Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/26/11 7:22 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>   http://www.imagemagick.org/
>
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for a GUI which works for Centos 5.6 ?
> In production I run the command line program from PHP with 'exec'.

imagemagick is a batch oriented utility.putting a gui wrapper on a 
batch program inevitably ends up with something clunky and not usable.

for GUI image editing, you want to use something interactive like Gimp.







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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-26 Thread Always Learning

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:46 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:

> imagemagick is a batch oriented utility.putting a gui wrapper on a 
> batch program inevitably ends up with something clunky and not usable.
> 
> for GUI image editing, you want to use something interactive like Gimp.

I wanted to explore all the options and see the effects in a GUI
application rather than laboriously type-in the parameters on the
command line then double-click on the latest photograph to see the
effects.

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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/26/11 7:50 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> I wanted to explore all the options and see the effects in a GUI
> application rather than laboriously type-in the parameters on the
> command line then double-click on the latest photograph to see the
> effects.

but there's a nearly infinite number of possible combinations of the 
options, and the order you specify transforms can have an effect on the 
output, how would you represent this in a GUI ?



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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-26 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:12:28PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 08/26/11 7:50 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> > I wanted to explore all the options and see the effects in a GUI
> > application rather than laboriously type-in the parameters on the
> > command line then double-click on the latest photograph to see the
> > effects.

Two possibilities come to mind.  One, the display command, also part of
the ImageMagick suite will display the picture.  If you click on said
picture, a menu pops up.  In that menu are many options.

Second possibility, type in the commands and put all your output into
one directory.  When you've made your different pictures, install feh
with yum install feh.  

Then, you can type feh  and hit the n (as in next) key.
This will go through the pictures, showing a new one each time you hit
the next key.

The real advantage of convert and other commands is the fact that they
are typed commands.  For example, at an old job, a graphic artist was
given a bunch of pictures.  She had to resize them, often dozens at a
time, and the only way she knew how to do it was in photoshop, one by
one.  Now _that_ was laborious. 

When she mentioned it to me, I had her drop them in a directory on a
server and I would run a script to resize them.  

Anyway, good luck with it.  The whole ImageMagick suite is extremely
userful.



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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/26/11 9:34 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> The real advantage of convert and other commands is the fact that they
> are typed commands.  For example, at an old job, a graphic artist was
> given a bunch of pictures.  She had to resize them, often dozens at a
> time, and the only way she knew how to do it was in photoshop, one by
> one.  Now_that_  was laborious.
>
> When she mentioned it to me, I had her drop them in a directory on a
> server and I would run a script to resize them.

photoshop has a very powerful macro and batch facility.  you can 
interactively create a complex series of operations as a macro, then run 
it on a bunch of files

but thats neither here nor there.   certainly not CentOS related.



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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:22:54 +0100 CentOS mailing list  
wrote:

> 
> 
> I accidentally discovered 'convert'. It is a command line utility.
> Changing a file from png to gif works like this
> 
>   convert aaa.png aaa.gif
> 
> Amazingly simple, powerful and effective.
> 
> I've since discovered it has an amazing list of options
> 
>   convert --help
> 
> a manual
> 
>   file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/www/convert.html  
> 
> and a web site
> 
>   http://www.imagemagick.org/
> 
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions for a GUI which works for Centos 5.6 ?
> In production I run the command line program from PHP with 'exec'.

ImageMagick includes its own GUI:

man display

And see:

man ImageMagick

for a complete list of ImageMagick programs.

The GUI is rather basic -- it is not meant as a anything like a
replacement for the likes of GIMP or xv or any of the other other image
display and manipulation programs out there.  ImageMagick is meant to
be a *CLI* workhorse.

> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> Currently automatically, rotating when necessary, downsizing photographs
> to 900 pixels wide (the software calculates the height) and labelling
> them with the file reference and photograph date - all in one quick
> operation.  Mind boggling options, more than I've ever seen in similar
> software.
> 
> Really amazed :-)
> 
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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-27 Thread Always Learning

On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 07:51 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> ImageMagick includes its own GUI:
> 
> man display
> 
> And see:
> 
> man ImageMagick
> 
> for a complete list of ImageMagick programs.
> 
> The GUI is rather basic -- it is not meant as a anything like a
> replacement for the likes of GIMP or xv or any of the other other
> image display and manipulation programs out there.  ImageMagick
> is meant to be a *CLI* workhorse.

Thank you for mentioning Display ... a friendly wizard has appeared
inviting me to experiment.

Previously I tried

man convert

but your suggestion of

man ImageMagick

gives a lot more information.

I use IM as an extremely useful CLI 'workhorse' via PHP Exec.  With so
many possibilities, it is very time consuming manually trying the
effects from the command line interface.

My most recent achievement was to extract and superimpose the Exif date
and time.


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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-27 Thread Always Learning

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 21:12 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:

> but there's a nearly infinite number of possible combinations of the 
> options, and the order you specify transforms can have an effect on the 
> output, how would you represent this in a GUI ?

I am not writing a GUI for it. However a useful GUI could show the
effects of making simple changes - perhaps one change at a time - not
multiple changes. This would show new users what commands actually do
and the relevant CLI instructions.

You are correct about the order of commands altering the output. The
commands are performed sequentially, left to right. It is impressive
software.


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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-27 Thread hadi motamedi
On 8/27/11, Always Learning  wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 21:12 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> but there's a nearly infinite number of possible combinations of the
>> options, and the order you specify transforms can have an effect on the
>> output, how would you represent this in a GUI ?
>
> I am not writing a GUI for it. However a useful GUI could show the
> effects of making simple changes - perhaps one change at a time - not
> multiple changes. This would show new users what commands actually do
> and the relevant CLI instructions.
>
> You are correct about the order of commands altering the output. The
> commands are performed sequentially, left to right. It is impressive
> software.
>
>
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Sorry. Do you mean having a complete image processing toolbox ,like
MATLAB image processing toolbox, on centos? Do we have such a powerful
tool on centos?
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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-28 Thread hadi motamedi
On 8/27/11, Always Learning  wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 21:12 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> but there's a nearly infinite number of possible combinations of the
>> options, and the order you specify transforms can have an effect on the
>> output, how would you represent this in a GUI ?
>
> I am not writing a GUI for it. However a useful GUI could show the
> effects of making simple changes - perhaps one change at a time - not
> multiple changes. This would show new users what commands actually do
> and the relevant CLI instructions.
>
> You are correct about the order of commands altering the output. The
> commands are performed sequentially, left to right. It is impressive
> software.
>
>
> --
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>
> Paul.
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I have experience working with MATLAB image processing toolbox. I
found GIMP very powerful ,especially in its tools for 'selecting image
foreground/background' that is not so simply available even in MATLAB
toolbox. But unfortunately, my centos 5.6 built-in GIMP is too old
(GIMP 2.2) that does not have these new tools. I didn't find any
straightforward procedure on how to migrate to GIMP 2.4/2.6  . Don't
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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/27/2011 03:22 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>
> I accidentally discovered 'convert'. It is a command line utility.
> Changing a file from png to gif works like this

This is a mailing list, a conversational forum. not a blog or a 
documentaion forum. If you want to contribute such stuff productively, 
do so in the wiki, where it would be appreciated and actually worthwhile.

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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-28 Thread Always Learning

On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 13:33 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> This is a mailing list, a conversational forum. not a blog or a 
> documentaion forum. If you want to contribute such stuff productively, 
> do so in the wiki, where it would be appreciated and actually worthwhile.

Good idea. Thank you.

Any news of those tee-shirts please ?




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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/28/2011 01:37 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> Any news of those tee-shirts please ?
>

Yes!  will post details. Its taken be a bit of time to get costs for 
shipping worked out for all the various parts of the world.

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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread hadi motamedi
On 8/28/11, Always Learning  wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 13:33 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> This is a mailing list, a conversational forum. not a blog or a
>> documentaion forum. If you want to contribute such stuff productively,
>> do so in the wiki, where it would be appreciated and actually worthwhile.
>
> Good idea. Thank you.
>
> Any news of those tee-shirts please ?
>
>
>
>
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I upgraded from centos 5.6 to centos 6.0 to have all of the new
featues on GIMP at hand. I selected Desktop when installing. But I
don't see it under Applications -> Graphics as I had it under my
previous centos 5.6 . Can you please let me know why?
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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:53 AM, hadi motamedi  wrote:

>
> I upgraded from centos 5.6 to centos 6.0 to have all of the new
> featues on GIMP at hand. I selected Desktop when installing. But I
> don't see it under Applications -> Graphics as I had it under my
> previous centos 5.6 . Can you please let me know why?
>
>
Because you didn't install it. Please at least attempt to check these things
out before you run crying to the list

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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread Always Learning

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 16:23 +0430, hadi motamedi wrote:

> I upgraded from centos 5.6 to centos 6.0 to have all of the new
> featues on GIMP at hand. I selected Desktop when installing. But I
> don't see it under Applications -> Graphics as I had it under my
> previous centos 5.6 . Can you please let me know why?

I'm still on Centos 5.6.

What happens when you type-in:-

 yum install gimp


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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread hadi motamedi
On 8/29/11, Always Learning  wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 16:23 +0430, hadi motamedi wrote:
>
>> I upgraded from centos 5.6 to centos 6.0 to have all of the new
>> featues on GIMP at hand. I selected Desktop when installing. But I
>> don't see it under Applications -> Graphics as I had it under my
>> previous centos 5.6 . Can you please let me know why?
>
> I'm still on Centos 5.6.
>
> What happens when you type-in:-
>
>yum install gimp
>
>
> Paul.
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Sorry. I asked and it seems that the GIMP new features just come with centos 6 .
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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread Always Learning

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 09:45 -0700, hadi motamedi wrote:

> On 8/29/11, Always Learning  wrote:

> > What happens when you type-in:-
> >
> >  yum install gimp

> Sorry. I asked and it seems that the GIMP new features just come with centos 
> 6 .

Have you got GIMP in your Centos 6 ?


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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread hadi motamedi
On 8/29/11, Jim Perrin  wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:53 AM, hadi motamedi  wrote:
>
>>
>> I upgraded from centos 5.6 to centos 6.0 to have all of the new
>> featues on GIMP at hand. I selected Desktop when installing. But I
>> don't see it under Applications -> Graphics as I had it under my
>> previous centos 5.6 . Can you please let me know why?
>>
>>
> Because you didn't install it. Please at least attempt to check these things
> out before you run crying to the list
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Sorry . You mean installing its rpm packages from the centos 6 install
cd via 'rpm -Uvh *' ?
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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:49 AM, hadi motamedi  wrote:

>>> I upgraded from centos 5.6 to centos 6.0 to have all of the new
>>> featues on GIMP at hand. I selected Desktop when installing. But I
>>> don't see it under Applications -> Graphics as I had it under my
>>> previous centos 5.6 . Can you please let me know why?
>>>
>>>
>> Because you didn't install it. Please at least attempt to check these things
>> out before you run crying to the list
>>

> Sorry . You mean installing its rpm packages from the centos 6 install
> cd via 'rpm -Uvh *' ?

You almost always want yum to resolve package dependencies for you
instead of executing rpm directly for installs or updates.  Rpm will
tell you about the dependencies but not do anything else helpful like
finding and installing the needed libraries.

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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:37:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list  
wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:49 AM, hadi motamedi  wrote:
> 
> >>> I upgraded from centos 5.6 to centos 6.0 to have all of the new
> >>> featues on GIMP at hand. I selected Desktop when installing. But I
> >>> don't see it under Applications -> Graphics as I had it under my
> >>> previous centos 5.6 . Can you please let me know why?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Because you didn't install it. Please at least attempt to check these 
> >> things
> >> out before you run crying to the list
> >>
> 
> > Sorry . You mean installing its rpm packages from the centos 6 install
> > cd via 'rpm -Uvh *' ?
> 
> You almost always want yum to resolve package dependencies for you
> instead of executing rpm directly for installs or updates.  Rpm will
> tell you about the dependencies but not do anything else helpful like
> finding and installing the needed libraries.

And you really, really don't what to install *every* RPM on the install
CD/DVD.  In some cases there are 'mutually exclusive' packages (or
pairs of packages where installing both makes no sense, like more than
one SMTP daemon, etc.).  Most of the time installing *both* mysql AND
postgresql makes no sense -- you can do it and sometimes it is needful and
proper to have two (or even more) database servers running at the same
time, just most of the time most people are not going to do that.  OTOH
it can be useful to have a selection of PDF viewers or text editors.

> 

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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread hadi motamedi
On 8/29/11, Always Learning  wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 09:45 -0700, hadi motamedi wrote:
>
>> On 8/29/11, Always Learning  wrote:
>
>> > What happens when you type-in:-
>> >
>> > yum install gimp
>
>> Sorry. I asked and it seems that the GIMP new features just come with
>> centos 6 .
>
> Have you got GIMP in your Centos 6 ?
>
>
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Sorry. My centos 6.0 does not come up with GIMP as built-in . I just
see its rpm on the install cd.
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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM, hadi motamedi  wrote:
>>> > What happens when you type-in:-
>>> >
>>> >     yum install gimp
>>
>>> Sorry. I asked and it seems that the GIMP new features just come with
>>> centos 6 .
>>
>> Have you got GIMP in your Centos 6 ?
>>
> Sorry. My centos 6.0 does not come up with GIMP as built-in . I just
> see its rpm on the install cd.

You do understand that it is possible (and easy) to install and update
software over the internet, don't you?

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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/29/11 8:49 PM, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Sorry. My centos 6.0 does not come up with GIMP as built-in . I just
> see its rpm on the install cd.

so

 # yum install gimp


same as any other package.


CentOS6, I've noticed, installs a LOT less junk on the default installs.




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Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

2011-08-29 Thread hadi motamedi
On 8/30/11, Les Mikesell  wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM, hadi motamedi 
> wrote:
 > What happens when you type-in:-
 >
 > yum install gimp
>>>
 Sorry. I asked and it seems that the GIMP new features just come with
 centos 6 .
>>>
>>> Have you got GIMP in your Centos 6 ?
>>>
>> Sorry. My centos 6.0 does not come up with GIMP as built-in . I just
>> see its rpm on the install cd.
>
> You do understand that it is possible (and easy) to install and update
> software over the internet, don't you?
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Thank you very much for your help. I installed it via yum.
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