My last entry talked about how I was finally getting around to learning ImageMagick so I could automate some image processing.

The madness continues!

A little bit of history is probably in order:

• My first career was as a photographer; I did it for approximately a decade. I still love photography, and – trust me – I have thousands of pictures laying around the house. You have been warned.
• My second career was as a writer/journalist, and during that period, I was always the “geek” of the writing staff (or part of that sad-sack club). I did production work – desktop publishing (QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator and so on) and saw the promise of digital photography before it really happened.
• Current career – computer dork – dovetails nicely with the first two when it comes to graphics and such. Which is why the madness continues!

So ImageMagick has been for my Inner Geek and my Inner Artist (actually, my Inner Geek is more of an outie…).

I’ve fired up the old scanner and have spent some time with it today. It’s been fun.

Next steps: Batch processing with error handling; gallery construction.

The first step is just coding – I’ll get it to do what I want, I’m certain of that.

The second step is more … uh, interesting.

Because I’m using Blogger, and so they own the database.

I’m going to have to figure a system that will publish galleries locally and then push them to this site.

Again, doable.

But … in what way? There are a million (ok, more than two) ways to do this, so which path do I take?

That’s the frustrating, rip up the code/rip out the ethernet cable part.

Also the fun part.

Again, my Inner Geek is showing…