Wednesday 4/20/16

Today was our biggest day of progress by far. After my English class ended at 1:10 I immediately drove to James's house to work on the project. When I arrived he had already printed out a thumbnail sized picture of each image. We used these to organize the book by laying them out on a table and pairing them up on their respective pages. Since we last decided the order of the images for the book some things had been moved around so we had to rework a large section of our pairing process. Once this was done I downloaded the final versions of the photos I had been editing at school and we downloaded all the photos to the book publishing software. We decided to use My Publisher to make our book because according to our research, they have the best print quality. The problem is that the My Publisher software is utterly horrible. This drove James insane because he was in charge of ordering the book an therefore he was the one working the computer. There is no easy way to position each photo on the page like there is in say, powerpoint. The image doesn't lock into place like it should so there is no way to figure out if the some of the image is being slightly cut off by the side of the page and also no way to know if the images is even centered on the page. On top of all this, the pages are a different shape than the pictures so we if we wanted the image to take up the whole page then we had to crop it. We cropped the pictures that looked good cropped and we left the others as they were. And then the program started to crash. The first time this happened a sheer wave of panic washed over us as we sat silently praying that our progress was not lost, thankfully it was not. It ended up crashing a few more times which took up a ton of time. Once we were finished uploading photos I came up with a title: From Shore to Summit, Uncovering the Beauty of the Peach State. I had to leave James's house at 5:30 because I had a Astrophysics field trip to so see Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Fox Theatre. While at the show I texted with James as he sent me font suggestions for the book and options for page numbers. He also texted me every time the program crashed, which was amusing. By the end of the night we almost finished with the book.