Gnarr. Or: digital photography is time-consuming!

[mousme]

I apparently have no patience for the photo-uploading process. I have well over 200 photos (I am insane apparently), and have found no good way to mass upload/mass re-size them. So I am uploading in batches of ten, and then re-sizing one at a time. It is taking for-freaking-ever. I also have to sleep at some point in time, so once again, there will be no post of substance today concerning France. At this rate, I don't know when I'll have them done, since dealing with the visual component is taking so freakin' long.

Anyway, please bear with me, folks. I promise that this will get done, sooner rather than later. I just can't devote as much time to it as it really needs right now. I will post some teaser pictures later tonight, to tide you over. Bear in mind, I am the most amateur of all amateur photographers. None of the photos were taken with good photography in mind, but merely to document what I was seeing. I leave awesome photography to the likes of longpig, chibipunkdemon, ankhorite, and dizietsma, among many other talented photographers of my acquaintance.

In other news, I took the cats to the vet for their follow-up appointment, which cost "only" half of what the previous one did. George has what looks to be a respiratory tract infection, so he gets pills twice a day for ten days. If that doesn't help, then we're looking at even more expensive treatments. *sigh* I love my cats. I just wish they weren't so damned expensive.

I am considering an icon overhaul of this LJ. I hate icon overhauls, because I love ALL my icons, even the ones I never use. However, my icons are ceasing increasingly to reflect what I'm doing with my life these days, and so I think I may have to do something drastic. In fact, I may try to overhaul the look of my LJ completely for the first time in... what... four years? *gasp*

Okay. Back to re-sizing and stuff.

Comments

[gats.livejournal.com]

But if you make your icons reflect what you're doing with your life, then you'll only have the overtime fairy icon.

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

no good way to mass upload/mass re-size them

If you've got Photoshop, you could use File->Automate->Batch... to resize a batch of photos.

If you don't have Photoshop, I would assume that the software that came with the camera probably has batch-resizing ability. Most do. (Or they *should*:/)

As for uploading, I can't help there. I assume you're not on Flickr, which now has a mass uploader.

[curtana.livejournal.com]

There are millions of freeware programs that will batch-resize and rotate your images. I use ACDSee, and there's a download link for the Mac version here. Or you could try some of the ones here. And upload the pictures to Flickr or Photobucket, both of which have simple batch upload capabilities so that you can upload everything at once. Seriously, it will save you hours of time and frustration.