I've been experimenting recently with different apps, wondered what
other folk used, and how they store and resize photos. Now that i have
started a library of photos it seemed time for efficiency and organise
things a bit.

a] Saving photos. I found the best method was to copy [can't cut it
seems] and paste from camera to hard drive. The camera directory is
100_FUJI. I rename this in Nautilus to 28jul09 or whatever the day is
[deleting the photos on the camera afterwards]. Then rename all files
from the DSCF1234 format to 28jul09-1, 28jul09-2 etc with Krename
which i find brilliant [gnome's pyrenamer i found poor cf krename].
When one is posting on various forums i find that if one uses the
DSCF1234 format and save photos in different directories - you can
overwrite photos so using the date seemed a good way of doing things.

b] Resizing photos [smallest size on current camera is 1600x1200 which
i resize to 800x600 for forums]. Manually resizing photos in gThumb
was ok but took too long. I did find the following script which was ok
but there is a glitch somewhere.

cd /100_FUJI
mkdir small
for pic in `ls *.jpg`
do
echo "converting $pic"
convert -resize 800x600 $pic small/sm-$pic
done

c] Generating albums. It seemed the best way was to use a album app
and resize in one go. Of the ones i tried llgal seemed the simplest to
use giving pleasing results - jalbum, Kallery, jigl. I've used a free
website 110mb for storing albums on that i just provide a link for. I
was using photobucket but posting individual photo links takes time.