I'm using Windows. I have a folder with .xcf files, each 100x100px. I would like to run a process that will convert them to .png files making them 40x40px. How can I do that?
You might succeed using ImageMagick which also supports XCF for reading. They also provide Windows binaries. The tool also has various transformation (scaling) options, so you can convert and scale each image with one call:
convert source.xcf -resize 40x40 target.png
I'm not fluent with Windows batch programming and don't have access to Windows PC right now, I think a simple loop would look something like this:
for %%f in (*.xcf) do (
convert %%f -resize 40x40 %%~nf.png
)
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I'm converting about 9000 photos from .NEF to .jpg.
I'd like to retain all EXIF data, most importantly Date and time created, Latidude and Longitude.
I'd like the JPGs to be at the highest possible quality.
I've just gotten started using ImageMagick from the command line. I also have Exiftool installed. I'm using the mogrify command because it handles batches nicely.
When I run
mogrify -format jpg *.NEF
All of my .NEF files are successfully converted to JPGs, but all EXIF data are lost.
I've searched around quite a bit to try and find a solution to this and it seems like I may have to install ufraw, but if possible I'd like a solution that uses software I already have - ImageMagick and Exiftool.
Thanks in advance for any advice you have about how to do this.
Update:
The images I converted using mogrify are slightly smaller (~ 1-2 MB) than those output by my colleague using picasa to convert NEF to JPG. But when I specify -quality 100 in ImageMagick the image sizes gain about 45 MB! Why?
The code exiftool -tagsfromfile %d%f.NEF -ext jpg -overwrite_original . adds the exif information to the JPGs.
Think twice before doing this - you really are discarding a lot of information - and if you don't want it, why not shoot JPEG instead of RAW in the first place?
FWIW, you can use ImageMagick to get the JPEG:
convert somefile.NEF somefile.jpg
Then you can copy the tags across from the original to the file newly created by ImageMagick:
exiftool -tagsfromfile somefile.NEF -all:all somefile.jpg
If you have thousands of images, and are on macOS or a decent Linux/Unix-based OS, I would recommend GNU Parallel like this and it will keep busy all those lovely cores that you paid Intel so dearly for:
parallel --dry-run 'convert {} {.}.jpg; exiftool -tagsfromfile {} -all:all {.}.jpg' ::: *nef
Sample Output
convert a.nef a.jpg; exiftool -tagsfromfile a.nef -all:all a.jpg
convert b.nef b.jpg; exiftool -tagsfromfile b.nef -all:all b.jpg
and if that looks good remove the --dry-run so it actually runs the command.
If you are on Windows, you will have to do some ad-hoc jiggery-pokery to get it done in any reasonable time frame. You can use the mogrify command and get all the conversions done to JPEG and then do all the exiftool re-embedding of the EXIF data later. If your files are named with some sort of system with incrementing numbers, you can start two or three copies of mogrify in parallel - say one doing files whose names end in [0-4] and another one doing files whose names end in [5-9]. I don't speak Windows, but that would probably look like these two commands each running in its own Command Prompt:
mogrify -format jpg *0.NEF *1.NEF *2.NEF *3.NEF *4.NEF
mogrify -format jpg *5.NEF *6.NEF *7.NEF *8.NEF *9.NEF
Then you would do the exiftool stuff when they had all finished but you would have to use a FOR loop like this:
FOR %%G IN (*.NEF) DO (
exiftool -tagsfromfile %%G -all:all %%~dpnG.jpg
)
The %%~dpnG part is a guess based on this answer.
Based on this question for imagemagick, what is the equivalent for graphicsmagick? Recipe for creating Windows ICO files with ImageMagick?
Also I just want to generate a fully transparent ico file with multiple sizes. I found that there's an xc:none option that works for both, but is there one single command that generates ico files with multiple sizes that is transparent? Otherwise I would have to first create a transparent png file, then create ico files from the png file.
AFAIK, GraphicsMagick doesn't support writing ICO format files - see here.
Just in case anyone knows more about this mad Microsoft format and if it is maybe some sort of multi-page TIF or GIF in disguise that just needs to be renamed, the following would be one way of making a recipe in GraphicsMagick:
#!/bin/bash
{ echo convert image.png mpr:initial;
echo convert mpr:initial -resize 16x16 mpr:16;
echo convert mpr:initial -resize 32x32 mpr:32;
echo convert mpr:initial -resize 48x48 mpr:48;
echo convert mpr:initial -resize 64x64 mpr:64;
echo convert mpr:16 mpr:32 mpr:48 mpr:64 -colors 256 favicon.tif; } | gm batch -prompt off
For the moment, I have created a multi-page TIF as the output file and it contains the four sizes you need - but as I said, GraphicsMagick will not write a ICO file.
I am trying to change a file named "anvil_base.png" to grayscale so I am using imagemagick. What I am entering is convert anvil_base.png -colorspace Gray -gamma 2.2 anvil_base.png
but it is just returning this
Invalid Parameter - -colorspace
What am I doing wrong?
I suspect you are on Windows and you have not put the directory where ImageMagick is installed ahead of other directories in your PATH. You have three choices:
Option 1
As Glenn kindly points out, if you are using ImageMagick version 7 or newer, you can use the new name for convert which is magick, like this:
magick image.png -colorspace gray ...
Option 2
Use the full path to ImageMagick every time, something like this:
C:\ImageMagick-6.9.3\convert ...
Option 3
Change your PATH. So you would need to do:
Start->Programs->Control Panel->System->Advanced
and then choose Environment Variables and change PATH so that it looks like:
PATH=C:\ImageMagick-6.9.3;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32
The main thing is that ImageMagick directory is at the start of the PATH. Then Windows will find the convert which is part of ImageMagick before it finds the built-in Windows convert program which converts FAT filesystems to NTFS. If you choose Option 3 above, you need to either log out and back in again, or start a new Command Prompt for the new PATH to become active.
I am trying to convert multiple .eps files into .jpg ones. By looking at answers here in SO, I was able to do it for single separate files.
The problem is that, when I'm trying to do it for all the files, they don't show any .jpg file.
I am currently using Imagemagick with the command
convert -density 300 outputs-000.eps -flatten outputs-000.jpg
I believe the problem is because my files are written as
outputs-000.eps
outputs-001.eps
outputs-002.eps
outputs-003.eps
...
outputs-145.eps
...
and so on. I tried putting %d (as in outputs-%d.eps and outputs-%d.jpg), but with no success.
Apart from that, I intent to get all those files and "convert" them into an .mkv or .gif or similar type (they are images of the time configuration of a particle collision system, so each image is a frame, so the goal is to make it into a 10sec movie). If there is a way to do that directly from the .eps, even better. Any help is welcome, since I've been trying to do this for several hours now. Thank you.
You should be able to make an animated GIF in one go like this:
convert -density 300 outputs-*eps -delay 200 animated.gif
Failing that, you should be able to convert all your eps files to, say PNG with:
mogrify -density 300 -format png outputs-*eps
Be careful with mogrify - it overwrites your input files unless you specify -path for an output directory, or you change format - like I just did to PNG.
For anyone who lands here trying to figure out how to work around ImageMagic's convert: not authorized without reverting the change that was made to the system-wide security policy to close a vulnerability, here's how you'd use Ghostscript to do a batch EPS-to-JPEG conversion directly without bringing ImageMagick into the mix:
gs -dSAFER -dEPSCrop -r300 -sDEVICE=jpeg -o outputs-%03d.jpg outputs-*.eps
-dSAFER puts Ghostscript in a sandboxed mode where Postscript code can only interact with the files you specified on the command line. (Yes, the parts of EPS, PS, and PDF files that define the page contents are in a turing-complete programming language.)
-dEPSCrop asks for the rendered output to be cropped to the bounding box of the drawing rather than padded out to whatever size page Ghostscript expects you to be printing to. (See the manual for details.)
The -r300 requests 300 DPI (-r600 for 600 DPI, etc.)
The -sDEVICE specifies the output format (See the Devices section of the manual for other choices.)
-o is a shorthand for -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=
This section of the Ghostscript manual gives some example formats for for multi-file filename output but, for the actual syntax definition, it points you at the documentation for the C printf(3) function.
Once you've got your JPEGs, you can follow the instructions in this answer over on the Video Production Stack Exchange to combine them into an MKV file.
The TL;DR is this command here:
ffmpeg -framerate 30 -i outputs-%03d.jpg -codec copy output.mkv
Check out the other answers if you want something that performs inter-frame compression rather than aiming to avoid transcoding the JPEGs again.
(If you want the best compromise, have Ghostscript output PNGs and then let ffmpeg handle switching to lossy compression.)
Is there anyway (commandline tools) to calculate MD5 hash for .NEF (also .CR2, .TIFF) regardless any metadata, e.g. EXIF, IPTC, XMP and so on?
The MD5 hash should be same once we update any metadata inside the image file.
I searched for a while, the closest solution is:
exiftool test.nef -all= -o - -m | md5
but 'exiftool -all=' still keeps a set of EXIF tags in the output file. The MD5 hash can be changed if I update remaining tags.
ImageMagick has a method for doing exactly this. It is installed on most Linux distros and is available for OSX (ideally via homebrew) and also Windows. There is an escape for the image signature which includes only pixel data and not metadata - you use it like this:
identify -format %# _DSC2007.NEF
feb37d5e9cd16879ee361e7987be7cf018a70dd466d938772dd29bdbb9d16610
I know it does what you want and that the calculated checksum does not change when you modify the metadata on PNG files for example, and I know it does calculate the checksum correctly for CR2 and NEF files. However, I am not in the habit of modifying RAW files such as you have and have not tested it does the right thing in that case - though I would be startled if it didn't! So please test before use.
The reason that there is still some Exif data left is because the image data for a NEF file (and similar TIFF based filetypes) is located within that Exif block. Remove that and you have removed the image data. See ExifTool FAQ 7, which has an example shortcut tag that may help you out.
I assume your intention is to verify the actual image data has not been tampered with.
An alternate approach to stripping the meta-data can be to convert the image to a format that has no metadata.
ImageMagick is a well known open source (Apache 2 license) for image manipulation and conversion. It provides libraries with various language bindings as well as command line tools for various operating systems.
You could try:
convert test.nef bmp:- | md5
This converts test.nef to bmp on stdout and pipes it to md5.
AFAIR bmp has no support for metadata and I'm not sure if ImageMagick even preserves metadata across conversions.
This will only work with single image files (i.e. not multi-image tiff or gif animations). There is also the slight possibility some changes can be made to the image which result in the same conversion because of color space conversions, but these changes would not be visible.