Free Helpers

[GeoffS]

I've become a huge fan of the SimpleViewer gallery-maker Porta. 

What I like best is that Porta can take a folder of large JPEGs, resize/sharpen them in a reasonable way, and create a very slick looking Flash and pure-HTML gallery with almost no work.

Here's an example gallery: http://moving-target-photos.com/2006TotL/

The index.html page contains some Javascript that trys to detect if you have Flash installed.  If you don't it pops up a page with the option to go to the Flash gallery or to the pure-HTML gallery: http://moving-target-photos.com/2006TotL/index_html.html

Great stuff for those of us who are too lazy to figure out even simple stuff like SimpleViewer.

Cheers,

Geoff S.

[FAR148]

Fellow Fence Checkers,
Have are even thought of selling you images online or some other custom product that uses your images? Like Mugs, greeting cards, calendars.... I have found two free solutions. For your print needs, check out Printrom.

Printroom
www.printroom.com/

Printroom has 3 level of membership, Classic,Pro and Premium.Classic being free,you get
 
*300MB of space
*Custom online storefronts
*Set your prices for prints and products and receive a monthly profit check from your sales
*Extensive prints and photo gift product offering
*Lab services
*Printroom Direct software
*Pro Studio Manager software
*Professional quality with 100% Guarantee
*Sales and marketing tools
*ICC color profiles
*Live Web-based training

Now for your Custom product needs check out CafePress. You design it, you sell it on CafePress. Express yourself. For fun, for a gift, or for a  profit!

Cafepress
http://www.cafepress.com/

You can design and sell ton of products. Buttons, poster prints, calendars, T-shirt and more. With a free account you are limited to the numeber of products you can design and sell.
But you set your price and at the end of the month, you get a check! (If you sell anything)

Until next time,
Steven L  

[FlyingKiwi]

folks,

I've been using Opanda PowerExif for a long time to read and write EXIF on my JPEGs, but as far as I know it doesn't have a batch facility.

Does anyone know of some free software (since this is the free software thread) which can apply copyright EXIF to a whole bunch of JPEGs at once?

Richard.

[Chaseplane]

Richard,

Do you happen to use Windows Vista? If so, simply select all the images for which you want to change the EXIF data, click the right mouse button while hovering over one of the selected images, select properties, and in the Details tab you can change the copyright info, which will then be applied to all the selected images.

It's not particularly fast in applying the changes, but it does the trick and it comes with the OS . . .

Hope this helps,
Herbert

[FlyingKiwi]

Herbert,

That's awesome!   It's about the first good thing I've seen about Vista since being forced to upgrade to it four months ago!

Richard.

[FlyingKiwi]

Well, this is Windows Vista, so there had to be a fly in the ointment!   

By adding "Richard Seaman" as the author and my website address as the copyright, this added 7 Kbytes to the size of the file.  So for the page of 100 fighter photos I mentioned on another thread, I've now nearly doubled the size of all the photos.     

The more I look at Vista, the more I think that it's only intended for people who want to keep a few snapshots and MP3s, and it's useless for anyone who has real work to do.   

Richard.