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Unixscripts-Photos

These are useful in manipulating photos (jpegs). They depend on argp.sh(1) - see Unix Scripts

Photo scripts

Generally, these are required jhead(1), jpgtrans(1), netpbm-progs (pnmscale(1)), libjpeg (djpeg(1), cjpeg(1))

erect-jpeg

erect-jpeg - rotate a photo so that it displays correctly by examining the Orientation Exim information in the file. Uses xargs(1) to parallelise operations to as many CPUs as it can find.

usage for label-photos

label-photos

label-photos - view *.jpg files and prompts for a label for each, putting the label into the Exif comment field. It also recurses through any directories called zoom, applying the same label to photos of the same name.

usage for label-photos

rename-jpeg-by-date

rename-jpeg-by-date - renames jpg files according to the date reported by jhead

usage for rename-jpeg-by-date

resize-jpeg

resize-jpeg - size a jpeg so that the longest side is the required number of pixels and the other side is scaled.

usage for resize-jpeg

shrink-jpeg

shrink-jpeg - passes photos through djpeg(1) and cjpeg(1) which can result in a size reduction of about 50% without compromising much on quality. The amount of shrinkage depends on the camera, of course.

usage for shrink-jpeg


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