PhotoPrint

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:

>after taking a look at the homepage via the Ubuntu package search
>link provided by Little Girl, Gimp isn't what the OP is looking for.
>
>"PhotoPrint can do the following:
>
>    Print photographs 1-up, 2-up, 4-up or with any user-selectable
>    number of rows and columns.
>    Create posters, split over several pages.
>    Arrange images into a sort of Carousel, fading from one to
> another. (Ideal for CD labels)
>    Crop images to fit a specific frame.
>    Apply a decorative border to an image.
>    Make use of ICC colour profiles to provide accurate output.
>    Send 16-bit data to the printer, to avoid "contouring" problems
> in smooth gradients.
>    Apply a handful of effecs to an image, including sharpening,
>    removing colour and adjusting colour temperature (ideal for
> cooling or warming black-and-white prints)." -
>http://blackfiveimaging.co.uk/index.php?article=02Software%2F01PhotoPrint

This sounds like a job for ImageMagick, which is a free and
open-source program available in the Ubuntu repositories. I don't see
anything on that list above that ImageMagick can't do. And as a
bonus, it does a whole lot more, too.

The ImageMagick folks aren't too great at showing off what they've
got in a way that will wow you, but you can get a lot of information
on their website. Like on this page, for example:

https://imagemagick.org/Usage/basics

I recommend looking for blog posts and videos made by people who are
excited about it and will show it to you in action. But most of all,
I highly recommend trying it for yourself

All I can say is OMG, OMG, OMG. ImageMagick is incredible. Exploring
it is a huge rabbit-hole to go down into and it's usually a very long
time before anyone who does so comes up for air. It's simply amazing
what-all it can do.

-- 
Little Girl

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