Well I'm still trying to sort out my USA photos. The first hurdle was to rename them all to have a date/timestamp in the file name. Finally got that working with a relatively simple php script.
The next task was to rotate them and resize them. But the issue then became which do I do first. If I rotated them and then resized them, I'd end up with larger than normal vertical shots because the PIXresizer tool I found doesn't differentiate between landscape and portrait pictures when it's resizing, so it makes 1024 the horizontal dimension no matter how the picture is oriented. I suppose I could have looked for another resizing tool, but this one was free and easy. If I resized them all first and then rotated them, I'd have to find and rotate the images three times - one at full size for archiving, one at medium size for the web, and a thumbnail. Definitely too hard.
So I decided to rotate then resize. But then what I did was to find all the rotated ones and copy them to another folder, so I could do a batch resize of those separately and overwrite the big images. So far so good.
But I still also need to go through the list of the images that didn't get resized at all in the first pass, because they were 1024x768 or smaller to begin with. That and have to create 42 day folders and then split the images back into day folders from one big folder..
May not get the pics uploaded tonight after all :/
CC
Ouch! What a headache that task sounds like! My head's beginning to hurt just reading all that!
Dennis
Sounds like a pain. I always use Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to do batch operations on my stuff. Of course, I never have over a hundred at a time and I'm sure you're sorting thousands...
My camera is ancient�it doesn't auto sense portrait and landscapes, so everything is the same size until I manually pick out the ones I want to rotate and separate them out manually. That alone is reason enough for me not to take more than a handful of photos at once. ;-)
Dave2
My Mac came with a wonderful program called "iPhoto" which makes cataloging, rotating, cropping, adjusting, and deleting very easy. I've got close to 6000 photos, all cataloged and sorted into albums and it takes no time at all to manage. Perhaps there is something similar for Windows?
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/