After each dance competition, we process our photos with a watermark and upload them to our dedicated dance website: tmmdance.com

Web Procellator Script

For the Synergy 2009 upload in April of 2009, Tim wrote our second version of our "Web Procellator" for Adobe Photoshop. To run the script, follow these steps.

If the script is not installed on your computer:

Close Photoshop
Download the script here (Updated May 11, 2009)
Unzip it into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets\Scripts\

To run the script:

Open Photoshop
Go to FILE | SCRIPTS | WEB_PROCELLATOR2
You will be prompted to select a source folder. Choose the Photo Library from the competition
You will be prompted to select a destination folder. Create and select a new folder called "Web Photos" in the project folder
Stand back and wait. It will take a while for massive amounts of photos.

Watermark

Larger preview images on the website are all embedded with a watermark, as seen on the right. This helps deter people from stealing images, and if they do anyways, it works as advertising wherever they show it. *cough* facebook *cough*

Progress Bar

For the Synergy 2009 upload in April 2009, we created a progress bar function that we can call on in the future to track the progress of the upload:

To call the function, simply add the code:

<?php echo get_upload_progress("synergy_dance_2009",371); ?>

Where synergy_dance_2009 is the folder name for the competition, and 371 is the total number of album folders that are being uploaded.

There is also an option to sign up your email, which simply logs their name and email to a text file found at http://www.tmmdance.com/scripts/cyan/emails.txt. When the upload is complete, check this log and send a BCC email to all people who signed up. The default email should read as follows:

Thank you for your patience. All of the photos we took at DANCE COMPETITION NAME are now available online for previewing at:

INCLUDE LINK TO GALLERY HERE

Keep in mind that we also took photos and video of every performance, including all the final showdown performances, and that videos are also available on Blu-ray.

John Romein Techno Monkey Media www.lifetimeheritagefilms.com 604-961-4861

When the number of folders existing in that folder reaches the number that was input for the total number, the progress bar will disappear and will display a short message with a link, saying the photos are online!

Upload Time

The bottleneck for the upload of photos is our limited upload speed from our residence. This forces the upload to take approximately 20-24 hours for 20,000 photos.

If we were to incorporate the processing of the photos and have an internet connection on-site, we would have the ability to stream the photos to the web while we are still on location at the competition, and all the photos would be online by the time we packed up and went home.