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Copenhagen, day two
Second day in Copenhagen, first day at Reboot.dk.
More on flickr.
Cool conference, I must say.
Bulk resize images with GIMP
I shot a couple of dozen pictures in Seattle yesterday, and I wanted to put them on Flickr. Problem is that Flickr has a monthly upload bandwidth limit, and my Canon EOS 400D creates 3382×2259 images, but for Flickr a 1200×800 should suffice; therefore I decided to resize them before uploading.
How to do that with a batch process, rather than by hand?
I came up with a nice solution using GIMP (for Linux Ubuntu, but it’s valid for other Linux flavors as well).
Here’s how.
Install the package gimp-plugin-registry, which includes also David’s Batch Processor (name says all).
Now open Gimp, go to Xtns, and then click “Batch Process…“.
Here you can configure the details, expecially:
- which images you want to convert (”input” tab)
- how you want to resize them (”resize” tab)
- the type and quality of output images (in the “output” tab)
- renaming (you can’t overwrite the original files; choose a different directory for output).
It works!
Check them out on my flickr page (pictures have a friendly CreativeCommons license, you can use them).
Lotsa Creative Commons images, for your blog!
I currently write on two english blogs (didn’t I mention www.SecondLifePros.com?) and an italian one, and sometimes it’s not easy to find pictures for the posts I’m writing, expecially because I always want to respect the license of the author (which is, by default, a strict copyright).
A nice and fast solution is looking on Flickr.com (the biggest image archive so far) for images with a Creative Commons license, such as:
- CC Attribution license;
- CC Attribution-ShareAlike license;
- CC Attribution-NonDerivatives;
If you don’t know about Creative Commons… You Should!
Thank to this precious information, I just found the perfect picture for my next post… it’s about Gazelles, but… Well, it goes beyond that! Curious?
By the way, thank to Paul Mannix for sharing so many pictures with a friendly license.
Of course, my suggestion now is: PUBLISH YOUR PICTURES WITH A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE, and make the world a better place.
I will soon do that with my pics.
