PhotoBlogging

June 6, 2004 7:48 AM

I find myself uploading pictures to my blog an awful lot, which means sampling, cropping, resaving, and then uploading. Is there a light program that can do all these things at once? ImageWell looks perfect, but it's Mac-only (I use Windows). What do you recommend?
posted by skryche to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Irfanview can do most of that, and it's pretty lightweight.
posted by riffola at 8:12 AM on June 6, 2004

Response by poster: Irfanview is, in fact, what I use right now. But its cropping UI is nowhere near as it could be. And, of course, it doesn't upload.
posted by skryche at 8:44 AM on June 6, 2004

Response by poster: Um.
"near as" should read "near as good as"
posted by skryche at 8:56 AM on June 6, 2004

Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 can also do everything you want except upload. I personally use it to manage my photos, and Irfanview as the default image viewer.
posted by riffola at 9:30 AM on June 6, 2004

have you looked into hello.com?
posted by Hackworth at 11:33 AM on June 6, 2004

If you are doing the same thing, over and over, why not look at making yourself a command script file (.bat) to do it? If so, ImageMagick and NcFTP are all you need, and they are both free.
posted by Gamecat at 5:09 PM on June 6, 2004

Cropping strikes me as the kind of thing one can't automate. Other than that, though, Macromedia's Fireworks includes the ability to do batch image processing -- change the size, change the file type, change the resolution, and do it over 1 file or 50.
posted by weston at 9:49 PM on June 6, 2004