Steve's workshop - Painting the outside walls

[n0legs]

Head down arse up get the grouting/jointing done. Get the building signed off. Relieve the stress, start the enjoyment.

Nice job on the shutters by the way

 

[Steve Maskery]

Steve, regarding the 'photos - not sure if you're on a Mac or PC, but if on a Mac there's a little App called Resize sense which can do batch resizing. Presets can be set up for both the size, naming and locations.

As for the white balance and exposure you can achieve similar results by creating actions in Photoshop.
According to a photographer I know it's possible to create an action for exposure control, white balance, contrast etc all based on RELATIVE settings so you don't need to worry about an individual photo being wildly different.

I'm sure that there's loads of info online - but then you may already know all of this.

Ah, thanks, I'll take a look. I have both Mac and PC. My Mac is a glorified email and web browser, I use Paint Shop Pro on my venerable2004 PC for anything fancy, but the normal editing is done in Preview on the Mac.

 

[sploo]

Steve, regarding the 'photos - not sure if you're on a Mac or PC, but if on a Mac there's a little App called Resize sense which can do batch resizing. Presets can be set up for both the size, naming and locations.

As for the white balance and exposure you can achieve similar results by creating actions in Photoshop.
According to a photographer I know it's possible to create an action for exposure control, white balance, contrast etc all based on RELATIVE settings so you don't need to worry about an individual photo being wildly different.

I'm sure that there's loads of info online - but then you may already know all of this.

Ah, thanks, I'll take a look. I have both Mac and PC. My Mac is a glorified email and web browser, I use Paint Shop Pro on my venerable2004 PC for anything fancy, but the normal editing is done in Preview on the Mac.

Steve, once you've got the shutters set up you'll obviously have very consistent light in the workshop. From there it'd probably make sense to set the camera up with a manual exposure; that way every shot is consistent.

If you can shoot raw (and import into something like Lightroom) you'll find it's really easy to sort through images and you also get plenty of latitude for adjustments. White balance becomes a non issue because it's just processing that happens with a JPEG; if you have the raw it's just metadata and you could change it to anything you want (obviously in a consistent lighting environment with manual settings you'll probably find that every shot would want the same white balance - and it's easy to copy/paste adjustments from one image to another in LR).

You can also set up export rules in Lightroom to dump out selected photos at a particular resolution for posting to the web.

 

[yetloh]

I too am a big fan of Lightroom. It started out as a tool for organising photographs with a processing package added but now the processing side haas become much more sophisticated so it is an excellent all round tool. The Smart Collections function is brilliant and makes having separate daily folders completely unnecesaary.

Jim

 

[sploo]

I too am a big fan of Lightroom. It started out as a tool for organising photographs with a processing package added but now the processing side haas become much more sophisticated so it is an excellent all round tool. The Smart Collections function is brilliant and makes having separate daily folders completely unnecesaary.

Jim

Agreed. It's relatively rare I need to jump to Photoshop for an edit these days.

For a series of images from a single shoot I like the fact you can copy/paste the colour/tone/brightness edits from one image to all others (then export); so it's really easy to prepare a set of images for posting. It's what I do on my build threads, which is pretty similar to what Steve's doing here.

 

[Racers]

I mostly use Nikons NX-D one because Nikons and two because it's free!
I occasionally use photoshop but not that often.

Pete

 

[Steve Maskery]

A couple of days ago I discovered that my land line wasn't working. I don't use it much, so I've no idea how long it's been like that. As I waited in for the engineer this morning, my water went off too! Fortunately both were restored pretty quickly. The phone was a faulty connection in the green box over the road and I have no idea what the water was about, there were no workmen in the street as far as I could see.

So once the phone was fixed I went down to the workshop.

I've not replaced the blades in my P/T since I got it back and they are decidedly in need of some TLC. I'd sent them off on Monday and today I decided to fit a new set. These are a bit wider than the originals, not by much but enough for them to be unable to sit far enough down. It's my own fault I swapped the original springs for some home-made ones many years ago, I can't remember why but there was a good reason, but now the new ones don't compress quite enough to accommodate these wider knives.

I have a little jar of springs. They are mainly from handwash bottles, but they were all too big. So I cannibalised a couple of ball-point pens and it worked fine. Took me forever though.

Then I turned my attention to that shutter.

The problem is twofold. the LH trim leans slightly to the left, and the RH trim leans slightly to the right. The result is a noticeably bigger gap at the top than at the bottom. So I cut through the caulk with a multi-tool

and removed the trim

Fortunately it came off easily enough without damage, so I was able to re-use it. I didn't replace the RH one, it wasn't as far out. So I painted the turn-buttons and whilst the paint was drying I fitted the last shutter

I think it looks rather good.

 

[Zeddedhed]

Beautiful. can we see a paisley pattern version too please.

Not sure why but pink looks happy and yellow looks sad. Any colour theorists here that can explain this. Of course it could be a bit of wobble in photoshop....

 

[Steve Maskery]

Of course it could be a bit of wobble in photoshop....

Darn, and I would have got away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those pesky kids.

 

[Jamesc]

Ahhh someone else who was brought up on Scooby Doo - excellent

 

[Eric The Viking]

It's ingrained in our household too, usually when asked to do the washing up for the second time. ;-)

Steve, you don't think orange and pink would deter burglars, much like playing Handel in shopping centres to deter kids from hanging about?

If I was a felonious non-monk and saw that pink, yellow/orange and blue combination I'd scarperdoublequicktime, in case I found out what the owner had actually got inside...

... I think you ought to try it and see.

E.

 

[Zeddedhed]

Steve's Gimp shed .....?

 

[n0legs]

Steve's Gimp shed .....?

The gimp's sleeping :lol:

 

[Halo Jones]

Steve - why is the top of the entry door on the right hand side not in line with everything else? Design oversite?

 

[monkeybiter]

Steve - why is the top of the entry door on the right hand side not in line with everything else? Design oversite?

It's people like wot cause unrest!

That'll do his head in now, especially if it hadn't been noticed.

Perhaps it could be aesthetically addressed with an aligned sign above the door; 'Essential Workshop' or 'Steve's Den' etc.

 

[Halo Jones]

Sorry

It was only when all the shutters were in place that I noticed it... If I recall from the distant past of this thread windows were not originally planned, so that it is probably it.

I'll get my coat. :-#

 

[Steve Maskery]

If I had had everything all in line the double doors would have been very low for their width. I did think of running the trim all the way across, with a sign in the space above "Sanctum sanctorum" or suchlike but I'm happy with it as it is.
Well I was, until now.

 

[sploo]

If I had had everything all in line the double doors would have been very low for their width. I did think of running the trim all the way across, with a sign in the space above "Sanctum sanctorum" or suchlike but I'm happy with it as it is.
Well I was, until now.

I would've thought a sign saying "Ebola Research Laboratory" would have more success in warding off the local scrotes :mrgreen:

 

[blackrodd]

I would've thought a sign saying "Ebola Research Laboratory" would have more success in warding off the local scrotes :mrgreen:[/quote]

Those that could read wouldn't know what it was!
Rodders

 

[sploo]

Those that could read wouldn't know what it was!
Rodders

Good point. Perhaps "Job Centre" would be more scary :wink: