I’m a bit of a workflow junkie. I spend a lot of time exploring the options each image presents, and I don’t like the tools to get in the way.
This is why I wrote AutoLoader and the other productivity tools on this site: too much time was being wasted doing things better left to computers. Luckily, when I run into such situations, I can just write my own solution.
But I also don’t like to change the workflow methods I have in place mid-season…there’s just too much going on during the busy shooting season to be messing around with new stuff. So I save it for this time of year.
Keep reading for a taste of things to come.
First up: mice.
My old mouse kicked recently, and so I’ve decided to really give some of the new whiz-bang mice a try. I currently have 6 pointing devices hooked up to my Mac:
Clockwise from the bottom right, we have a Logitech Trackball Marble ($45), a Logitech MX 620 ($89), a Logitech MX Revolution ($129), a generic Logitech wireless POS I got with a keyboard combo ($dunno, maybe $30), a generic MS optical IntelliMouse ($30), and finally my workhorse, the Wacom 9×12 tablet, which all the mice are sitting on ($lots).
Over the next few weeks I’ll be using each one of these exclusively, trying to take advantage of all the features to determine which one I like the most.
…Mike