On Saturday 02 March 2002 13:07, you wrote: > 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
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