[PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Apr 23 19:30:31 UTC 2019


On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Ali Corbin wrote:

> It'll take human intervention, to look at each individual image and decide
> whether to rotate it.

Ali,

This I knew. I usually use the GIMP for this manipulation and am glad to
learn that ...

> Happily, it's not too onerous to do this in imagemagick, using the
> 'display' command.
>
> This will bring up the first jpg in the directory as the start of a
> slideshow.
> display *.jpg &
>
> Then you can hit the space bar to cycle through the images. '/' or '\'
> will rotate the image that you're looking at, and Ctrl-S will save it.

And once they're all properly oriented I can use convert's -resize option to
change all in the same subdirectory.

Much appreciated,

Rich



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