bulk or batch upload or import with watermark and/or imagecache actions?

By riversidekid on 11 Sep 2010 at 16:39 UTC

Is there a way to bulk import into the current image_gallery.module galleries with watermarks on resulting images?

I am trying to develop a website with an extensive gallery, it will start with about 10,000 photos in 100 galleries, 30,000 photos if you include the thumbnail, preview and original of each. Currently I host a gallery with gallery2 (from http://gallery.menalto.com) and considered embedding gallery into my Drupal site, but I'd rather one engine and one database as the embedding is a bit hairy.

I have considered a number of image gallery modules, and techniques but I can't find one that offers a bulk import with watermark.

I really don't want to upload all the images individually, but there are modules currently available that will work, like http://drupal.org/project/watermark. My question is with regards to the bulk upload process directly into the gallery. There are currently several discussions I have found where this is desired, and in the case of http://drupal.org/node/231622 it looks like it might just fit the bill, I assume if this project completes then the built in image_import.module will process additional imported photos as configured by the imagecache_actions module. (I see more processing upon import and more resulting photos, but that's an acceptable cost for the value.)

Is there a way to bulk import into the current image_gallery.module galleries with watermarks on resulting images?

Could I do this if I used a different gallery module?

(please keep in mind, I am not a developer. I am looking for completed modules that I could use or a plan in tact that I could wait for. If there is considerable interest maybe we could pool resources and have something developed at a reasonable rate per person?)

-TIA! (Thanks In Advance!)

Comments

A drush candidate?

dshumaker commented 19 May 2011 at 21:49

This would be great to have! I'd use it on several sites. I would think a drush imagecache bulk module would do the trick. Please post what you ended up doing.