flickr101 or another reason why I'm last on the bus

Don't get me wrong, I like flickr. I also like eating icing sugar out of the bag, but that isn't necessarily good for me.


As you can see to my left (or is that your left - I feel virtually confused) I've managed to plug in a few photosets from my flickr account. An account that has been languishing for the last year or so with little more than a handful of Dr Who audiobook covers on it because I wanted to showboat about them on a forum.

The reason I was doing this is that I love Doctor Who. I also love audiobooks. So of course, a couple of years ago when they started bringing out audiobooks of the original Target novels I was in fanboy heaven. They were even using the original Target covers - well most of the time anyways.

And therein lay the problem, sometimes they were using the cover from the first edition, sometimes the second. Also in the transition from book cover to audiobook cover, a few things were getting tweaked. Size, layout, font colours... Now most of the time this worked, but occasionally it didn't - and after a while it really began to bug me.

I'd be walking along listening to an audiobook on my iPod/iPhone, and every time I pulled the iGadget out to change something, there would be this cover I didn't quite like staring up at me.

So I decided to change it.

I scoured the net (although not too hard as I already had a good site in mind), got up the original artwork, used some existing covers to rough up a template in Photoshop and went to work. I don't know what it is but it was fun. The end result may not look too different to you but it makes all the difference in the world to my sad feeble little mind.

The only question is... should I be able to do it?

Conclusion - I just don't know.

And then there's Superman II...

Sigh.

Prof M