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Uploader script for newspaper reader photos?
Paul W Gillespie, Photographer
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Annapolis | MD | USA | Posted: 5:50 PM on 12.16.10 |
->> At our paper we get a lot of reader photos sent in on a daily basis. These come in by email and a large part of our photo editors job is processing these image. I just finished a two day stint as PE and I want to pull my hair out. The worst part of it, for me, is having to cut and paste the caption info into the IPTC of the images. That is when they write a clear caption.
What I am looking for is something our web guy can put on a page of our site that uploads an image to us somehow and gives the submitter a place to write a caption. Then when it is uploaded, the caption gets put in the IPTC. The page could include our photo requirements and what we need in the caption.
I am no web wiz and do not want to reinvent the wheel if it already exists. I am sure our web guy could probably write one, but he always says he is busy. So something that takes minimal effort for him and is not super costly would be great.
Is there such a beast? What does your paper do for reader photos?
Thanks
Paul |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 10:37 PM on 12.16.10 |
->> Paul:
There is such a beast. It is called ImageFolio Pro - http://www.imagefolio.com It can handle uploads from multiple users and you can create folders/categories like say anniversaries, wedding announcements, news, sports... ect. So they can upload their photos. When the upload process is complete, then a dialog box opens for them to input caption info, their info like name, address, email address..yadda, yadda, yadda... The PE then can copy or move the photos to your current system. If your papers web page is rigged for server side includes, you can incorporate IFP into the rest of your site seamlessly. Questions on how to make it work for you email or call me. Your IT folks can contact imagefolio and demo it to make sure it will suit your needs.
HTH |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 3:32 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> I can't tell whether you're running PHP, perl, or other, but there are publicly available libraries to read/write EXIF and IPTC headers for those languages. You're welcome to give your web guy my info if he needs any suggestions on direction, I've worked on similar things a few times from both sides.
The actual upload and form are super simple, it's the captioning that requires specialized knowledge.
I'd probably just have it save the files with an ordered timestamp (like 2010-12-16-05:44-1) so you can FTP in and download new ones and clean out the old. E-mail would be the other option, but that's a little messy. Could have it send you a note that there are X images to be looked at though. |
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