On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Dallman wrote: > The first is very simple. A majority of the pictures I take are portrait > format. But since the *istD doesn't have a tilt sensor, they come out as > landscape. This leaves me tediously loading, rotating and saving each one > individually. What I'd like is some way to select a bunch of images from a > thumbnail view and rotate them all in one operation. Windows XP Explorer > can actually do this, and doesn't seem to make a bad job of it at all, but > it destroys some of the embedded data that the *istD puts in the process, > and JPEGs get slightly larger. Any suggestions for something that > does a really good job?
I recently started using IMatch from photools (http://www.photools.com) and it does the rotating just fine. It also has great cataloging features and a script language which would probably let you do your thumbnailing. If you are comfortable with perl you might find my gallery generation script a good starting point for doing your thumbnail stuff. It generates webpages with thumbnails and reduced size images. http://www.phred.org/~alex/htmlthumbnail.pl is the script, http://www.phred.org/~alex/pictures/hiking/snow-10-5-03 is a page that it produced. It also takes template files that allow you to generate a lot of text around your images, making webpages like http://www.phred.org/~alex/pictures/bikes/commute alex
