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| McMurtry Art and Art History Building (to open, fall 2015), Stanford University |
The McMurtry Building is being built on the edge of the Rodin Sculpture Garden. I have been watching and photographing the progress: scrape the abandoned anatomy labs, dig basements and raise the building.
Most of my pictures of the progress have been taken with an iPhone6 because that is the camera I carry on a regular basis. I could process the photos with the iPhone App, but iPhone images can also be edited in Photoshop CC and Adobe Photoshop Raw.
The museum curators have taken the wraps off sculptures near the fence so it is now possible to capture the building and one of Rodin's bronze heads in a photo.
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| Agony in Rodin’s Garden, iPhone6 photo |
The workflow for this project was:
- Import the photo from the iPhone to the desktop using Image Capture
- In Adobe Bridge, open the desktop folder and select the image (note that the image resolution is 72 dpi)
- Open the image in camera raw and do global edits using the Basic Panel and tools
- Make sure the workflow resolution is set to 300 dpi (needed for printing)
- Click Open Image to bring the image into Photoshop CC, for pixel level editing
- Note: If cropping in done make sure that the Image/Image Size/Resample box is unchecked and (while you’re there) verify that the image resolution is 300 dpi.
- Open the file menu and click Save for Web to bring up the save menu, and set the Image Size so that the longest edge is either 800 or 1024 pixels, and set the image quality to 80 or 100%
- Click Save to write the converted image to the desktop.
- Save the image as a Tiff file after deleting non-visible layers. The Tiff file will be used to print the photo.
These images are ready for blog posting and the Tiff files are ready for printing, but that is next week.
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