{"id":18,"date":"2007-02-11T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T09:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proterra.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/11\/photographic-workflow-managing-file-formats\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T09:37:36","slug":"photographic-workflow-managing-file-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/2007\/02\/11\/photographic-workflow-managing-file-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographic Workflow: Managing file formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important part of the process of digital photography I think is establishing a 'workflow' that works for you (pardon the pun).  Workflow may sound like it is something that is the domain solely of professionals, but even if you are amateur maybe only taking a handful of pictures it is, I would assert, very important.<\/p>\n<p>I'm now posting to various different photosites, such as Photo.net, Flickr, Pixola, and various stock agenices. Each require a specific quality of image. Different resoultions, file formats, and maximum file size.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst any photo tool can handle this type of transformation, I was looking for something more streamlined. So I'm currently investigating using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagemagick.org\/script\/index.php\">ImageMagick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some articles on using this are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www-128.ibm.com\/developerworks\/library\/l-graf\/?ca=dnt-428\">developerWorks<\/a>, an odd place for a photo article but never mind. With a great tutorial site on creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagemagick.org\/Usage\/thumbnails\/\">thumbnails<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More will be posted on this topic !<\/p>\n<p>An alternative that I was considering pursuing is the use of Python and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pythonware.com\/library\/pil\/handbook\/introduction.htm\">Python Imaging Library\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important part of the process of digital photography I think is establishing a &#8216;workflow&#8217; that works for you (pardon the pun). Workflow may sound like it is something that is the domain solely of professionals, but even if you are amateur maybe only taking a handful of pictures it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/2007\/02\/11\/photographic-workflow-managing-file-formats\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}