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Improvements to image uploading are coming!

As part of my plans to refocus on improving the existing features of Pixaria Gallery, I'm revisiting the entire image upload and import system for Pixaria. The current system evolved fairly quickly over the course of two years with lots of additions happening in rapid succession and unfortunately, these have made it a little more complicated than I would like in some areas.

One of the most frequent comments I get is that people would like faster ways of getting images into the library with as few steps as possible. Thanks to some great developments in web technologies over the last year or two, this is now much easier a goal to reach than it was when I first started work on Pixaria so tackling this is a top priority.

The situation at the moment is that I'm working on an experimental uploader powered by Adobe Flash. This will make uploading and importing simpler by having the entire process happen on one page and all the current steps that have to be done manually will all be handled automatically in the background.

They way I envisage it working at the moment is something like this:

1. User goes to upload page.
2. User can select multiple files at the same time.
3. User hits the 'upload' button.
4. Without reloading the page, the images are:
   • Uploaded (with progress shown as this happens).
   • Resized on the server.
   • Image metadata is extracted.
   • Images are imported into the library.
   • A list of the uploaded files and any errors is shown.
5. The user can add the images to a gallery or create a new one.

As I said, this is still a bit of a work in progress but, I've been able to get something simple working quite quickly which means I should be able to add it to a live release fairly soon.

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