[XCSSA] Re: [SATLUG] Photo viewing/processing

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On Monday 11 September 2006 17:37, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I'm new to photo processing.  My wife just gave me a stack of CDs that
> have photos on them.  For instance, one CD has 123 .jpg file where the
> file is 1.6MB at a resolution of 2560x1920.
>
> I can view the picture with a browser. I can edit or scale the files
> with KDE's kview application.  What I can't do is see thumbnails the
> files so I can quickly pick out what I want.
>
> I'm looking for suggestions on how to see many thumbnails of photos in
> the same directory at once.

I use KDE's Konqueror for everything from photo thumbnailing, to 
color/rotation adjusting, and even sftping up to my photo web server.

To do this very efficiently...

1) Start up Konqueror and use it to copy your photos off your camera/CD to a 
writable media or dedicated dir in your home dir.  Make the Dir name 
meaningful, such as 2006-09_Wedding that will be nice for navigating on a CD 
or web server.  
(I'm doing the latter here)

2) Go into that dir with Konqueror and be sure that you're in "icon view" 
which will auto thumbnail them.  

3) For problem photos that need to be rotated or have 
brightness/gamma/contrast correction: middle click on the thumbnail and it 
will bring up the image in Kview separately.. Use PgUp and PgDown to navigate 
through all the photos in that dir within KView.  You can use "9" to rotate, 
"G" for Gamma, "B" for brightness, and "C" for contrast (Shift negates them).  
Then CTRL-S to save the ones you change back to the same dir without having 
to pull up any other apps.

4) After you get your pics rotated and touched up, while your still in your 
photo dir with Konqueror, it has a nice util (under tools) called "Create 
Image Gallery".  It does a really nice job of formatting them as a static web 
page with comments, thumbnails, comment text and tabulating like this:
	http://theweeks.org/rockets/2006-06_HCR-launch/

If you want to have narrated comments with each photo, then:
4a) Prep your photo comments file for KDE/Gallery by first creating a file 
slit by simply doing a "ls -1 DIRNAME > comments" in the dir above your pics 
DIRNAME...
4b) and then a "sed -i -e "s/$/:\n\n/g" comments" to format it for the gallery 
program.  
4c) Then just edit the comments file adding the captions or text for each 
photo.  

5) When you're all done, click on KDE's Tools/Gallery, and set up the end web 
page's desired colors, fonts, etc... and have it do it's thing

The output is fairly clean and I usually do a little post-creation 
customization to it.. and it's ready to upload to your web server, or throw 
back to CD for a nicer, narrated and cleaned up photo experience.

But wait.. to securely upload it to a web server:

6) Keeping your new photo directory window in Konqueror open, simply spawn 
another Konqueror tab (with CNTRL-T) and then open an sftp connection to your 
photo-webserver (using ssh/sftp's daemon on the target server) by pointing to 
the server like this:
	sftp://10.1.1.1

7) After you're logged in... flip back to your first photo dir tab 
(CTRL-SHIFT-Left), force a icon file view (if you're still viewing the stuff 
in HTML), 
-do a ALT-up to flip up one dir and use the arrows to highlight your photo dir
-then a CTRL-A (highlight all) CTRL-C (copy) 
-CRTL-SHIFT-RIGHT (move back to the second sftp tab) 
-CTRL-V (paste) 
and watch it upload your whole webified photo collection to your photo web 
server. 

I should have documented this ages ago.. Someone feel free to refine my tips.. 
or pop it into the group WiKi.. :)

Tweeks
p.s. I use Konqueror for everything but actually browsing.. ;)