Cropping/Resizing Script Automation for TGP photos

[flasko]

I remembering reading somewhere that some of you TGP submitters use Photoshop scripts to automatically crop your photos.

I was just wondering about how do you ensure that the photos cropped will look good. For example, does cropping and resizing the middle 80% of your photos work well enough?

I know for 1-2 galleries a day it's ok to crop manually. But what if you are submitting 1-2 galleries EACH for 8 different domains every day? In that case, I think manually cropping photos might make you go insane due to boredom and repitition.

I've figured out how to automate everything except for cropping/resizing photos. So I'm a little anxious to hear how everyone else does it.

Thanks.

[Hyballs]

Hi flasko, Try Ezythumbs which can do batches but I am not sure about cropping. I just checked and it doesn't crop!

Guess you need a photo editor.

[balls_deep]

I think he is reffering to a TGP script that auto crops the thumbs for you.

I know my buddy uses the auto thumb function then manually reviews the pics so he can re-thumb the poor captures.

I don't know of any script that will give you perfect thumbs every time with automation.

[theviking]

Originally posted by flasko


I was just wondering about how do you ensure that the photos cropped will look good. For example, does cropping and resizing the middle 80% of your photos work well enough?

Yes, you have to sort the orig. pictures before you automate the thumbing if you are cropping the pics.
Most of the time i am not cropping them, just ensure that the orig. picture is nice enough.

Handcropping will allways lead to the best results no matter what then.

[King Porn]

Originally posted by flasko

I know for 1-2 galleries a day it's ok to crop manually. But what if you are submitting 1-2 galleries EACH for 8 different domains every day? In that case, I think manually cropping photos might make you go insane due to boredom and repitition.

You can only submit 1-2 galleries per day regardless of how many domains you have. Most TGPs allow 1 gallery per webmaster per day unless you have a partner account that allows more. Setup a batch job in photoshop and resize automatically based on xxx amount of pixels on the long side. Do the same with your thumbs and don't forget to sharpen them. It doesn't take long at all once you get it down. You may also want to look into submission software such as Advanced Submitter which is what I use.

[jonnydoe]

flasko you wouldn't happen to be using multiple identities to get that many galleries out would you? tgp owners have some pretty sophisticated methods to detect such practices...

[flasko]

no, I only have one domain.

But there are TGPs that require submitters to have more than one domain.

For example:
http://www.nextpicturez.com/partner-request.html