That just changed. Thank you.

Most people using WordPress are using shared hosts. They will probably have lots of disk quota, but limited compute, so this influences your design descisions.

Thinks I dislike about the default WordPress image handling.
* images are uploaded one at a time through a browser interface (slow, inefficient for more than a couple of photos).
* images are resized once (when uploaded) to thumbnail, medium, and original sizes. Too bad if you want to change the size of your thumbnails.
* no way to watermark images.

If I was running a photo-based blog, I would like a plugin that had these features.
* is based on folders/directories, so I can upload a large number of photos all at once via FTP.
* I can choose to run batch process to re-size all my images from the original if I decide that I want thumbnail sizes to be different etc. Due to limited compute, I don’t want a plugin that resized an image from the original every time it is viewed.
* I can run a batch process to add a watermark to all photos. Resized and watermarked photos are stored in a separate directory, so if I choose to use a different watermark, I can just run the watermark/resize batch job again.
* watermarking should be optional. I might want to watermark my own photos, but not images that I have reposted from elsewhere.

Cheers,
Stu