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Stephan Kämper: Processing a Number of Image Files – Seaside Testing

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/29

I have a hard time remembering all those ImageMagick parameters, so I was glad that Stephan posted this: [Wayback/A] Processing a Number of Image Files – Seaside Testing

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Stephan Kämper on Twitter: “Another note to self: How I can resize image files using @ImageMagick. ➙ …”

–jeroen

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Online GIF rotator (uses image URL; also rotates JPEG images and caches the results online)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/25

The [Wayback/Archive] Online GIF rotator does not justify the tool enough as it:

  • also rotates JPEG images
  • can rotate an image from an existing URL
  • presents the rotated images as a URL (probably temporarily, as I doubt it stores them permanently because of space issues and possible abuse)

I used it at C13/C14 wiring diagram live/neutral/earth, which originally [Wayback/Archive] had the image from IEC 60320 – Wikipedia: C13/C14_couplerFile:IEC60320 C13.jpg – Wikipedia in original upright position:

The online image editor with this image is at [Wayback/Archive] Online GIF rotator with C13 female cable end that has holes.

The rotated image is now at [Wayback/Archive] ezgif-7-8f95ded85c.jpg (340×600) – hopefully the last link now fails (:

–jeroen

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imagemagick – Command line convert webp to jpg? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/23

For my link archive: [WayBack] imagemagick – Command line convert webp to jpg? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Development, Encoding, Google, GoogleWebP, Image Editing, Power User, Software Development, The Gimp, WebP | Leave a Comment »

Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/09

I used the tips at [Archive.isDigitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP to ensure some sensitive information was redacted from a picture I published on the internet.

dfree got much further than I needed, so I stayed at a Gaussian Blur with an 80 pixel radius which was more than enough to blur out a few rectangular areas but still show the user-experience of the underlying controls.

–jeroen

Source: Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP

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Do not blur, but do randomly add noise or move pixels – Censoring image in GIMP – Graphic Design Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/03

Blurring is like a hash function: it cannot be undone, but with enough plain text to blur examples, you can reconstruct the plain text: [WayBack] Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea | dheera.net | Dheera Venkatraman’s web site

As an alternative, randomly add noise or move pixels. I used  [WayBack] Censoring image in GIMP – Graphic Design Stack Exchange. For the example on the right, I used “Filters → Noise → Spread” from the Stack Exchange answer.

With enough randomness, it is much harder to construct plain/hash combinations.

–jeroen

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Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/21

Interesting tool:

I wrote a program to clean up scans of handwritten notes while simultaneously reducing file size.

Source: Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes [WayBack]

via:

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Animated SVG vs GIF [CAGEMATCH]

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/13

Often, SVG animates a lot better than GIF. Keep this in mind:

Not only should the image be a good candidate for SVG, but SVG should also be a good candidate for the image.

such as:

  • Logos,
  • non-complex,
  • vector-based illustrations,
  • user interface controls,
  • infographics,
  • and icons.

–jeroen

Source: Animated SVG vs GIF [CAGEMATCH]

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Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Gimp

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/28

A long time ago, I wrote about Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Paint.NET.

GIMP does an even better job with these steps:

Once: install the clean-whiteboard-photo script

  1. Visit https://github.com/kyleburton/sandbox/blob/master/gimp/clean-whiteboard-photo.scm
  2. Click “raw”
  3. Hit “Ctrl-S” to save the file as file-type “*.txt” and file-name  “%temp%\clean-whiteboard-photo_scm.txt”
  4. Go to the folder “%temp%”
  5. In there,
    1. select the firle  “clean-whiteboard-photo_scm.txt”,
    2. change it into  “clean-whiteboard-photo.scm”,
    3. copy the file
  6. Go to the folder  “C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\scripts”
  7. Paste the file (you need to confirm Administrator rights through UAC)

The above steps will add this menu option to GIMP: menu “Filters” -> “Whiteboard” -> “Clean whiteboard photo”

For every picture: make it less ugly

  1. Start GIMP 2
  2. Open the picture
  3. With the “Rectangle Select” Tool (R), select the area of the whiteboard that you want to enhance
    1. If the area is not completely rectangular, make the selection large enough to cover everything needed in the final picture
  4. Only when the selection needs adjustment to make it rectangular:
    1. Choose the “Perspective” Tool (Shift-P)
    2. Drag the incorrect corners until the selection is rectangular
    3. In the “Perspective” tool window, click “Transform” to confirm
    4. The selection now is not rectangular any more, so deselect everything:
      1. In the menu, choose “Select” -> “None” (Shift-Ctrl-A)
  5. With the “Rectangle Select” Tool (R), select the area of the whiteboard that you want to enhance
  6. In the menu, choose “Image” -> “Fit canvas to selection”
  7. In the menu, choose “Filters” -> “Whiteboard” -> “Clean whiteboard photo”
  8. Click next to the selection to confirm the cleanup
  9. In the menu, choose “File” -> “Export”
    1. Save the file under a new name (often a PNG extension will give better compression than JPEG, and has less artifacts as well)

–jeroen

via: Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Paint.NET « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

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Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Paint.NET

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/21

Based on a few links, these are the steps I used to enhance the photo of a whiteboard using Paint.NET:

  1. Auto-Level
  2. Reduce-Noise=Max
  3. Duplicate-Layer
  4. Gaussian-Blur=20
  5. Invert Colors
  6. Layer-Blend-Mode=Color Dodge
  7. Reduce-Noise=Max

These are the links I used to come to this list:

Below are the steps on an image I got from The collective awareness | Idea By Window. Read the rest of this entry »

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