ImageMagick is a tool which I have been recommending, installing for many all these years. I even configured many websites to use ImageMagick in their gallery’s for that for years now. But I really didn’t use it much for my own work.
My Canon digital camera which I recently purchased, did allow me to explore many more things this weekend on my laptop. Tools which I have been using for years are really looking brand new after adding a new hardware. (I just told you about Picasa in my previous post).
Its a pain to resize each and every image which I click on a digital camera. I did shoot around 250 pic’s today and I thought I’m really wasting time squeezing these pic’s using “Gimp” Image editing tool. Suddenly I realized that I do know about a software which will allow me to complete this task in seconds.
To be frank, I might have recommended this tool to thousands of people by now but I did realize its power only when I used it for my own photos on console. All the pictures were too heavy to be uploaded onto my online gallery. They were >1M in size. Running the following command in my Image folder did reduce image size to 100k – 200k and resized them all to 1024 x 768 pixels.
# mogrify -resize 1024x768 *
mogrify and convert these two tools provided by ImageMagick are really wonderful.
More Examples of ImageMagick Usage
Try using it for yourself and save huge amount of disk space.
Oh O, yes you can use it even on Windows. Find more info here.
