Some people ask me why I use Linux. Here is a prime example of a huge time saver. (And I use this). Just one more reason I use Linux.
Often I have a folder (directory) full of images that I need thumbnails for. Instead of opening each image up in a photo editor (the gimp) I usually opt to use the terminal window and run a simple command line command.
I modified the some code I posted previously in another post to produce better results.......... now your thumbnails will be 100 pixels wide and no more than 100 tall.
for i in *.jpg ; do convert -size 100x100 $i -resize 100x100 tn_$i ; done
You can read more about all the cool stuff image magick can do via the command line here...... (this page relates to converting to resizing images)
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/convert.html
More Image Magick stuff
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/utilities.html
Want to flip every image in the directory vertically?? Run this command:
for i in *.jpg ; do convert -flip $i flip_$i ; done
How about flipping them horizontally??
for i in *.jpg ; do convert -flop $i flop_$i ; done
Much more can be done. I've just scratched the surface.
Hope this helps someone, sometime
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