Image Magic Redmond Style
Posted: 08 Jul 2014, 17:46
Thanks to v60's tips I have come up with some Windows based image magic of my own. 
I found Exif Tool by Phil Harvey which I use to get rid of information put in to images by my camera. I usually take fewer than a dozen photos at a time so to make it easy on myself I made a "Send To" shortcut so I could quickly remove EXIF information from within an Explorer window. In C:\Documents and Settings\User\SendTo I created a shortcut called EXIF Remover
This will work on individual images as well as recursively if you run it on a folder... it also adds in some [XP specific] smartass comments in case anyone is trying to scrape the metadata off my images. Then of course there is ImageMagick... pretty chubby at 120MB but I haven't seen a better way to do v60's cute rounded corner trick. I created a batch file C:\path\round_corner.bat that looks like this
and then made a shortcut to it in my "Send To" folder. Obviously it creates a new PNG image that is renamed after the original with "_rounded.png" on the end of the name. Careful, this photo is funny.
Have fun folks,
Snork.
I found Exif Tool by Phil Harvey which I use to get rid of information put in to images by my camera. I usually take fewer than a dozen photos at a time so to make it easy on myself I made a "Send To" shortcut so I could quickly remove EXIF information from within an Explorer window. In C:\Documents and Settings\User\SendTo I created a shortcut called EXIF Remover
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%windir%\exiftool.exe -r -overwrite_original -all= -IFD0:XPAuthor="Snorkasaurus" -IFD0:XPComment="Metadata scrapers are douchebags."
This will work on individual images as well as recursively if you run it on a folder... it also adds in some [XP specific] smartass comments in case anyone is trying to scrape the metadata off my images. Then of course there is ImageMagick... pretty chubby at 120MB but I haven't seen a better way to do v60's cute rounded corner trick. I created a batch file C:\path\round_corner.bat that looks like this
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convert %1 -alpha set -virtual-pixel transparent -channel A -blur 0x8 -threshold 50%,100% +channel %1_rounded.pngand then made a shortcut to it in my "Send To" folder. Obviously it creates a new PNG image that is renamed after the original with "_rounded.png" on the end of the name. Careful, this photo is funny.
Have fun folks,
Snork.
Same trick in Windows and in Linux - no discrimination.