zeiss
10th of April 2003 (Thu), 22:59
So I'm not a real photographer. I'm a college kid with a digital camera who has always been interested in photography, and hopefully will learn some skills as I go. I'm already amazed with your work Pekka. I'm also very interested in application design, and computational optimization/automation.
Anyway, I think there are a lot of other users like me, who are interested in digitally archiving amateur photos of family and vacations and sunsets, to start with. That's not to say that EE should cater to my ilk, but this is a forum for ideas and discussion, so I'll continue. Even if people are pros, they likely discover EE after already building up their own collection without EE, which I'm guessing is usually organized with folders.
I wonder if there is some way to automate converting a directory structure to a database structure. I have a "digital pictures" folder with about 50 subfolders, each some day's photo foray. It would be cool if I could choose some button in EE, select my main directory, and have EE create 50 exhibitions, each titled with the folder name, and each photo grabbing the time/date stamp from the OS. Then the user could use his PS action to create thumbs and micros, and everything would be set up. I could then go through and comment the pictures. As it is now, I'll have to create the 50 exhibits myself all by hand, and since I've only had my camera six months, I'm guessing that others may have 100s or 1000s.
While I'm rambling, somewhat relatedly, I wonder if I am understanding the path editor correctly, and if that too can be automated. If I want to store my photos in exhibition folders, can EE use the exhibition name as a variable? i.e., /gallery//thumbs/ or do I have to enter 50 different paths into the size path editor? Alternatively I can group all images into /gallery/thumbs, etc, which makes the EE work easier and shorter, but is less ideal conceptually, at least to me. It seems that the mind should limit the software, not vice versa.
Okay, I'll stop for now. I'm a well-spring of comments and questions :-) For all I know this is already part of the program and in my entire 24 hours of using it, I've simply missed it.
Z
Anyway, I think there are a lot of other users like me, who are interested in digitally archiving amateur photos of family and vacations and sunsets, to start with. That's not to say that EE should cater to my ilk, but this is a forum for ideas and discussion, so I'll continue. Even if people are pros, they likely discover EE after already building up their own collection without EE, which I'm guessing is usually organized with folders.
I wonder if there is some way to automate converting a directory structure to a database structure. I have a "digital pictures" folder with about 50 subfolders, each some day's photo foray. It would be cool if I could choose some button in EE, select my main directory, and have EE create 50 exhibitions, each titled with the folder name, and each photo grabbing the time/date stamp from the OS. Then the user could use his PS action to create thumbs and micros, and everything would be set up. I could then go through and comment the pictures. As it is now, I'll have to create the 50 exhibits myself all by hand, and since I've only had my camera six months, I'm guessing that others may have 100s or 1000s.
While I'm rambling, somewhat relatedly, I wonder if I am understanding the path editor correctly, and if that too can be automated. If I want to store my photos in exhibition folders, can EE use the exhibition name as a variable? i.e., /gallery//thumbs/ or do I have to enter 50 different paths into the size path editor? Alternatively I can group all images into /gallery/thumbs, etc, which makes the EE work easier and shorter, but is less ideal conceptually, at least to me. It seems that the mind should limit the software, not vice versa.
Okay, I'll stop for now. I'm a well-spring of comments and questions :-) For all I know this is already part of the program and in my entire 24 hours of using it, I've simply missed it.
Z