A Thousand Words
Hey, suckers — apparently I type thousands of words a minute. When I put up the memorial pictures of Kerri dog, I used an interesting and exciting tool for putting images up on your blog.
The scenario is: I have a photo, and I want to touch it up, rotate it and put it on my blog.
1. Given that I’m a super hero, I have my own domain, so zap — I can photoshop it at home, upload it using FTP to my site and use the <IMG> tag to refer to it.
2. Alternately, I can photoshop it at home, use hello (an image-sharing program that automatically integrate with Blogger) and post it with a single click. Hooray!
The first alternative is probably the most flexible and stable. Unfortunately, it has many complicated steps and requires you to have photo editing software, and know how to use it. It also requires that you have access to a web host to hold your image.
The second alternative is fast, but still requires photo editing software, and it involves having the Hello client installed on your computer. And then the post it generates isn’t entirely to my satisfaction. See the post of me and Glenn for further study.
There’s one more alternative: Flickr. This is a website that stores and organizes all of your photos. Their free service should satisfy your needs, although it limits you to uploading 10 megabytes of photos a month.
3. I log into my free account at Flickr and upload my photo at full size. I use their web interface to rotate it appropriately. I click on the “all sizes” button, which lets me pick a size to publish and even gives me the HTML code to insert into my blog. I do so, and it works SO magically.
What are the hitches? Until you upgrade to a paying account, they will only let you organize your last 100 photos. Your other photos still exist, and you can view the links to them on existing blog entries, but you can’t change them.
What are the other benefits? Well, you can tag your photos with words to make looking for them easier. You can also associate a full description. You can mark your photos as private or public, and you can even publish a photostream, which is like blog syndication, but with your photos.
If you’re looking to share your recent photos with other people, this is a great way to automatically do it.
A neat feature is that they make all the most popular tags available with a neat interface.
Try it for photos on your blog today! It’s simple and fun for the whole family.
GKarlsen
Holy Smokes!!!
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I choose to also be a super hero and select Option #1. Plus I suspect those bastards at Flickr would just steal my wonderful photos and try and sell them as their own. Screw them!
You clearly are only a mediocre hero, with no right to the full-blown “super” moniker.
I tried hello and flikr a while back but didn’t like flikr, and noone else is on hello, so… I’m also suspicious of some of these “free” services that will sucker you in, and then either reduce their free features or start charging you for everything.
Anyways, you see, I am a true super hero: I have my own domain, on which I host my photos, but instead of using photoshop to rotate and re-size, I’ve written a little PHP program on my site for automatically doing the resizing and even photo-album making.
I’m planning on working on it some more, so if you want I can send you the code.
For all non-hero types (whether super or mediocre), a pretty cool and free program that you may want to use for your photo-stuff is at: http://www.picasa.com
It’ll do your resizing, rotating, and red-eye removal, and is way easier to use than photoshop.
Excellent, Roger. Picasa2 is new available, with extra delicious features. I’ve recommended Picasa to everyone and will continue to do so.
I don’t want to hear any Photoshop bashing. Photoshop CS is the best thing since Chance and Slippers!
Is anybody bashing Photoshop? I would tear them limb from limb, I would! An excellent program with a well thought out interface — but also an excellent price tag.
And I would hardly recommmend it to Joe Digi-cam, if all he wants to do is rotate and resize.
Interestingly enough, our work PCs now have the GIMP installed by default. It’s a free, Photoshop replacement that’s looking better every release.