Batch resizing strategy for Image Archives

Taking a closer look at Photoshop CS2 recently was a big surprise to me.
I hadn’t realized how many things had changed, since I was working still on Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10.
As it turned out allso the default image sizes for the experimental blog where wrong, sinze the layout breaks (In Explorer the whole side column will just float below the main content.)
The 400px defaults that where batch resized could not be used, to be included in any article.
Besides that , I didn’t want to implement any pure image galleries anyway.
For the moment I figured out the following strategy:

Batch resizing method step 1

  1. Created 5 different batch Actions and their corresponding droplets
  2. Created 5 different source Folders
  3. Created 2 destination Folders
  4. For the moment then browse through all the raw files and select/drop each instance in the appropriate folders, which are:
    1. normal upright portraits
    2. normal upright landscapes
    3. Counter clock wise portraits
    4. clock wise portraits
    5. The last folder for special category images, that are not used in articles
  5. the ratio calculated for the first 4 instances calculated (reasonably safe),is 150/200px

Step2

Get Automator at some point to use these folders, and create a new Image category folder inside the destination folder with the generated results, open transmit and upload them to the Server.

Thumbnail creation

The thumbnail creation is preconfigured and automatically handled from the backend , once someone opens the image tab.

I think that looks reasonable, since there is obviously no way to automatically detect if a Image is turned clockwise or counterclockwise, or have I missed something?

A recent attempt to save my photo archives lead to a painfull verification.Many of them that had been burned on CD’s and stored in a CD Caddy are destroyed.(Broken jpg files)
My advice is: Don’t rely on CD’s alone for archiving your image galleries, much better would have been, to store them on a file server, or at least to put them online.
Oh, what a pain it is , allso to retrieve images from dozens of CD’s, espesially when you have stored more than a thousand images on them.

Posted ·2006-04-19 · by · marios ·

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