At 4:44 PM -0500 12/22/08, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:
As for a Photoshop action ... given the variety of formats and extra info that
arrives with many contributions trying to automate the production of
each week's
installment seems not possible. However, elves are ready to listen!
You should have no difficulty creating an action in Photoshop to
resize all the images to a uniform size for the forum. I can email
you two actions to resize to 4x6x96dpi or 6x4x96dpi if you can't
figure out how. But recording actions to make work more efficient it
so important a skill that every student using Photoshop should be
able to do it in their sleep. And Aperture, Elements, Lightroom and
probably most of the others I've never tried, allow some sort of bulk
resizing as well.
If, and this is a big if, the caption info is embedded in the file,
that info would remain in the file when resized. It would then be
there to display in the gallery routine, if the gallery routine pulls
that info from the image file to assemble the thumbnail page.
Again, if your students are not learning to embed File Info into
every file they regard as a keeper, they need to be taught, and
hounded until they do it routinely. It is an essential part of
professionalism in photography now.
Now to generating the gallery - that's probably the biggest problem.
Does the gallery app extract info from the email - like the contact
info, and the footer stuff you put on each individual image?
Presumably it creates the thumbnails? Places the photographer's name
at the top of the large version page? Adjusts the links so they work
the way we've come to expect?
If not, it's time for a geek. A half capable html geek should be
able to create a simple application that would locate all the info
from the emails and put it in the places you want. Then all you'd
have to do is dump the emails on the student who then uses the little
app to assemble the gallery.
But I realize this is the tricky part.
--
Emily L. Ferguson
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New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
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