[mdlug] Question - bulk aspect modification of image files

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> I'm making a couple of graduation videos for my cousins. One of them's
> due this weekend, and I've got quite a few pictures to place in the
> video. But the software I'm using for videos is kinda brain-dead (it's
> an old Windows program, that I'm using because it does what's necessary
> and the output will be similar to previous videos I've done). If you
> give it a picture where the aspect ratio isn't 4:3, it distorts the
> image.
> 
>  So, I'm hoping to use Imagemagick or something similar to take the
> existing pictures and frame them, set them on a colored background of
> the appropriate size. I'm sure there's a way to do this, and I can
> probably puzzle it out from the man page eventually, but I was wondering
> if someone more familiar with the tools has done something like this
> already?

	identify

        	describes the format and characteristics of one or
		more image files.

	montage

		create a composite image by combining several separate
		images.  The images are tiled on the composite image
		optionall adorned with a border, frame, image name,
		and more.

file:///usr/share/doc/packages/ImageMagick/www/montage.html

I think that for your purposes, the results you want will be
for each picture, create a degenerate case montage of ONE
picture, with a border and/or frame.


	conjure
		interprets and executes scripts written in the Magick
		Scripting Language (MSL).

       convert

                convert between image formats as well as resize
		an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on,
		flip, join, re-sample, and much more.

Take a look at the man page for the convert command.

file:///usr/share/doc/packages/ImageMagick/www/convert.html
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php.