For the last two weeks I was working at Progressive Lighting. They needed some extra graphic help. They had some looming deadlines and they prayed that they didn’t look for help too late.

Some of the issues to be addressed:

• Multiple catalogs
• Filming a commercial on site
• Updating their catalog
• Website changes
• mini sales promotions

I got there and their file system was confusing. I was working in InDesign mostly working to make a LOT of catalog pages. Not easy. There is a LOT of work behind it. Their image files and how they are organized was really the thing that was dragging me behind.

Now I am an outsider- to someone that was familiar with their products- they may have been a lot faster. But that was a “Might” not really a “definitely.” We were looking at some options on using Photoshop actions that will help us re organize and resize the database of images in the catalog and re purpose it for the website. I made a solution that would work for about 90% of their images. Now we need to make sure we can fish out those out of proportion images.

I was auditioned by Product Development for my writing ability. I hope I can help them out as well. I was basically writing love letters to different light fixtures. An interesting exercise in creativity.