Photography Training Tuesday – Photography Lighting Techniques, hhschools Updates
Today’s Training Tuesday blog includes the following information:
- hhschools Updates
- Using Light Meters
Open hhschools today and update to the most recent version to take advantage of all the improvements and new features for the fall’s school picture season.
Service Items for the Admin CDs
Just in time to take care of your schools’ administrative software needs. You’ll find the selection of the export to be much cleaner with the most common exports listed together and the rest of them tucked neatly away under the Show All option. Currently there are 207
to choose from.
Easy way to update all the package groups from the master package
- Located in the manage package dialog
- Select a package group to edit and an update button will run a comparison of the particular package group you want to update to with the same package groups that are associated to active projects
- Review a report that will display the differences, if any, with the package groups that are associated to the active projects
- See which package groups match (and which ones don’t) that you can auto update with the changes you need to make
- Explains in simple detail how to update the package groups
that don’t match
Template Mapping Report
- Gives you the template name and what has been mapped to the text fields
- Provides easy way to verify your personalization for all templates
Project Summary
- easier to read
- greater flexibility for your needs
- updated design with 6 map-able text lines for greater flexibility
- student ID can be displayed in a human readable font
Crop warning to include the products that can’t apply a default center crop from an 8×10 aspect ratio
These products are:
Buttons, Dog Tags, Photo Magnet Bottle Cap Jewelry, Photo Magnet Only for Bottle Cap Jewelry, Mother of Pearl Necklace, Individual Deluxe Keychain w/photo, Individual 3×3 magnet with text, Individual 3×3 magnet without text, Individual 3×3 mirror with text & the Individual 3×3 mirror with text
The purpose of this crop warning is to prevent costly remakes for missing these special templates and, of course, the loss of time in delivering the packages to your school.
Along with the above improvements, we have addressed issues such as:
- Camera card report only printing those subjects not pictured
- Validation of green screen backgrounds to only validate the
subjects in the order - Mistake-proofed the selection of options on the Import Wizard
- Added the Rank Field
For training videos related to hhschools, please click the link here
To download hhschools update, please click here
Learning How to Use a Light Meter
As professional photographers, we all know how important proper lighting is. Bentley Skeie, our digital guy, found the Sekonic website. Sekonic gives some great tips and has numerous blogs and videos on how to handle different lighting situations. Check out this video feature on light metering for food photography:
Spend some time exploring this site!
