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 <directory_name> 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.