I'm a photographer. My site is at: mumford-photo.com. This is an html and CSS site (no flash, thanks). I want to convert it to drupal.
My issue is how to batch process photos. When I do a shoot, I have a folder with high res images. With my current workflow I use an app on my mac to build an image gallery, with a thumbnail gallery page, preview pages for all images, and the option of high res downloads. Then I ftp all files to my site.
I can replicate most of this in Drupal, but I have to create a page for each image, then create a gallery page. I need to automate this. I might have a shoot where I need to show a hundred pics to a client in an hour. I can't create individual image nodes for every image.
The problem is not one of batch file upload. I can easily upload a folder with high res images to my site with FTP. What I need is batch file processing, first with image cache, to create thumbnail and preview size images, and then with content creation to make the TGP and preview pages.