[CentOS] SERIOUSLY OT STREAM EDITING IMAGES

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