I already have Photoshop actions for watermarking and resizing, the point of this is really to stay out of Photoshop to make the photo processing faster and less involved. As soon as I open Photoshop, I cannot resist the urge to crop, sharpen, color balance, etc. and for throwing a few photos up with a post, that is unnecessary.

as for photoshop, since you already use it, i know you’d be comfortable writing some javascript actually if you haven’t done already, it’s actually way easier than writing javascript. there is a listener plugin that stores all your actions to a logfile which is all javascript (think of photoshop’s actions but on steroids). then you just call the script and it can do all your tasks at once (crop, resize, add a watermark, export to gif/jpg, rename from an array) and it works in batch mode. pretty amazing stuff…

regardless, good luck and i am more than interested to see what your final workflow ends up being.

I have friends that use iView, but don’t have great things to say about it - I’m looking for a browser (and will check out cocoviewx), not a catalog-er.

photoshop CS2 (CS):
i know photoshop is out of your budgeted pricerange, but as of CS it is fully scriptable with javascript which is truly awesome; resizing, adding layers (ie watermarks), setting transparencies cropping, exporting, no problem…

iView Media
http://www.iview-mul[...]a.com/media/
i use iviewmediapro but that too is out of your price range, but they did just announce a $50 consumer version which i have to check out. the pro version is pretty great, totally applescriptable, etc… let’s just say that i have used iphoto once (to check it out) and that was it…

CocoViewX
http://www.stalkingw[...]e/cocoviewx/
image browser that i use to do some quick folder browsing, picture sorting when not using iviewmediapro

GraphicConverter
http://www.lemkesoft[...]graphcon.htm
ui takes some getting used to but does batch processing and is applescriptable

hope this helps somewhat…