From e58848bc668d6b1a88ef54f6156e9caf3f9a5d27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Schottelius Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:52:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] how I publish photos Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius --- blog/my-photo-publishing-approach.mdwn | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/my-photo-publishing-approach.mdwn diff --git a/blog/my-photo-publishing-approach.mdwn b/blog/my-photo-publishing-approach.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..25e81b62 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/my-photo-publishing-approach.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +[[!meta title="My photo publishing approach"]] + +During a discussion about image management software like +[gthumb](http://live.gnome.org/gthumb), +[f-spot](http://f-spot.org/) or [shotwell](http://yorba.org/shotwell/), +we came up with the question how far a management software should go. +Should it provide basic image manipulation? Publishing to the web? +Creation of static web albums? + +For me the feature "create static webalbum" is very important, +as I don't want to publish my images/photos on sites like +[picasa](http://picasaweb.google.com/) or +[flickr](http://www.flickr.com/), because I don't want to depend +on these companies. I especially do not want to recreate +all the albums, if one of those companies stops providing the service. + +One of the main questions is, which program should handle the gallery +creation process: + + * the image viewing / managing utility (most likely with a gui) + * an external command line utility + +After some time, I think there are some key points: + + * a special desigend command line utility may be better suited for the job + * a gui may be very good suited to actually select the right images + +## How I create and publish static photo galleries + +So in the end, I decided for the following setup: + + * Use shotwell to organise photos + * Use shotwell to export downscaled version of photos to a directory + (one per event) + * Create a Makefile, which utilises llgal to (re-)create the whole website + +Thus I can change the gui, but do not need to change the gallery format. + +## SEE ALSO + + * [[docs/static-image-gallery-generator-comparison]] + +[[!tag net unix]]