I'm not usually the cheerleader type, but here goes. One of the things that prevented me from making the jump to an all-Linux machine was that I assumed I would have problems downloading pictures from my digital camera to my computer (10 minutes on comp.os.linux.hardware solved that), and I was also worried about finding an application that would allow me to view and manipulate the images easily. I was aware of GIMP, but I could never quite get into the scripting to do batch processing.
I just discovered ImageMagick, jhead, and Gallery. With ImageMagick, I can resize (mogrify) an entire folder full of images. I can also create a contact sheet (tiled thumbnails) of the directory. I use Jhead to rename the images according to the date, which is taken from the exif data. I also use jhead to write all the exif data to a text file. Now I can take a folder full of pics, rename them, copy them to a new folder, and resize them using a simple shell script I wrote. Then I zip them up and upload them to my web-based photo gallery run by Gallery 1.2.5. This is way easier than when I was running Windows. Perhaps I could have done the same thing, but I would not have known where to begin. If only I could figure out how to do color adjustments in batch, as my camera gives a slightly reddish cast to images, I would be totally satisfied. Happy Camper Todd -- Todd Slater It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. (Bertrand Russell)
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