Nautilus Image Converter is a popular extension among Ubuntu users to batch resize and rotate images. While it’s handy, it’s tied to the Nautilus file manager and is not available for users who use other flavours of Ubuntu e.g. Xubuntu or Lubuntu. imgd (read imaged) is a multiprocessing command-line alternative written in Python3. It uses the PIL (Pillow) library and has many more additional features. Continue reading imgd: multiprocessing image resizer and rotator
Tag: image editing
exif: image exif data on Ubuntu
We explored exiftool, a perl utility to view and edit image metadata, in an earlier article. However, it’s bulky and a lighter alternative sounds good. So we looked up exif, a very tiny utility that can read exif metadata and has limited editing capabilities. Continue reading exif: image exif data on Ubuntu
Hugin: turn your photos into panoramas
Hugin is a imaging utility than can stitch images into panoramas. In short, you can join overlapping pictures into one. But Hugin supports a lot of fine-grained powerful operations, more than what meets the eye! Here are some of those:
- Stitching multi-row photos together
- Simulating an architectural projection
- Stitching photos from different lenses
- Stitching flat scanned images
- Stitching murals-mosaic mode
- Perspective correction
- Simple lens calibration
- Using blend masks
- Stitching auto-exposed panoramas
- Surveying buildings
- And many more…
Hugin is multiplatform, free and open source.
Webpage: Hugin
For those who love to play with pixels
If you are one of those people who likes to edit the images and fond of open source software, you have a number of alternatives available. With GIMP being the most well known in the community, there are other options also available like:
- Darktable
- digiKam
- fotoxx
- f-spot
- photivo
- rawStudio
- RawTherapee
- Shotwell
- UFRaw
- Blender (3D content)
- PaintSupreme (commercial but cheap and worth checking out)
Online photo editors or digital art:
- Pixlr (has Chrome webapp)
- iPiccy
- PicMonkey
- SumoPaint
- Kleki
To view high-res images in the browser without scrolling or zoom only specific portion of an image, try Zoom.it.
