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Though I publish photos on my main website. I wanted a way to quickly share pics with friends and family. As quite a few other people were sharing their photos with me using flickr, i decided to go the same way.

As it turns out free flickr is far too restrictive so its time to find something else.

There is a limit of 3 sets (groups) that is far too small and also on the number of photos that can be uploaded.

I will give zooomr a go and report back. It seems it has no limits and looks pretty decent.

If you know me and have a zooomr account let me know and I will add you to my contacts.

I meant to look into this for a while and now I have I am very pleasantly suprised!

 
 
import win32com.client
 
ps = win32com.client.Dispatch("Photoshop.Application")
ps.Preferences.TypeUnits = 1
ps.Preferences.RulerUnits = 1
 
mydoc = ps.Open("IMG_1630.jpg")
if  mydoc.Height > mydoc.Width :
   print "Portrait"
else :
   print "Landscape"
   mydoc.ResizeImage(Width=640)
 

Basically you use the vb api docs :

PS VB API

The API seems quite detailed, certainly enough for my needs. If all else fails you can always call a Photoshop Action if it gets too tricky.

Lots more coming soon on this subject!