Pictures from a recent Magpul Dynamics Pistol 1 & 2 course

[USMC03]

Thanks to FromMyColdDeadHand for helping me with pics over this last series of classes (both running his camera and post processing pics ... it's a lot of work). I greatly appriciate all the time and effort, Brother!

Photos courtesy of FromMyColdDeadHand (please don't steal his pics)

[Byte Stryke]

Nice Pics. Thanks for the Share.

If CDH is going to keeep contributing Pics we should get him a cool mark like your USCM03.

just a thought

[Hoosier]

Nice Donnie Darko targets

H.

[USMC03]

Nice Pics. Thanks for the Share.

If CDH is going to keeep contributing Pics we should get him a cool mark like your USCM03.

just a thought

Post processing, editing, cropping, etc. takes a ton of time and is very labor intensive. Adding the watermark to the pic about doubles the time it takes to post process a picture.

The only reason I started doing it is because I have a huge problem with picture theft. I wouldn't even hastle with it if I didn't have problem with people stealing my pics.

[Hoosier]

Post processing, editing, cropping, etc. takes a ton of time and is very labor intensive. Adding the watermark to the pic about doubles the time it takes to post process a picture.

The only reason I started doing it is because I have a huge problem with picture theft. I wouldn't even hastle with it if I didn't have problem with people stealing my pics.

You know how to setup photoshop macros, right? You should be able to bulk open, process, and save from the macros.

There is also software that will watermark images for you. Or if you're handy with code you can roll your own sw to do it.

In short, if you're doing something repetitive on a computer, you're doing it wrong

H.

[USMC03]

Everything I do on a computer is repetative and very time consuming.

I have Photoshop elements 7.



I'm not a computer guy. Electronics give me a headache. If you've got advise, I'm all ears ... just don't use big words ... I'm one of those guys that will fit the square block in the round hole

[Justin]

Jeff,

If you download and use the image software Google gives away for use with a Picasa photo account, you can add watermarks without much trouble.

http://picasa.google.com/

[Hoosier]

Everything I do on a computer is repetative and very time consuming.

I have Photoshop elements 7.

Here's a video explaining "Actions" aka macros. The short version is, you load up a sample picture, hit the Record button, then resize, auto adjust levels, add a watermark, and save the image using the desired settings (leave the filename blank, save it in a new directory) and then hit stop recording on the action. You can assign a hot key to actions, so I always assign F2 to whatever temporary task I'm doing. Once that's done, load another image, hit F2, make sure it does what you want. If it does, then you can load large batches of the images and just process each with a single keystroke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SluBrFdA4kw

Or google for Batch Image Processing software like the Picassa stuff that was also mentioned.

And remember, anytime you're doing something repetitive on a computer, there's a way to automate the boring bits.

H.

[Byte Stryke]

Post processing, editing, cropping, etc. takes a ton of time and is very labor intensive. Adding the watermark to the pic about doubles the time it takes to post process a picture.

The only reason I started doing it is because I have a huge problem with picture theft. I wouldn't even hastle with it if I didn't have problem with people stealing my pics.

really, it was only a suggestion.

[USMC03]

really, it was only a suggestion.

No worries Brother. I was just explaining how much time and effort goes into post processing pics. Many guys don't understand how labor intensive post processing pics are.