Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Well, I’ve done it. All the images are tagged, rated, captioned, and ready for export. What a mess. For the (probably nobody) listening, this has been an immense effort, and I’m glad I don’t have to do it ever again. The topic of creating books or web pages for these images is a whole other study, but I don’t think it needs to be documented here. I’m planning to make books, and I think I’ll just let the built-in Aperture layout things go for it, as they do all the metadata placement for me, and WHCC’s layout stuff is designed around picture books. What I’m doing is much more a journal than a picture book, so let’s hope Apple’s subcontracted print house is up to it. Just the 4 and 5 star prints amount to 2363 images, which could be an insane number of books ultimately. At 4 per page, I’d still be looking at $500. So I’ve got some decisions to make about what, how, and when. We’ll see what happens. But now I can find those pictures of each of us for smaller chapters if I so choose.