You two are blogging/pulishing machines, so I've always been curious about your workflow, specifically with your photography. Do you use any special program to store and resize your photos before you publish them? Anna hope your gut is on the mend! Thanks! Doug

Doug --- We use Linux, so our program recommendations probably won't match what most people use. I file photos in folders labeled with the date (year first so they're all in chronological order) then a short summary of what subject matter was included in that day's photobomb. This is essential for me since I often have to go back and find the original to put in a book, so it's handy to be able to search by date and subject.

I use the GIMP for resizing, cropping, and playing with light. It's basically the free version of Photoshop and is very powerful, but takes a while to learn. I can't live without it now!

Thanks for asking about my gut. I am starting to feel a lot better, although I'm still on daily imodium and am watching my fiber intake very carefully. My energy and brainpower have returned, though, which makes life much better!

Hi All,

Linux is ALL I use.

Free! Download a 'live' CD version, boot on it. All applications are free and already there.

Or install to a memory stick and run from there.

This computer a Dell 2650 boots the Knoppix 6.4.3 version of Linux.

And that is what I am typing on now.

Didn't even remove Windows. Just boot from CD and I am up and running.

AND BUG FREE! ] Lots of fun :).

John

If you find yourself doing the same thing for each picture, you should consider using ImageMagick from the command-line.

For instance, to shrink all photos in a directory to a width of 1024 pixels (while keeping the aspect ratio) and save them as JPEG files to a separate directory, you could do this (the ">" is the command prompt):

> mkdir small
> mogrify -path small -resize 1024 -format jpg -quality 80 *.jpg

An example:

> ls
img_4300.jpg  img_4301.jpg  img_4302.jpg  img_4302.jpg  img_4304.jpg
> mkdir small
> mogrify -path small -resize 1024 -format jpg -quality 80 img*
> identify img_4300.jpg small/img_4300.jpg
img_4300.jpg JPEG 3648x2736 3648x2736+0+0 8-bit sRGB 3.488MB
small/img_4300.jpg JPEG 1024x768 1024x768+0+0 8-bit sRGB 112KB

Another example to add a copyright notice to the metadata of a bunch of JPEG files:

> mogrify -comment 'Copyright © 2016 A. Hess' *.jpg

Of course ImageMagick can do a lot more than just change the size of a picture. It is also possible to draw on images, or add visible text. See e.g. the examples on the website. The website also has extensive documentation on all the options.