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Wed, 23 Aug 2006

Photo managing

I moved a bunch of photos from my laptop (running Windows XP) to my desktop (running Ubuntu 06.06) and then slurped a bunch of photos from Shutterfly (using a painfully monotonous and guified method) only to discover that the photos I slurped from Shutterfly don't have timestamps of when the photo was taken in the EXIF headers. That's what I get for slurping.

I've never really used F-Spot much but I know the version number is at 0.1.11 or something like that so I figured it'd be pretty bereft of helpful features. Much to my surprise, I discovered that I can adjust the timestamp on each photo. Not only that, but I can select a bunch of photos and adjust the timestamp on all of them at the same time.

I spend the next few hours fiddling with photos and getting them into a decent state with descriptions and all that and then export them to a folder.

There isn't much of a thesis statement to this blog entry. For the most part this entry is a long-winded explanation for how happy I was to discover I can fix the timestamps on a bunch of photos at the same time using a piece of software that says it's version 0.1.11.

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Posted by pj on Wed Aug 23 22:12:47 2006
you should check out singleshot


Posted by will on Wed Aug 23 23:09:08 2006
Mmm...  looks like another web-based photo album gallery thing.  I've been using curator which looks more malleable and does the same sorts of things.

I'd ask why you think I should check it out, but you didn't leave any contact information.

/will


Posted by pj on Tue Sep 12 17:22:45 2006
I like it because:
* python, so hackable
* templatable, for custom looks
* demand-generated, so thumbnails and other image filters are applied only when first asked for and the results are then cached in such a way that the 2nd time the request doesn't even go through the script


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