A new module has recently been released to the Drupal community. It's called "Imagefield Import". This module has the potential to be very useful to all of the sites that are built by Red Leaf Media.
Due to the way in which we handle the setup of photo galleries on our sites, each photo exists as a Drupal "node". In the past, each individual photo must be uploaded and submitted one at a time, resulting in very lengthy times for photo addition. However, this module makes the process much faster. Users with appropriate permissions can FTP their photos to a specified directory on the server. Then they visit a page in their browser where they can enter titles and descriptions for each photo as well as choosing a category for the photos to be placed in. After submitting the form, the photo nodes are created in a much shorter amount of time than was possible with previous setups.
We have contributed some code to the module, which is currently in a beta release. The final version should be available shortly.
