Today i edited and uploaded over 500 photos to my flickr account (well there was about 300 uploaded when i published this). When you’re dealing with that number of photos, you can’t afford to spend time manually editing them one by one so i used google picasa‘s ‘i’m feeling lucky button’ to batch auto edit & optimise all photos…
It did a decent job but left some photos pretty dark and others a bit cold looking, so i just scanned through them all quickly and touched up the ones which i didn’t like the look of. In some cases, it did a better job of editing photos than i could ever have done manually.
The ‘i’m feeling lucky’ feature can only do so much however. It can’t for example straighten photos, so that still needs some human input but overall, i was pretty pleased with the results. For batch editing large numbers of photos, i feel picasa is the best solution. It’s quicker and easier to use than photoshop. It is indeed the lazy man’s photo editing software of choice.
The Photos
The photos i’m uploading were from my holiday in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina a few weeks ago. I had selected these 500+ photos for uploading & editing out of about 2,000. Up until today, i only had about 50 of my best photos online, most of which spent quite a bit of time in photoshop. So here’s some more photos from my trip and for the rest, check out my flickr set…
There’s literally hundreds more on my flickr and my entire collection of photos from my trip can be viewed in a slideshow here.