That's great to hear! You may also want to take a look at gphoto, an app
designed specifically for digital cameras.
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:07:47 -0500, Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not usually the cheerleader type, but here goes.
>
> One of the things that prevented me from making the jump to an all-Linux
> machine was that I assumed I would have problems downloading pictures from
> my digital camera to my computer (10 minutes on comp.os.linux.hardware
> solved that), and I was also worried about finding an application that
> would allow me to view and manipulate the images easily. I was aware of
> GIMP, but I could never quite get into the scripting to do batch
> processing.
>
> I just discovered ImageMagick, jhead, and Gallery. With ImageMagick, I can
> resize (mogrify) an entire folder full of images. I can also create a
> contact sheet (tiled thumbnails) of the directory. I use Jhead to rename
> the images according to the date, which is taken from the exif data. I
> also use jhead to write all the exif data to a text file.
>
> Now I can take a folder full of pics, rename them, copy them to a new
> folder, and resize them using a simple shell script I wrote. Then I zip
> them up and upload them to my web-based photo gallery run by Gallery
> 1.2.5. This is way easier than when I was running Windows. Perhaps I could
> have done the same thing, but I would not have known where to begin.
>
> If only I could figure out how to do color adjustments in batch, as my
> camera gives a slightly reddish cast to images, I would be totally
> satisfied.
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