Trying to find some software to...

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I'm looking for some software that will let me take a 3456 x 2304 and add a
white border at the bottom making the image size 3456 x 2469 - that's
converting from a 6 x 4 ratio to a 7 x 5 ratio. I then want to extract some
of the EXIF information and place it in the white border as text. Easy to do
as a one-off BUT I'm looking for something that will do it on a batch of
images in one hit.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark Itzcovitz wrote:

> I'm looking for some software that will let me take a 3456 x 2304 and
> add a white border at the bottom making the image size 3456 x 2469 -
> that's converting from a 6 x 4 ratio to a 7 x 5 ratio. I then want to
> extract some of the EXIF information and place it in the white border
> as text. Easy to do as a one-off BUT I'm looking
> for something that will do it on a batch of images in one hit.
>
> Any suggestions?

I would do that in a UNIX-style shell environment, using the
command-line tools from the freely available "ImageMagick" [1] and
"ExifTool" [2] packages. ("Exiv2" [3] is also a possibility.) A couple
of lines of shell scripting and you're done.

This method is also applicable to Windows as the same tools are also
available for that platform. However, if you take this approach, you
would probably like to use either Cygwin [4] or GNU Utilities for Win32
[5] to get a "bash" shell or equivalent, since it might be harder to do
in a plain "cmd.exe" shell environment.

_____

[1] <http://www.imagemagick.org/>
[2] <http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/>
[3] <http://home.arcor.de/ahuggel/exiv2/>
[4] <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/>
[5] <http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/>

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znark

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"Rudy Benner" <newsgroups@rudybenner.com> wrote in message
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> "Rudy Benner" <newsgroups@rudybenner.com> wrote in message
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>> "Mark Itzcovitz" <mark.itzcovitz@vistacomp.not_this_bit.com> wrote in
>> message news:bKaZe.33$df6.6@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
>>> I'm looking for some software that will let me take a 3456 x 2304 and
>>> add a white border at the bottom making the image size 3456 x 2469 -
>>> that's converting from a 6 x 4 ratio to a 7 x 5 ratio. I then want to
>>> extract some of the EXIF information and place it in the white border as
>>> text. Easy to do as a one-off BUT I'm looking for something that will do
>>> it on a batch of images in one hit.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>> I believe Irfanview will do all that as a batch process.
>>
>
> Just tried it, its not very elegant, takes some experimentation, but it
> works. I would suggest doing landscape orientation and portrait
> orientation separately.
>
> There are probably better ways of doing it.
>
> R.
>

Thanks for that, Rudy, it will do very nicely once I've worked out the
settings. The one thing that I would have liked that it doesn't do (I don't
think) is to be able to have different bits of the text in different fonts.
Ideally I would have liked the EXIF comment in a font height to nearly fill
the border and some of the photographic settings in a much smaller font.

Mark

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"Jukka Aho" <jukka.aho@iki.fi> wrote in message
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> Mark Itzcovitz wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for some software that will let me take a 3456 x 2304 and add
>> a white border at the bottom making the image size 3456 x 2469 - that's
>> converting from a 6 x 4 ratio to a 7 x 5 ratio. I then want to extract
>> some of the EXIF information and place it in the white border as text.
>> Easy to do as a one-off BUT I'm looking
>> for something that will do it on a batch of images in one hit.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> I would do that in a UNIX-style shell environment, using the command-line
> tools from the freely available "ImageMagick" [1] and "ExifTool" [2]
> packages. ("Exiv2" [3] is also a possibility.) A couple of lines of shell
> scripting and you're done.
>
> This method is also applicable to Windows as the same tools are also
> available for that platform. However, if you take this approach, you would
> probably like to use either Cygwin [4] or GNU Utilities for Win32 [5] to
> get a "bash" shell or equivalent, since it might be harder to do in a
> plain "cmd.exe" shell environment.
>
> _____
>
> [1] <http://www.imagemagick.org/>
> [2] <http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/>
> [3] <http://home.arcor.de/ahuggel/exiv2/>
> [4] <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/>
> [5] <http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/>
>
> --
> znark
>

Thanks for the suggestions and the references. The result may be neater than
using IrfanView but the effort to get to that point is definitely greater,
so I'll try it when I have more time to spare. I may use the korn shell that
comes with Microsoft Windows Services for Unix, or I could make things
really difficult for myself and use Monad, the new Microsoft Shell.

Mark