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#1 2009-01-15 14:58:33

ironwiller
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image batch converter program

hi. i have a lot of images to upload for online gallery. total space and probably and more later, 1.1GB, which of them each photo is around 1, something MB.
i use archlinux. is there any batch converter program which gives me the option to convert many images together? if not on linux perhaps on windows?
ty in advanced

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#2 2009-01-15 15:06:12

skottish
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Re: image batch converter program

mogrify from imagemagick.

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#3 2009-01-15 16:36:58

arch_nemesis
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Re: image batch converter program

Yeah, I clicked here to post about mogrify. 

It's very easy once you get a handle on what you want it to do (and work out the command), and if you do the same conversion often it is actually faster (for you) than having to click through some interface to select a batch of images and tell some gui-based application to process them.

I'm not one of these anti-gui guys, but mogrify is remarkably useful and convenient.

Here is some good info:

http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html

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#4 2009-01-15 16:37:23

ironwiller
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Re: image batch converter program

skottish wrote:

mogrify from imagemagick.

ty i ve found it.. the thing is that by pressing -help i ve seen a LOT of choices....which one should i choose??? lol
i only want to reduce the file size and the dimension of the photo nothing else...can you help?

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#5 2009-01-15 16:41:12

Xyne
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Re: image batch converter program

Before you use mogrify, you should know that mogrify will change the image in-place. If you want to keep the originals, you should use convert instead.

Anyway, for both, you probably want to use -resize, e.g. -resize 50% or -resize 600x500.

Double-check the syntax though.


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#6 2009-01-15 16:41:15

ploub
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Re: image batch converter program

man convert

beat me by 3 seconds yikes

Last edited by ploub (2009-01-15 16:42:19)

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#7 2009-01-15 16:45:25

ironwiller
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Re: image batch converter program

ty both!

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#8 2009-01-15 16:56:51

Xyne
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Re: image batch converter program

ploub wrote:

beat me by 3 seconds yikes

big_smile


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#9 2009-01-16 00:51:31

amca01
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Re: image batch converter program

A handy trick with convert is to convert all your images to a different file type, say from original jpg to png.  That was you can quickly identify the originals and the new ones.

-A

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