Help Resizing Photo Sizes Using Terminal

[nujinini]

Hello guys!

I am currently doing some projects where I have several thousand of pictures downloaded from the internet and I need to standardize their size to 95x86.

Mostly jpg, a few are gif format. Different sizes too.

I would appreciate it if someone can share how I can resize them using the terminal. I have some experience resizing movies/videos but as far as pictures, no experience whatsoever.

Thank you in advance for any advises.

Regards,

nujinini

[oz]

Imagemagick is a console app that should work well for getting the job done:

http://www.imagemagick.org/

ImageMagick: Command-line Tools

It might already be installed on your system, depending which distro you run.

[Irithori]

ImageMagick: Convert, Edit, Or Compose Bitmap Images can be used for this.

An example looks like this

convert example.gif    -resize 95x86  small_example.gif

Of course, there are a lot of options.
Knock yourself out
Resize or Scaling -- IM v6 Examples

[nujinini]

Thanks Ozar and Irithori!

ImageMagick doesn't seem to be installed in my jaunty and I'm having a little difficulty getting it as per my output.

jun@jun-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
[sudo] password for jun: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  imagemagick-doc
Suggested packages:
  transfig
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  imagemagick imagemagick-doc
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 3330kB of archives.
After this operation, 21.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  imagemagick imagemagick-doc
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main imagemagick 7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main imagemagick 7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Err http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main imagemagick-doc 7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/imagemagick/imagemagick_6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/imagemagick/imagemagick-doc_6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1_all.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.169 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
jun@jun-laptop:~$

[oz]

I don't know much about jaunty or its repositories, but if the imagemagick package isn't in the repos, you might be able to use the package from one of the other ubuntu releases, or at the very least you should be able to install it from source. You might try googling install imagemagick jaunty for some howto articles where others have installed it.

[nujinini]

I don't know much about jaunty or its repositories, but if the imagemagick package isn't in the repos, you might be able to use the package from one of the other ubuntu releases, or at the very least you should be able to install it from source. You might try googling install imagemagick jaunty for some howto articles where others have installed it.

Thank you Ozar, I think this did it for me. I have it already.

I am trying to convert

Image Type: jpeg (The JPEG image format)
Width: 125 pixels
Height: 162 pixels

and resize them to 95 x 86 and I got about a thousand of these jpegs.

Can someone please share if its possible at all to do it in the CLI using a *jpeg to do everything in one shot? And also to direct the output to another folder?

Just curious, thanks! Well actually I'm hoping it can be done really

[oz]

Can someone please share if its possible at all to do it in the CLI using a *jpeg to do everything in one shot? And also to direct the output to another folder?

Just curious, thanks! Well actually I'm hoping it can be done really

Look at using mogrify to resize multiple images:

ImageMagick: Command-line Tools: Mogrify

[nujinini]

Look at using mogrify to resize multiple images:

ImageMagick: Command-line Tools: Mogrify

jun@jun-laptop:~/ImageMagick-6.6.7-10$ mogrify -resize 95x86 '/home/jun/Desktop/Folder/Sub-folder/file.jpg'
mogrify: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
jun@jun-laptop:~/ImageMagick-6.6.7-10$

Hi!

I tried mogrify but can't seem to get it right. The error says "no such file" but I am quite sure I have the picture in that folder. In fact I dragged it to the terminal.

Maybe something is wrong with my syntax? Would appreciate any help please. Thank you!

regards,

nujinini

EDIT: I got it already. I executed

$ sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib


A little googling went a long way. I got the tip from this site.

Thank you for your patience!