Topic: Post Upload Processing

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hmmm, that's odd! There's only one call to uploadPhoto, followed immediately by an exit() command, so that shouldn't be happening...

Maybe you added the e-mail call inside a loop?

[kl]

Hi Mike,
I'm a little bit about the post upload processing command that you have below
postupload=convert -font Courier -fill red -draw 'rotate 270 text -60,10 "album.pl"' ####OBJECT####
does it meant if I replaced "album.pl" with different of wording like "kl", will it imprint the water marking "kl" in the pictures ?
I've tried but seem doesn't work.
thanks,
KL

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yep, that's what it *should* do but you need to have ImageMagick and FreeType installed for that to work...

[hoegaarden_bier]

Another easy way to send 1 email after a batch upload would be to have a postupload script write the file name to a seperate file.
Then have a perl script in a cromtab check that the file has been untouched for eg 5 minutes. Then have this script send out
an email.

Still need to implement but should not take much effort.

Wim

[Mike Bobbitt]

Good idea as well!

[freediver]

This looks very useful. I've been doing 'watermarking' manually in MS Paint and photoshop.

How do I install FreeType and ImageMagick? I googled ImageMagick and it looked too complicated for me - lots of command line stuff that I don't think I can do. I can ftp files and use cPanel. Last time I looked into command line stuff for .htaccess it turned out that cPanel has a facility to do it for me.

I do most of the uploading myself. Should I just install a local copy and do the watermarking on my PC? I would prefer to get the server to do it to all photos if possible.

[frister]

The album_test.pl script that comes with album.pl should tell you if ImageMagick is already installed or not. If it is, then just try the postupload command samples. I don't know of any other way of checking if freetype is installed on your host.

As to watermarking on the PC before uploading: I've been using a little free for personal use utility called Picture-Shark. It's specifically designed for this job and can do whole batches of of photos at once.

[freediver]

Got it working. Thanks.

To display text in the bottom right:

convert -gravity SouthEast -font Courier -fill black -draw 'rotate 0 text 2,-2 "OzPolitic.com"' ####OBJECT####

[Mike Bobbitt]

Nice work, and thanks for the sample code!

[freediver]

I'm giving picture shark a go at the moment. Looks good.