CMYK color. I’m not good at using it yet. I’ve been trying to get my banquet image set up so I can get some actual prints made of it at my local photo shop. I figured that converting the image to CMYK mode would make sure the colors turned out correctly, because it would give me a chance to correct any gamut issues first. Right? Yay. Except wrong. Because I got them back and they suck. The white areas are green. My face is the same color as the flowers in Rachel’s hair. Not to mention that the image was cropped so that all the text was missing. I am upset.
After talking about it with RukuArtic, we thought that it might have to do with their software not being able to handle the CMYK format. New plan: RBG image, convert to CMYK, convert back to RBG. That’ll give me an RBG image with all CMYK-compatible colors. And I’ll tell the guy to leave the 0.333 inch white border. Which means I have to go back to them and get them to fix it without making me pay again.
Work is dumb. There was this woman who came through and bought over $400 worth of food. After scanning her BonusCard, she saved about $50. Staring at the screen, she said something about how “that sure didn’t look right” and how “it usually takes off more than that.” Well you know stupid, it’s not magic. You kind of have to buy the sale items to receive savings. That’s why it’s called “shopping”, not just “throwing items from the shelves into your cart”.
I got to see Rachel this weekend too. Heehee. Just thinking about Rachel makes me smile in spite of myself. Of course we had a grand time together. The next time she comes over I’m going to plan ahead though, so that we don’t realize after the fact that we forgot to do something or go somewhere.
I was stupid with work too, because I forgot to request off for something I’m supposed to be doing this weekend even though I knew about it months in advance. Naturally I can’t find anybody to work for me during that time, so I’m not sure what to do now. The manager isn’t going to be happy with me when I tell him, which is why I was trying to find a sub beforehand. Mom’s opinion is, “well, you forgot, so you have to take the consequences and miss out.” So encouraging. I’d rather take the consequences at work, because they really should get over it. There have been many times when they’ve called me in a pinch and I’ve headed over there to help them out. Still it was my fault and I’m very frustrated with myself for it.
Rachel’s away for a few days. I miss her. Yes, I’m pining for my girl. I have a cool idea for a picture to work on while she’s gone. Dunno how it’ll turn out though; I’ll have to try my hand at creating custom brushes and stuff. If I can pull it off it’d be interesting, not to mention a good learning experience.
Check out all the vacation photographs. Although everybody probably doesn’t care anymore, just like all the non-readers of this journal. Whee. But I love Rachel, and Rachel loves me, and that’s worth smiling about.