I have a bunch of png files named as 1.png, 2.png, etc. and I want to create an animated gif image from them all. I haven't been successful in finding a solution for a terminal command that will convert these png files into a single animated gif.
Can someone post some commands that I can try? I have tried "convert" commands but my terminal always says convert is not found even though I have installed ImageMagik.
convert *.png screens.gif
This answer suggested installing convert with brew install ImageMagick.
ImageMagick's convert command works perfectly for this but you'll want to list the filenames in the correct order. Using *.png will jumble frames if the digits don't have the leading zeros because the ordering is alphabetical:
1.png 10.png 11.png 2.png 3.png ...
If you use zsh you can simply use a glob qualifier:
convert *.png(n) out.gif
Otherwise you can sort the ls output
convert $(ls *.png | sort -V) out.gif
If your filenames have leading zeros go ahead and use *.png. Note that the default delay between frames is small, so depending on your use case the frame rate might be too quick. To change that use the -delay option, for example:
convert -delay 50 *.png out.gif
This will set FPS to 100/50 = 2 frames per second.
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I would like to crop multiple images files and keep the same name or add a "_2" at the end of the name.
any idea how to do it?
I tried this
magick *jpg -set filename:base "%[basename]" -fuzz 90% "%[filename:base]_2.jpg"
To just keep the same name use magick mogrify. This works exactly like magick or magick convert but overwrites the input file, so there is no output specification. It is quite simple to use on a set of files:
magick mogrify [parameters] file [file...]
I'm using convert utility from ImageMagick to convert raw image bytes to usable image format such as PNG. My raw files are generated by code, so there is no any headers, just pure pixels.
In order to convert my image I'm using command:
$ convert -depth 1 -size 576x391 -identify gray:image.raw image.png
gray:image.raw=>image.raw GRAY 576x391 576x391+0+0 1-bit Gray 28152B 0.010u 0:00.009
The width is fixed and pretty known for me. However I have to evaluate the height of the image from the file size each time which is annoying.
Without height specified or if wrong height is specified the utility compains:
$ convert -depth 1 -size 576 -identify gray:image.raw image.png
convert-im6.q16: must specify image size `image.raw' # error/gray.c/ReadGRAYImage/143.
convert-im6.q16: no images defined `image.png' # error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258.
$ convert -depth 1 -size 576x390 -identify gray:iphone.raw iphone.png
convert-im6.q16: unexpected end-of-file `image.raw': No such file or directory # error/gray.c/ReadGRAYImage/237.
convert-im6.q16: no images defined `image.png' # error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258.
So I wonder is there a way to automatically detect the image height based on the file/blob size?
A couple of ideas...
You may not be aware of the NetPBM format, but it is very simple and you may be able to change your software that creates the raw images so that it directly generates PBM format images which are readable and useable by OpenCV, Photoshop, GIMP, feh, eog and ImageMagick of course. It would not require any libraries or extra dependencies in your software, all you need to do is put a textual PBM header on the front, so your file looks like this:
P4
576 391
... YOUR EXISTING BINARY DATA ...
Do not forget to put newlines (i.e. linefeed character) after P4 and after 391.
You can try it for yourself and add a header onto one of your files like this and then view it with GIMP or other tool:
printf "P4\n576 391\n" > image.pbm
cat image.raw >> image.pbm
If you prefer a one-liner, just use a bash command grouping like this - which is equivalent to the 2 lines above:
{ printf "P4\n576 391\n"; cat image.raw; } > image.pbm
Be careful to have all the spaces and semi-colons exactly as I have them!
Another idea, just putting some meat on Fred's answer, might be the following one-liner which uses a bash arithmetic context and a bash command substitution, you can do this:
convert -depth 1 -size "576x$(($(stat -c "%s" image.raw)*8/576))" gray:image.raw image.png
Note that if you are on macOS, stat is a little different, so you may prefer the slightly less efficient, but more portable:
convert -depth 1 -size "576x$(($(wc -c < image.raw)*8/576))" gray:image.raw image.png
You have to know the -depth and width to compute the height for ImageMagick raw format. If depth is 1, then your image is binary (b/w). So height = 8 * file size (in B)/(width). 28152*8/391 = 576
I know that image resizing on the command line is something ImageMagick and similar could do unfortunately I do only have very basic bash scripting abilities so I wonder if this is even possible:
check all directories and subdirectories for all files that are an image
check width and height of the image
if any of both exceeds X amount of pixels resize it to X while keeping aspect ratio.
replace old file with new file (old file shall be removed/deleted)
Thank you for any input.
Implementation might be not so trivial even for advanced users. As a one-liner:
find \ # 1
~/Downloads \ # 2
-type f \ # 3
-exec file \{\} \; \ # 4
| awk -F: '{if ($2 ~/image/) print $1}' \ # 5
| while IFS= read -r file_path; do \ # 6
mogrify -resize 1024x1024\> "$file_path"; \ # 7
done # 8
Lines 1-4 are an invocation of the find command:
Specify a directory to scan.
Specify you need files only.
Per each found item run file command. Example outputs per file:
/Downloads/391A6 625.png: PNG image data, 1024 x 810, 8-bit/color RGB, interlaced
/Downloads/STRUCTURED NODES IN UML 2.0 ACTIVITES.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
Note how file names are delimited from their info by : and info about PNG contains image word. This also will be true for other image formats.
Use awk to filter only those files which have image word in their info. This gives us image files only. Here, -F: specifies that the delimiter is :. This gives us the variable $1 to contain the original file name and $2 for the file info. We search image word in file info and print file name if it's present.
This one is a bit tricky. Lines 6-8 read the output of awk line by line and invoke the mogrify command to resize images. Here we do not use piping and xargs, as if file paths contain spaces or other characters which must be escaped,
we will get xargs unterminated quote errors and it's a pain to handle that.
Invoke the mogrify command of ImageMagic. Unlike convert, which is also ImageMagic's command, mogrify changes files in-place without creating new ones. Here, 1024x1024\> tells to resize image to have max size of 1024x1024. The \> part tells to preserve aspect ratio, so that the final image will have the biggest side of 1024px. Other side will be smaller than that, unless the original image is square. Pay attention to the ;, as it's needed inside loops.
Note, it's safe to run mogrify several times over the same file: if a file's size already corresponds to your target dimensions, it will not be resized again. However, it will change file's modification time, though.
Additionally, you may need not only to resize images, but to compress them as well. Please, refer to my gist to see how this can be done: https://gist.github.com/oblalex/79fa3f85f05924017d25004496493adb
If your goal is just to reduce big images in size, e.g. bigger than 300K, you may:
find /path/to/dir -type f -size +300k
and as before combine it with mogrify -strip -interlace Plane -format jpg -quality 85 -define jpeg:extent=300KB "$FILE_PATH"
In such case new jpg files will be created for non-jpg originals and originals will need to be removed. Refer to the gist to see how this can be done.
You can do that with a bash unix shell script looping over your directories. You must identify all the file formats you want such as jpg and png, etc. Then for each directory, loop over each file of the given list of formats. Then use ImageMagick to resize the files.
cd
dirlist="path2/directory1 path2/directory2 ...."
for dir in $dirlist; do
cd "$dir"
imglist=`ls | grep -i ".jpg\|.png"`
for img in $imglist; do
convert $img -resize "200x200>" $img
done
done
See https://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php#geometry
I need to get a specific crop of an image and put it over another image at a certain position and resized.
I can crop the first image and save it to a file in one command and then I can composite the 2 images in another command.
However, I would like to do it in a single command - is this possible with graphicsmagick and how?
Here are the 2 commands I am using atm:
gm convert -crop 1457x973+254+413 amber.jpg tmp.jpg
gm composite -geometry 6000x4000+600+600 tmp.jpg lux_bg.png out.jpg
The reason for wanting this is to avoid writing to disk then reading again when all this could be done in memory.
With ImageMagick, for example, the same 2 commands would be written in a single command like this:
convert lux_bg.png \( amber.jpg -crop 1457x973+254+413 \) -geometry 6000x4000+600+600 -composite out.jpg
I am doing this with ImageMagick for now but would love to do it with GraphicsMagick.
If your reason is simply to avoid creating a temporary file, you can still do it with two commands by constructing 'pipelines' (a great concept invented by, afaik, Douglas McIlroy around 1964):
gm convert -crop 1457x973+254+413 amber.jpg - | gm composite -geometry 6000x4000+600+600 - lux_bg.png out.jpg
hint: note the two - dashes in the two commands, and the | pipe
since the - can be used to mean the standard output and input in the two commands respectively.
This means that no file is created, all should happen in the memory.
You can find this in the help (gm -help convert | grep -i -e out -B 1):
Specify 'file' as '-' for standard input or output.
The use of - is common in unix-likes and must have been inspired by, or by something related to, the POSIX standard's Utility Syntax Guidelines.
Have you tried && operator? Your command should become:
gm convert -crop 1457x973+254+413 amber.jpg tmp.jpg && gm composite -geometry 6000x4000+600+600 tmp.jpg lux_bg.png out.jpg
is there any lightweight command line batch image cropping tool(Linux or Windows) which can handle a variety of the formats ?
In Linux you can use
mogrify -crop {Width}x{Height}+{X}+{Y} +repage image.png
for CLI image manipulation
Imagemagick's convert does the trick for me (and much more than cropping):
convert -crop +100+10 in.jpg out.jpg
crops 100 pixels off the left border, 10 pixels from the top.
convert -crop -100+0 in.jpg out.jpg
crops 100 pixels off the right, and so on. The Imagemagick website knows more:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop
Imagemagick is what you want -- tried and true.
I found nconvert pretty handy so far.
for f in final/**/*;
do
convert -crop 950x654+0+660 "$f" "${f%.jpg}".jpg
done
This script loops through all the sub-folders and crops the .jpg files.
macOS has sips image processing tool integrated. Cropping functions available are:
-c, --cropToHeightWidth pixelsH pixelsW
--cropOffset offsetY offsetH
Easy with sips: just set the offset to start the cropping:
sips --cropOffset 1 1 -c <height> <width> -o output.png input.png
I have scanned some pages and all ~130 pages needs the lower ~1/8 of the page cut off.
Using mogrify didn't work for me,
a#a-NC210-NC110:/media/a/LG/AC/Learn/Math/Calculus/Workshop/clockwise/aa$ mogrify -quality 100 -crop 2592×1850+0+0 *.jpg
mogrify.im6: invalid argument for option `2592×1850+0+0': -crop # error/mogrify.c/MogrifyImageCommand/4232.
However convert did:
a#a-NC210-NC110:~/Pictures/aa$ convert '*.jpg[2596x1825+0+0]' letter%01d.jpg
a#a-NC210-NC110:~/Pictures/aa$
I learnt this here under the Inline Image Crop section.
Notice my syntax: I had to put my geometry in brackets: [].
Using the successful syntax above but with mogrify simply didn't work, producing:
a#a-NC210-NC110:~/Pictures/aa$ mogrify '*.jpg[2596x1825+0+0]' letter%01d.jpg
mogrify.im6: unable to open image `letter%01d.jpg': No such file or directory # error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2638.
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