Portfolio Printage
Posted: Sat 19 November, 2005 Filed under: Photography, Resolutions 3 Comments »Arse. Remember that post about resolutions? Where I said “I’ve got the portfolio itself, but not done anything with it yet. I’ve also recently found another way of doing it that I haven’t yet experimented with – but I intend to do so before the year’s out.“?
Well, I just tried it out – and failed.
I was quite optimistic when I saw Qoop‘s page, which supposedly made it easy to print a photo-book from your Flickr photos. And yes, in many ways it does make it easy – you can simply select a bundle of photos (either entire sets, or individual frames) to be printed.
But – and, in the context of printing a portfolio-type book this is a bit of a big issue – you can’t organise how they’re going to be laid out. It seems to work from an alphabetical point of view, that the photos are done in order of the alphabetical names of the sets. So really it’s more hassle than it’s worth to come up with something viable.
I’ll keep on looking around, because I do like the idea of a printed book as an alternative method of portfolioing (is that a word?), but I’m also going to have to work on completing that proper ‘folio now as well.
Still, it was worth a try.
I only have 1 picture in flickr so I can’t test it but can you not re-order your photos in flickr and then qoop them?
Yes, daisy, I could go through, make up a new set just called “portfolio”, add in the pics I wanted, make sure they’re named alphabetically so that qoop puts them in in the correct order, and then go through the order and dispatch process.
I may still do so.
But it’s a functionality that I’d hoped/expected would be there, and it wasn’t, so it’s just more work to do it all.
I know, poor, poor me. *grin*
D4D et al:
Thanks for checking out QOOP. Right now the only option for the ordering of photos in your books is in the way they were uploaded from Flickr, so that means the way the photos were ordered in your sets, etc. You can, in Flickr, edit the order of your set to be uploaded. We realize this doesn’t provide much flexibility and additional layout options are in the works. We had to start somewhere and we opted for efficiency and convenience first. Both cover and page layouts will have greater design possibilities very soon.
We hope you’ll check us out again!
Hugh
QOOP