Grant wrote:
> Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high
> resolution scan of the album's cover.  There is a new plugin for gmpc
> that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV.  As the huge
> cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that
> need to be cropped, or that the cover needs to be slightly rotated.
> I'd like to be able to edit those images as I notice problems with
> them, but I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
> 
> Any ideas?  imagemagick comes to mind.  Is there a script or even a
> GUI I could run on the HDTV system that might be able to crop and/or
> rotate quickly and easily?

Imagemagick would probably work (man convert). If you have gimp
installed on your mediapc you could always start gimp on that and use X
(depending if you allow X-forwarding in your sshd_config). Otherwise you
could do like Stroller suggests (NFS or Samba).

Best regards

Peter K

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