Why do they have to make it so damned difficult?

Yes, I know that 123Cheese is gone, defunk, vanished into the bitstream.  That isn't the difficultly.

The difficulty is this: Photobookshop dot com dot au, Photobookclub dot com dot au, and The Designer all use the same program. Same layouts, same menus, same EVERYTHING... BUT, they can't read each other's finished products (and two of them are different branches of same freaking company!) due to encryption. Really, guys? Do you really think there is a black market in trading photobook formats?

So, how do I fix the problem of getting my 123Cheese photobook into any of the other.  The slow, tedious, repetitive open each of the pages in 123Cheese, screencap the windows, save as jpgs. THEN 'rebuild' the books in one of the other programs.

Doesn't that sound like fun?  (voice heavily dripping with sarcasm)

I got one 100 page book done, but need to take a break.

Le sigh

Well, the book with my first photo published by international, worldwide publication arrived today. Yay.

Too bad it has a really crappy caption on it. They changed it and even Alan said the new one sucked. Oh well, at least I can honestly say "I've been published." heh

This was my original with my caption:



They recaptioned it with:

"Whoah! I have to admit- that is DEFINITELY a huge spider! Okay, okay, calm down now...and bring me your shotgun."

So, yay for published phone. Boo Hiss for bleh recaptioning.

But at least I do have a photo credit in the book, with link to my photo site. So, silver lining! :D