[05:48] <InHisName1> Morning
[10:18] <rmg51> Morning
[13:04] <InHisName1> Morning again
[13:12] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys, hamsters and everything else
[14:33] <InHisName> Que Pasa ?
[16:04] <pvl1_> im soo sore
[19:42] <InHisName> I have several photo applicaitons.  Which will be able to change X x Y pixels to 460 x 284 pixels ?    A ImageMagick, B gimp, C Shotwell viewer, D. Shutter, E. FireFox
[19:43] <InHisName> I know one of the non gimp ones did, but I cant find the process to do it now.
[19:50] <pvl1_> i just use gimp, cuz its the only one i know how to use and it can do everything ive needed
[19:52] <teddy-dbear> imagemagic can do it
[20:23] <waltman> imagemagick can do it, and since it's a command like tool it can be easily scripted
[20:35] <JonathanD> I just did this with imagemagick
[20:36] <waltman> If you're comfortable with the command line, you can do that easily with imagemagick.
[20:37] <waltman> actually today I've been writing a new little image cropping tool. in matlab. :(
[20:37] <InHisName> Wow, that sound better than doing gui messing around with each one.
[20:37] <waltman> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php
[20:38] <InHisName> Just when I was about to ask, you answered first.
[20:38] <waltman> look for "Inline Image Resize"
[20:38] <InHisName> Thanks !
[20:39] <waltman> my cropper is cropping the black edges from stem cell images
[20:41] <waltman> We have a C++ program that does that, but it was proving to be too hard to maintain.
[20:42] <InHisName> an auto cropper ?   Or do you get to control what part gets selected ?
[20:42] <waltman> It's an auto cropper.
[20:44] <InHisName> Do your images all have 'boring' borders that are easily cropped by an algorithm without loosing anything important ?
[20:44] <waltman> I converted 543 lines of C++ into 53 lines of matlab :)
[20:44] <waltman> It's really only the ones from the biologists I deal with.
[20:45] <waltman> It's a sharp enough border that you can find it automatically.
[20:45] <InHisName> So, its very predictable what can be cropped from the collections ?
[20:45] <waltman> The guts of the script is only like 5 lines of code.
[20:46] <waltman> from the collections?
[20:46] <InHisName> Not so easy with people / scenery pictures.
[20:46] <waltman> These are time lapse movies. There are several thousand images, but they're all extremely similar.
[20:47] <waltman> though this technique would probably work for any pictures with a solid black border.
[20:48] <InHisName> a video cropper,  spiffy.
[20:48] <waltman> They're similar enough that I only have to find the crop region on the first image, and then I can use it for everything.
[20:48] <waltman> The actual cropping is 2 lines of matlab.
[20:50] <waltman> There's more code to loop over the directory than there is to do the cropping
[20:50] <InHisName> Now I'm done croppng, brighness & contrast boosting, and rescaling to 460x approx 284.  For the moment, until I have more to do another day.
[20:55] <InHisName> Umm, how to enter ImageMagick command line mode ?  (and quit too)
[21:08] <waltman> InHisName: If you've installed it from ubuntu, you should just have to run convert(1) from a shell prompt.
[21:10] <square-r00t> s/from\ ubuntu//
[21:11] <square-r00t> e.g.:
[21:11] <square-r00t> [bts@workhorse ~]$ convert --version
[21:11] <square-r00t> Version: ImageMagick 6.8.8-7 Q16 x86_64 2014-02-18 http://www.imagemagick.org
[21:11] <square-r00t> Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC
[21:11] <square-r00t> Features: DPC HDRI Modules OpenCL OpenMP
[21:11] <square-r00t> Delegates: bzlib cairo fontconfig freetype gslib jng jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png ps rsvg tiff webp wmf x xml zlib
[21:12] <square-r00t> InHisName: might help to check out http://www.slideshare.net/bbbart/getting-started-with-imagemagick unless you're trying to do something more advanced