Reducing the size of a photo

[Gilles Gravier]

Good luck scrolling all the way down for my reply.

Top posting is NOT a rule... it's a habit... same as bottom posting.
Whatever. See my response below.

On 1/21/08, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
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> Gilles Gravier wrote:
> >     > http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/gnome/nautilus-image-converter
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> >     Sorry... bit of a correction: you can easily resize multiple images
> that
> >     are selected in Nautilus. Select the image files, right-click &
> select
> >     "resize images". Simple.
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> Gilles please stop top posting.
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> >> Yes. It's just that I have no idea of the quality of image reduction
> >> function in Nautilus... What kind of interpolation does it use?
> >> Bilinear? Cubic? How do you configure it?
> >>
> >> If you are interested in the actual quality of your photographs, trust
> >> image manipulations to an image manipulation program... not to your
> file
> >> manager.
>
> Did you check the packages.ubuntu.com link?  It lists the dependencies
> and shows this utility uses Imagemagick for the manipulation.  I bet
> with a little research you could find out all you need to know to edit
> the scripts which make it all happen and ensure your quality is
> maintained.
>
> Imagemagick is quite a good image manipulation program afaik.


Understood. ImageMagick is a GREAT image manipulation program.

The question is, when you do a rescale or rotate from Nautilus, how do you
specify things like compression level of resulting file? Algorithm for
interpolation when resizing?

Gilles.


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