Digital image management strategy
I've been doing a bunch of reading and testing and dinking around with image management ideas. I think I've finally settled on a reasonable management plan:
1. Picasa desktop client to perform local tasks like EXIF tag management, inventory, and basic editing needs. The GeoSetter application does a nice job of managing geotagging in a Flickr compatible location format. The goal here is to have all of these images' tags stored locally in my own inventory, instead of that information only existing on Flickr. If you define the information properly on the desktop, it automatically gets picked up and displayed when you upload to Flickr, so there's no duplication of effort.
2. Flickr for web publishing/community/photo hosting. There is a picasa2flickr plugin that integrates fairly well with the Flickr Uploadr application, and this works pretty well. I like the look and feel of the Flickr community much more than Picasa Web. I'm no longer interested in self-hosting. To get all of the geotagged images added to your Flickr map, if you've already geotagged everything before upload, you can use this very handy Importer page to process all in batch.
Right now I've got photos from 2004-2006 being hosted on my ancient PHP Gallery site, running on a server in my brother's basement. He's gently suggested that this is going to go away, and to not rely on it indefinitely. For now, I'm more excited about uploading trip and other photos from 2007-2008, most notably the New Zealand photos as well as a slew of other hiking/travel/outing/trip photos.
Long term, I'll need to rehost all of the 2004-2006 photos. Also, all of the various photos that I'm hosting and hotlinking to from blog entries, forums, etc. will also need to be rehosted and references updated where possible.
So I'm going to try to just gently nibble away at this task for a while.
1. Picasa desktop client to perform local tasks like EXIF tag management, inventory, and basic editing needs. The GeoSetter application does a nice job of managing geotagging in a Flickr compatible location format. The goal here is to have all of these images' tags stored locally in my own inventory, instead of that information only existing on Flickr. If you define the information properly on the desktop, it automatically gets picked up and displayed when you upload to Flickr, so there's no duplication of effort.
2. Flickr for web publishing/community/photo hosting. There is a picasa2flickr plugin that integrates fairly well with the Flickr Uploadr application, and this works pretty well. I like the look and feel of the Flickr community much more than Picasa Web. I'm no longer interested in self-hosting. To get all of the geotagged images added to your Flickr map, if you've already geotagged everything before upload, you can use this very handy Importer page to process all in batch.
Right now I've got photos from 2004-2006 being hosted on my ancient PHP Gallery site, running on a server in my brother's basement. He's gently suggested that this is going to go away, and to not rely on it indefinitely. For now, I'm more excited about uploading trip and other photos from 2007-2008, most notably the New Zealand photos as well as a slew of other hiking/travel/outing/trip photos.
Long term, I'll need to rehost all of the 2004-2006 photos. Also, all of the various photos that I'm hosting and hotlinking to from blog entries, forums, etc. will also need to be rehosted and references updated where possible.
So I'm going to try to just gently nibble away at this task for a while.