>> Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high >> resolution scan of the album's cover. There is a new plugin for gmpc >> that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV. As the huge >> cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that >> need to be cropped, or that the cover needs to be slightly rotated. >> I'd like to be able to edit those images as I notice problems with >> them, but I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image >> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing >> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only >> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different). >> >> Any ideas? imagemagick comes to mind. Is there a script or even a >> GUI I could run on the HDTV system that might be able to crop and/or >> rotate quickly and easily? > > Imagemagick would probably work (man convert). If you have gimp > installed on your mediapc you could always start gimp on that and use X > (depending if you allow X-forwarding in your sshd_config). Otherwise you > could do like Stroller suggests (NFS or Samba).
Great idea, I installed gimp and enabled X-forwarding and it's great. I've got a couple X-forwarding questions I'm going to post about. - Grant
