Gwenview - Photo Resizing In Linux
Until now, if I've wanted to resize lots of photos on my computer, I've needed to boot in to Windows to do the job. I could, of course, resize them all in something like the GIMP, but I'd have to do them one-by-one, which, when you're doing about 120, and you need to resize each photo twice, just isn't feasible. So, off I'd go in to Windows, and use a program called 'Visualiser Photo Resize' (if you're looking for it, try downloads.com for 'photo resize', I don't think it's available anywhere else - not that I know of, anyway).
Anyway, I thought I'd have a look around, and I found a few programs to do the trick. One is KimDaBa, another is Gwenview. They're very similar and both very good. They are designed for KDE rather than GNOME, but that's no real problem. To use the batch resizing, you need the 'kdegraphics' package on Ubuntu, and then it just rocks and rolls!
As a bonus, you can also edit photos to include a border, so you can do a batch edit and add, say, a 1 pixel border to every photograph. Watch out for the photos gracing the photo gallery sometime before October (the current gallery is only work in progress - it WILL change - I need the time to work on it though).
Anyhow, it's another area where Linux replaces Windows nicely. There's really not much that I ever need to use Windows for. I can only think of two reasons:
- When I break Ubuntu (but I could always install a backup Ubuntu installation for that problem);
- Gaming (even with WINE and Cedega, this is a problem, though not life threatening - and I don't get much time for gaming anyhow, although Linux has good games like Enemy Territory anyway);
- Oh, erm... that might be it. Podcasting? I still use iTunes for that actually, although I'm about to experiment with a switch to amaroK (it's KDE based, but it doesn't really bother me).
So what's your excuse? I'm have more demanding software requirements of my PC than most of you reading this. If I can do it... ;)
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mrbenhttp://www.jedimoose.org
FWIW, the venerable ImageMagick set of packages can do batch resizing/conversion/everything else from the CLI.
2006-05-24 15:15:43