Hiya,
Well, there may be a service that you can piggy-back onto through the
Eye-Fi wireless SD card: www.eye.fi/making-it-effortless
Cheers,
Luis.
On 21 Jan 2008, at 01:34, Sivakatirswami wrote:
We are beginning work on an in-house semi-industrial strength photo
processing tool, for remote correspondents for Hinduism Today and
Himalayan Academy Publications. The idea is to provide a
streamlined tool for photographers on location, without not too
much overhead... but enough bells and whistles to meet basic
production needs: A photographer should be able to download his
camera; quickly process all the photos in a given folder to 2-4
different specifications, run perhaps one or two simple filters- or
not-- (we will finally put Wilhelms cool filters to use), add
metadata the folders, zip and email them to us... It has to be
simple, fast and easy. e.g. in cases of large shoots we may want
him to ship us 300-400 thumbs for evaluation and then later we ask
for originals we choose for publication. Other scenarios will be
for slideshows where our blogs will want next day publication of
events happening on the other side of the world, but I need to get
all the 30-60 photos here, but they will get processed a second
time... another scenario will be to process the photos to spec on
location and these will go on-line with hours of receipt here. etc.
Much of which is all standard stuff and many of our revolutionaries
already way ahead in these areas... I'm interested in see if anyone
has done any work that they can share in the following areas:
1) Display of thumbnails of images in a folder in a "gallery" type
window where images can be moved around, reordered, renamed,
deleted etc. where the window, if resized. will scale the number of
row and columns of thumbnails automatically (the app needs to
scale nicely for a user on we 30 inch cinema display, and also run
sweetly on a 15 inch MacBook Pro.
Or if anyone has thoughts to the best way to tackle this. I
currently have hacked a little previewer where I assign the image
data to chars on a long line of 1000 chars and can shuffle these
around by cutting and pasting... you just put a row of
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and then assign image data to the chars
and viola you have a poor man's gallery where you can cut and paste
images around...and they wrap automatically inside a field... very
easy to code, but it's a bit buggy. For some reason, if I select
say ten photos and cut them and paste them to another location, I
don't always get the expected results, the image data for chars
4,5,6,7 which I cut and paste inbetween chars 12 and 13. is not
always swapped... I find char 5 somewhere I don't expect it to
be... but I'm not sure debugging that is going to be us what we want.
Other options which would be to have actual image objects in a
group that would dynamically move round as users dragged and
dropped them seems enormously complicated to code if one had to do
the geometry for this. But I suspect some wizard math person might
be able to come up with some general algorithm that could handle it...
2) Reading and writing "standards quality" binary EXIF-IPTC-XMP
data to JPG or TIF files from inside revolution.
I know it can be done... but it's tricky.
http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/
All the rest is "child's play" (Saving, rotating, copying new
files, renaming etc...all simple rev stuff...)
The above 2 aspects of the application present the most challenges
(well filters would have been also,
but thanks to Wilhelm we have those!)
If anyone is working in these areas, please share on list or email
me off list.
thanks!
Sivakatirswami
www.hinduismtoday.com
www.himalayanacademy.com
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