Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:36:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Good tool for light photo editing? Message-ID: <20041007083259.X99758@mirrorball.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410061600520.18403-100000@otter.localdomain> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410061600520.18403-100000@otter.localdomain>
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[Stan, 2004-10-06]
> > What's a good tool to do some really lightweight editeing on them with?
> > Mostly I just need to rotate the vertical ones, but I _might_ do just a
> > little cropping on some few.
[John Mills, 2004-10-06]
> ImageMagick (and sibs - it's a collection of utilities, like gcc) does a
> good job of resizing, thumbnails, format conversion, etc. Check the man
> pages for rotation commands - I haven't tried that. It has a GUI (as
> 'display'), is very handy for scripting, and pretty lightweight, too.
If this is images from a digital camera, you might want to use jhead to
preserve the exif-tags in the image files before tampering with them with
ImageMagick.
Regards,
Svein Halvor
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