[wellylug] Automation with Image Magick

[Leslie Boardman]

Cool, thanks for all the tips.  I hadn't heard of the python image lab
thing before so I'll have a look at it this weekend.

Actually I am also going to look for away to rename all the images I get
off the camera automatically (I am sooo lazy!) using the date and the
script below looks like a good starting point for that.

I'll post back if I hit another wall or taste sweet success.

Leslie

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:26, Wood Brent wrote:
> 
> --- Martin Wehipeihana <martin at actionit.co.nz> wrote:
> > >>I am trying to get Image Magick to 'stamp' images
> > >>with a line of text. 
> > >>Essentially shadowing the lettering through the
> > >>image.  I want to be
> > >>able to 'stamp' the file name of the image on the
> > >>image.
> > 
> > Have you tried python and PIL (python image lab) ?
> > 
> 
> 
> Done this pretty simply for a webcam.
> 
> A shell script can process a list of files, break up the file names to extract
> the componenets of the date/time, reassemble them into the desired string(s) to
> overlay on the image, then use the ImageMagick mogrify command to writet teh
> text to the image, wherever you want on the image. (I actually used convert
> rather than mogrify to create a new file, with a new name, without affecting
> the original image)
> 
> I don't have a copy, but could prob scribble summat out in a few minutes if
> necessary.
> 
> Basically it was along the lines of:
> 
> 
> LIST=`ls *.jpg`
> 
> for FILE in $LIST ; do
>   #use cut to break up $FILE to get the date/time fields 
>   # eg: MONTH=`echo $FILE | cut -b5,6`
>   #  would assign chars 5 & 6 to the variable MONTH 
>   #  etc  
> 
>   #reassemble the bits to make the total string you want to write
>   #  eg: LABEL=${YEAR}_${MONTH}_${DAY}_${HR}:${MIN}:${SEC}
>   
>   # use mogrify or convert to overlay the text on the image 
>   # with -label or -draw (text)
> done
> 
> 
> see http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick/annotating/
> 
> for a good set of instructions. It even describes how you can dim the box of
> the image the text is to be written to so the text will always be readable
> irrespective of background colour.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   Brent Wood 
> 
> 
> 
> done
> 
> 
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