Photo Editing fo Web Site Recommendations
I have been using Windows XP for a while to put together web based photo albums. So far my process on Windows has been: 1) Copy the Pics from my COmpact Flash Card to a location on hard disk 2) Using Paintshop Pro, browse the pictures, quickly deleting what I do not need, also rotating, cropping and resizing. 3) Then I use album express which generates thumb nails and a nice photo album. 4) I then scp the resulting phot album to my web site for browsing What programs can I use to replace steps 2 and 3 under SuSE? The thing that I like the most about the two apps Paintshop 7 and Album Express are their tremendous ease of use and how quickly I can get this done. I am getting closer to switching over my machine completely to SuSE :) thanks Ahbaid
Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
I have been using Windows XP for a while to put together web based photo albums.
So far my process on Windows has been:
1) Copy the Pics from my COmpact Flash Card to a location on hard disk 2) Using Paintshop Pro, browse the pictures, quickly deleting what I do not need, also rotating, cropping and resizing.
i'd guess gimp
3) Then I use album express which generates thumb nails and a nice photo album.
no idea...sorry
4) I then scp the resulting phot album to my web site for browsing
What programs can I use to replace steps 2 and 3 under SuSE?
The thing that I like the most about the two apps Paintshop 7 and Album Express are their tremendous ease of use and how quickly I can get this done.
I am getting closer to switching over my machine completely to SuSE :)
thanks
Ahbaid
2) Using Paintshop Pro, browse the pictures, quickly deleting what I do not need, also rotating, cropping and resizing. 3) Then I use album express which generates thumb nails and a nice photo album.
What programs can I use to replace steps 2 and 3 under SuSE?
The thing that I like the most about the two apps Paintshop 7 and Album Express are their tremendous ease of use and how quickly I can get this done.
For browsing, try Pixie. Pixie will do rotation and some effects too, but it looses EXIF data which may bother you (it certainly bothers me!). For rotating and resizing I use the ImageMagick tools - mogrifiy being the utility you really need. Cropping is hard, if not impossible to automate, so Gimp would be your best bet there. There appear to be loads of tools in the free software community which will do HTML albums, including Pixie. Whether they do what you actually want is another matter. I couldn't find anything to my linking, so I wrote my own Perl script. It's not fancy, and it only does what *I* want it to do, but you're welcome to use it and/or extend it if you like: http://derekfountain.webhop.org/hacks/web_gallery/ -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:21:36 -0500
Ahbaid Gaffoor
2) Using Paintshop Pro, browse the pictures, quickly deleting what I do not need, also rotating, cropping and resizing.
If you use KDE, Pixie-plus otherwise try gqview in conjunction with gimp or Image Magick.
3) Then I use album express which generates thumb nails and a nice photo album.
If you use KDE- Kallery: http://www.virtualartisans.com/kde/andras/en/kallery.htm There are also tons of non-KDE apps: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=gallery%20generat Charles -- "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)
On Saturday 26 April 2003 05:21, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
I have been using Windows XP for a while to put together web based photo albums.
So far my process on Windows has been:
1) Copy the Pics from my COmpact Flash Card to a location on hard disk 2) Using Paintshop Pro, browse the pictures, quickly deleting what I do not need, also rotating, cropping and resizing. 3) Then I use album express which generates thumb nails and a nice photo album. 4) I then scp the resulting phot album to my web site for browsing
What programs can I use to replace steps 2 and 3 under SuSE?
Pixie.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 April 2003 8:21 pm, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: [reordered slightly]
What programs can I use to replace steps 2 and 3 under SuSE?
I'm in much the same boat as you: I take pictures of a monthly activity out in the desert, and due to the style of camera I have, 99% of the time I rotate it "the same way"; I also take lots of pictures in "high speed mode" which takes sixteen 640x480 pictures in the span of about 1 second. Ultimately, I want to put each month's worth of photos onto a web page, so I considered writing my own "photo management tool" to do this until I realized I was reinventing the wheel. Here are the "pre-existing" wheels I'm now using:
2) Using Paintshop Pro, browse the pictures, quickly deleting what I do not need, also rotating, cropping and resizing.
Konquerer in "file manager mode" will let you browse fairly easily, and by extension "delete". If you find that you tend to rotate the camera "the same way" every time like I do, then I'd recommend creating a simple shell script to fire up imagemagik's "convert" command with all the parameters pre-set. For the "high-speed" sequences, I built some scripts that automatically gather up a series of photos and pass them to imagemagik's "animate" command. If you do something similar, I can post the scripts if interested. For cropping & resizing or other effects, "the Gimp" is a reasonable choice, and I'm sure there are plenty of others out there as well. Again, for the animated sequences, I've used the Gimp to "stabilize" the shot [remove the jerkiness due to the shot being a hand-held shot of something moving REALLY fast... ;) ]
3) Then I use album express which generates thumb nails and a nice photo album.
Again, Konquerer -- at least, with KDE 3.1, this is now "built in". Under the "tools" menu there is [or should be] an item called "create photo gallery". I say "should be" because that ended up installed by default, but I imagine this is actually a "plug-in" type of tool, so it might be possible that you deselected the particular KDE extension if you strayed from the preselected choices. To see the results, visit my page [listed below] and take either the "ROC" or "ACE" links [under "ROC" you then need to go to any of the "monthly launch photo" pages] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+qkLVV/YHUqq2SwsRAtkXAJ92yuvUzrRoNpHhQQtM6TEsFK0kkQCeMMbV H6uuOT0qq7FTjGauLPGQNag= =DztP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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