Digital Picture Frame Flow

[rhpot1991]

Wondering what the best way is to handle this situation. I have my catalogs by year, containing all of my photos. I have a digital picture frame that I'd like to load up with photos, but the aspect ratio is slightly different than most of my cameras (1.5 vs 1.33 I think). Due to this I need to crop the photos for them to look better on the frame. My initial plan was to have a catalog just for the frame, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to copy photos from one catalog to another. Currently I made a new version of the photo and tagged it with a color in order to identify that was the use, but this leaves me with extra versions for no good reason. How would everyone else handle this?

[afx]

I would not bother to crop specifically for that frame if I really want to see my collection there. Way too much effort.

But if you insist:
Here is a method that wastes loads of disk space, but most if it can be reclaimed...
Create a copy queue that uses a different base directory from your current catalog and puts the files into a second catalog.
Send all relevant files to the queue.

Now use the second catalog to crop.
Send images to another output tree that is used as the input for the frame.
Once done nuke the now superfluous second catalog and the copied images and only keep the result.

cheers
afx

[grubernd]

crops run under "disposable" for me, especially since there is no way to sort and/or find images by crop ratio.

so maybe just create a version, crop it, send to batch, delete version. or keep it, after all it's just a few extra kilobytes on the disk. an extra catalog would be total overkill me thinks.

the other idea is to just send all the images to a batchQ with the right crop set via a preset - afx will cringe at the idea of "blind faith crops", but heck, if you want to get a really big amount of images to your frame and have used most of your images with no cropping at all before, this is much faster. just redo the few images you dont like the crop of..

[RobinAshworth]

I personally put a bit of effort in. Creating new versions for the photo-frame, setting crop and the using the colour to mark those versions.....