Thought these tools may be of your interest: 1. ImageMagick for batch mode touch up of photographs:
There is an image transformation called "Normalize" that normally does a fairly good job of enhancing an image. (May not necessarily yield a better looking image for each photograph though for majority of photographs the transformation is useful.) ImageMagick (which should come by default with most distros) provides a way to do this transformation in a batch mode. If you are interested in processing photos in bulk this helps. (Command for this is mogrigy -normalize See man page for details) 2. jhead, jpegtran Not all softwares interpret the EXIF flag that tells about the orientation of the image. Such software renders a vertically taken photograph horizontally. jhead can help check this flag while with jpegtran you can rotate the image to make it renderable without worrying about EXIF flag. One can wrap above 2 tools in a shell script and use as a pre-processor for photographs. 3. Organizing photos, Slideshow etc I like digikam as it provides a nice repository for photographs. OpenGL transitions etc. look cool in the slideshow. However if your album includes mpegs, they don't appear in slideshow automatically. There are no thumbnails shown for mpegs either. Gimageview is another good software that lets you organize mpegs and jpegs together. But I noticed several problems with it. 4. Creating mpegs of slideshows with nice transition effects, subtitles, background sound if you like etc and burning it on VCD etc. All these things work really well and it's really cool to watch your albums as VCDs on your TV set. I use SSMM for this which is unfortunately available only on Windows though it's free. Haven't yet come across something as powerful as that on Linux. (Wait before shooting at me. I'd appreciate any pointers for equivalent Linux tools. But please do take a look at amazing transition effects available in SSMM before deciding that it is equivalent!) (Apologies for a longish post.) Mayuresh. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
