-----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-----