[CentOS] SERIOUSLY OT STREAM EDITING IMAGES

Chris Geldenhuis chris.gelden at iafrica.com
Wed Jul 16 21:39:46 UTC 2008


Tony Placilla wrote:
>   
>>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at  3:57 PM, in message <487D013D.9070202 at hogranch.com>,
>>>>         
> John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: 
>   
>> Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have been Googling my head off but cannot find a method to stream 
>>> edit all the images in a directory and to resize them. I have a large 
>>> number of images of up to 3GB in size that I want to put in albums on 
>>> a website, but before I do this I need to resize them to a more 
>>> realistic configuration.
>>>
>>> I know how to do this manually with the GIMP but it becomes tedious 
>>> for more than a few images.
>>>       
>> imagemagick can do this, its a command line batch image editor.  its a 
>> little tricky to figure out.   I note its in the base Centos5 repository.
>>
>> docs on http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
>>     
>
>
> for example:
>
> mogrify -size 480x320 *.jpg
>
> will convert all the jpgs to 480x320
>
> mogrify -size 480x320> *.jpg
>
> will resize everything bigger than 480x320 down & leave the smaller stuff alone.
>
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Once again thanks to all who responded - ImageMagick is just that magic.

ChrisG



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