bulk image upload?

If you are using the import mod and doing a bulk upload you can specify the image name but do you first have to upload all the images one by one through the image upload in admin?

I suppose you need to that so it creates the 4 different sized images.

What if you want to upload 50 products with several images of each?

Maybe you could use a photoshop action to create the 4 different sized images and upload them to the cache directory?  I just don't think you can append 22x22 or 100x100 to the filename of each different size image you save with an action. 

the resizing is done by opencart no real need that i can see to create your own image sizes for upload

Because if I am uploading 50 products, with 2 images each, that means you have to go to the image upload page in admin for each picture and enter a name & browse to the pic and hit save. That would take a while you have 100 pictures.  I Would rather upload a folder full of images and use the import script.

We use the Export/Import extension for OpenCart, and we then do the following steps:
1) Export all your products and/or categories to a spreadsheet
2) Edit the worksheets to insert the names of the images and/or additonal images
3) Import the updated spreadsheet back to the OpenCart database
4) Then bulk-upload all the image files to the image directory using FTP