[CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?

Sat Aug 27 04:34:09 UTC 2011
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

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.



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