Comments on: PhotoBlogging

Question: PhotoBlogging

skryche — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 07:48:58 -0800

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?

By: riffola

riffola — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 08:12:11 -0800

Irfanview can do most of that, and it's pretty lightweight.

By: skryche

skryche — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 08:44:50 -0800

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.

By: skryche

skryche — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 08:56:05 -0800

Um.
"near as" should read "near as good as"

By: riffola

riffola — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:30:14 -0800

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.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:33:58 -0800

have you looked into hello.com?

By: Gamecat

Gamecat — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:09:22 -0800

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.

By: weston

weston — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 21:49:07 -0800

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.