Awesome! Today I spent a buttload of time trying to protect the images I’ve uploaded by sticking a watermark on them. Sure, NextGEN Gallery allows me to have watermarks but when it saves, it completely obliterates the exif meta data (holy tongue twister) which sucks because I plan to integrate the exif data viewer that came with NextGEN soon.

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So it’s been brought to my attention that I’m an asshole. Photoshop does do the following with this File > Automate > Fit Image function. Oh well, i still think the below is useful, but not for pure resizing. Colour me bad.. really bad.

Anyhow, I’m sure you all know about Photoshop Batches, and how shit they can be.. you know the fact that you can’t add any kind of conditional statement at all. For example: If it’s a landscape edit the width -> else it’s a potrait so resize the height. This is basically my issue because it wrecks my desired file sizes for my final output files for my galleries that I’ve been oh so diligently filling out. I googled around and found out that image ready has such conditional support; however, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to do a batch after I made the Droplet. That’s a mouthful.

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Since I know you’re all interested in the stupid details, I’ll take the liberty to detail some on-going changes with my site. I’ve just added some photos and integrated it with the NextGen Gallery and I must say I am thoroughly impressed. It offers a lot of cool features such as:
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