On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:22:20 +0930, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an easy way to add some text to a collection of JPEGs? For > instance, I'd like to stamp the words "PROOF" across a collection of > JPEGs I'm showing someone to pick out which ones they'll buy copies of, > showing them a full sized, full quality, version of the images, but ones > that they can't just nick. I really don't want to have to hand modify > each image in turn, there's about 300 of them. > > -- > (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. This is what you do: 1) The "convert" program from ImageMagick can do all sorts of image transformations, including writing text on top of an image. I don't know the syntax off the top of my head, so you'll have to look that up. A simple convert -h will show you what it can do. You want to look at the -draw primitive. Better yet, look here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php For instance convert -fill red -font Bookman-DemiItalic -pointsize 32 -draw "text 30,30 TEST" input.jpg output.jpg 2) Once you're happy with the results, do all jpgs in a for loop: for file in *.jpg do outputname=`basename $file .jpg`_out.jpg convert [drawing command] $file $outputname done You can do this directly at the prompt, or you can save it in a bash script. Command line comes in pretty handy, doesn't it?
