Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-13 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/02/13 14:39, John Byrne wrote: I'd love to know of a free easy to use lossless cropping thingy. Sounds like a project for the Google Summer of Code? Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 12 February 2013 14:30, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping, resizing, format

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-13 Thread Magnus Manske
ImageMagick can mass-crop images, with adjustable tolerance. It can also deskew (turn to right angle) images: http://greyproc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/batch-straighteningdeskewing-and.html On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: On 12 February 2013 14:30,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Jon Davies
Fabulous! On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt harryab...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment. Harry -- Harry Burt

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Gray
Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping... (I feel like there *ought* to be some kind of monstrous seventeen-clause command line script I can write to do this sort of thing, but no luck so far) - Andrew. On 11 February 2013 20:06,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Harry Burt
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote: Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more oriented towards reorienting than cropping... Yes; well, it seems to only want to crop black borders from around the edges. But in any case, reorientation

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Richard Nevell
My laptop doesn't have image editing software, otherwise I'd bring it, but if there will be laptops available I'd be interested in helping out. Richard Nevell On 12 February 2013 10:53, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Very nice! I will have a play, but it looks like that's more

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Peel
Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along? Thanks, Mike On 12 Feb 2013, at 13:52, Richard Nevell richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: My laptop doesn't have image editing software, otherwise I'd bring it, but if there will be laptops available I'd be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Gray
On 12 February 2013 13:59, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along? GIMP is indeed on all the visitor laptops (at least on the Ubuntu side). I'll leave the Windows side up to Richard :-) (We should

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping, resizing, format conversion, etc. being small and lightweight. On 12 February 2013 14:01,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread John Byrne
beyond the pro rata for the area removed. I'd love to know of a free easy to use lossless cropping thingy. John On 12/02/2013 14:31, wikimediauk-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day! Message-ID: cabixoenthvw6h+f8hvivurl3jowymedhrkmccsja_tdvpfr

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi all - thanks for the interest! We've finally secured a room, after an awful lot of phoning around and juggling of bookings - we'll be working with the images on Monday 18th March, at the BL Conference Centre (which some of you may remember from GLAMcamp, or from one of my public workshops). I

[Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi all, As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs are piling up

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Richard Symonds
Count me in, for a start! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Stevie Benton
If I'm available, I'll bring along my Photoshoppery skills! Stevie On 11 February 2013 17:23, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Count me in, for a start! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Gordon Joly
On 11/02/13 17:34, Stevie Benton wrote: If I'm available, I'll bring along my Photoshoppery skills! I will bring GIMP skills... Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Magnus Manske
I'd be interested too, if it's on a weekend. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote: Hi all, As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian photographs. After some

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Theresa Knott
I'll be happy to come along and work provided I'm free on that day. Theresa On Feb 11, 2013 5:20 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Hi all, As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
+1 On Feb 11, 2013 5:23 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Count me in, for a start! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Photograph cropping day!

2013-02-11 Thread Harry Burt
Has anyone tried using unpaper [1] on a sample of images? I could do -- all you really need is a Unix-based OS and some command-line savvy - but I'm a little tied up just at the moment. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) [1] http://unpaper.berlios.de/