Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app

[Luis]

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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