Imagemagick Batch Processing
Imagemagick provides powerful tools for image manipulation. These can be easily automated in small shell scripts or command lines.
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Shellscript batch processing
Some of the following examples use basename $file to not overwrite the original file. Replace it by $file to overwrite the original.
Scale a bunch of photos
This scales all .JPG files in the directory ../mypics to 2048x1536 pixels. Note that the file extension (.JPG) is case sensitive and will not match .jpg files. The aspect ratio is preserved.
for file in ../mypics/*.JPG; do echo $file; convert "$file" -scale 2048x1536 -quality 85 `basename "$file"`; done
Crop out a section of PNG files
This cuts out the upper left 6x17 pixels. +0+0 adjusts the offset. Use -depth 8 to get 8bit PNGs instead of 16bit.
for file in ../my_pngs/*.png; do echo $file; convert $file -crop 6x17+0+0! -depth 8 `basename $file`; done
... can of course be combined with -scale, here with different parameters. ! ignores the aspect ratio and ensures that the output images have the exact resolution given:
for file in ../my_pngs/*.png; do echo $file; convert $file -crop 90x45+0+13 -scale 72x36! -depth 8 `basename $file`; done
Fade in/out
A fade in and out effect for PNG sequences, easily done with -modulate:
# Fade in, 60 frames: i=0; for file in ../my_pngs/*.png; do echo $file; convert $file -modulate $(( ( $i * 100 ) / 60 )) -depth 8 $file; i=$(($i + 1)); done #Fade out, 60 frames: i=60; for file in ../my_pngs/*.png; do echo $file; convert $file -modulate $(( ( $i * 100 ) / 60 )) -depth 8 $file; i=$(($i - 1)); done
Attention: These two examples overwrite the original files.
Processing of multiple directories
Applying the same procedure to images in all subdirectories of the current path:
for dir in `find -type d`; do for file in $dir/*.png; do echo $file; convert $file -crop 24x48+12+0! -depth 8 $file; done; done
Attention: Overwrites the original files.