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As a zenfolio user, I receive email updates about new features they offer. Just recently they sent an email saying my account can now host video. The main reason I use their service is even though I know how to do programming, I wanted to have a gallery that looked great and was easy to use without much effort.  I liked their interface a lot more than other offerings so it was an easy choice. Beside the gallery ease of use and nice display format, being able to offer prints and other products was a big reason for a paid service too. I have been using Youtube for my video hosting, but I can see some benefit in using my Zenfolio powered gallery for some videos…

I’ve been spending a lot of time setting up a new website where I will host a good deal of images. It will use Zenfolio as a back-end and have the ability to allow for buying downloads and ordering prints. Before that while going through my 1300 or so cruise images I setup a few standard processes for processing images so that they look how I feel they should. When processing images the way I do, it takes a good deal of time. I always am trying to find ways to speed up the process, but on the other hand I always want to have each image tweaked to my eye. Here are a few points to my (post) processing process: I shoot images in RAW (DNG) format with flat colors. I use my old license of Photoshop CS2 on Linux through Wine. I recently bought a copy of “Noise Ninja” plugin/standalone software.  Steps for post processing that result in finished full resolution pictures (meaning I don’t shrink these as they will be for my Zenfolio gallery): Open a block of images in Photoshop (say 50 a...