[Digikam-users] questions about using RAW format...

[Alexandre Racine]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:38 PM, gerlos <gerlosgm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Alexandre Racine ha scritto:
> > Currently I just used irfanview (with Wine) to convert them to JPG,
>
> But... isn't it extremely slow and clumsy?
> Isn't it a lot easier using "save as" or that tools in the batch menu of
> Digikam to do just this thing? Or, even better, shouldn't be easier use
> some bash black magic ;-) together with ImageMagick?
>


Hi,

Yeah it is kind of slow with irfanview, but for JPGS it is fast. So I'll try
the batch mode in digikam.

There is just one problem. When I select a picture or multiple pictures,
there is nothing in the batch menu. No menu...  I am using the 0.9.4 version
in Ubuntu 8.10.

Is there something I do wrong???


I love batch commands for servers, but I'll stick to graphic when I am
playing with graphics ;)


Thanks all for the other suggestions.





>
> For example, to convert to jpg every png image in the current directory
> you just need something like:
> for image in `ls *.png`
> do
>    convert $image $image.jpg
> done
>
> Just put these lines in a script, and conversions won't be a problem any
> more. Ok, it's a stupid example, but believe me, you can do a lot
> smarter things!
>
>
> And also you can do a lot of interesting things using *.desktop files in
> KDE and/or konqueror (so, once setup, without the terminal!).
> For example, put these lines in a text file, let's say, "resize.desktop":
> |[Desktop Entry]
> Comment=Resize images to 1024 px, and put a copy on the Desktop
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Exec[$e]=convert -size 1024x1024 %f -resize 1024x1024 `basename %f `
> GenericName=Resize images for the Web
> Icon=filter
> Name=||Resize images for the Web|
> |Path[$e]=$HOME/Desktop
> Type=Application|
>
> When you drag any image or any group of images from any program like
> Digikam or konqueror or dolphin on the icon of "resize.desktop", after a
> while you will get on you Desktop a copy of each image, rescaled so that
> the larger border will be 1024 px. Just drag and drop. Easy!
>
> Another example? This one convert any dropped image to jpg and put it on
> the Desktop:
> |[Desktop Entry]
> Comment=Convert image to jpg, and put a copy on the Desktop
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Exec[$e]=convert %f `basename %f `.jpg
> GenericName=||Convert image to jpg|
> |Icon=filter
> Name=Convert image to jpg|||
> | Path[$e]=$HOME/Desktop
> Type=Application|
>
> Obviously, to make things easy (sorry, I can't know if you know the
> command line) I didn't add some more interesting features, like
> manipulating the base name of the image or changing the jpg quality, or
> just play a sound notification when processing end! Once you work with
> the command line for a while you'll figure how to do these "esoteric"
> things! ;-)
>
> Jus ask google about "KDE service menu" for more.
>
> > but I
> > have no intention du put Photophop on my Linux/GNU/Ubuntu box.
> >
>
> I think that once you know a little more gnu/linux you won't feel the
> need to use Photoshop any more. You can do almost everything with
> Digikam, and if it isn't sufficient for you, there's always Gimp! (Now
> it is starting to support 32 bit image processing, great!) or Krita!
>
> regards
> gerlos
>
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