Re: Thumbnail picking software
On Fri, 6 May 2005 14:41:11 +0100
David Dorward <dorward@gmail.com> wrote:
> Every now and again I take a bucket-load of photographs, then I get
> the job of organising them. To do this nicely I would like to be able
> to create thumbnails of them.
>
> Just scaling the image isn't good enough, some images are portrait,
> some are landscape, so I'd end up with thumbnails of different
> dimensions that don't flow nicely.
>
> I'd also like to be able to pick a part of the image to focus on, e.g.
> if the image is a portrait of a person I could pick their face.
>
> Idealy I'l like a piece of software which would present me with the
> images one at a time and let me draw a bounding box (with a fixed
> ratio I specify in advance) around the area of the image I want. Then
> I'd like it to generate a thumbnail.
>
> Better yet, I'd like it to spit out the filename and the co-ordinates
> of opposite corners of the bounding box on the command line so I can
> pipe it into a script and scale the image on my own terms.
>
> Does anyone know of a tool like this? Or of any libraries (Perl
> modules by preference) that would make it easy to write it?
"apt-cache search gallery" looks like it has a few options. I like
Gallery, since I also put the images on a public website. It has options
to rotate, rename, etc. Apt-cache also shows galrey, which is command
line, so you wouldn't need apache & php.
HTH,
Jacob
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