pretty pricey so I did not see an alternative.

In the midst of this exercise, I was visited by Ann-Marie Harris, a library employee who is involved with some of the technical responsibilities and was interested in seeing this done manually. And she told me something that will save me hours of time in the future and I will be forever grateful.

There is a product also made by Adobe called Elements. It is a very scaled down version of Photoshop at about 1/10 the price; it uses the same files and the latest version of Elements does have this morphing feature, called Panorama Merge. I ordered it that afternoon, had it the next day and the painting was reassembled by Friday night, looking much better than I could ever have done by hand.

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!