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18 March 2010
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Create photomosaic pictures with Metapixel

Using an image you want the mosaic to look like overall, and at least one tile library directory, create the mosaic. Using an image you want the mosaic to look like overall, and at least one tile library directory, create the mosaic. If the image doesn’t look like the original vangogh you based it on, try adding scale so it can use more images or shrink the tiles.

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18 March 2010
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Remove borders from image using ImageMagick convert

The easiest way to crop a border from an image is to rotate the image as you chop. It’s pretty much the same way you would cut a border from a piece of paper using a pair of scissors unless you were ambidextrous and even then wouldn’t it be faster to just rotate the picture rather than changing scissor hands.

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15 February 2009
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Convert PDF’s to JPG image files

I hate PDFs! I hate opening the viewer and sitting there, waiting for it to load, then dealing with the pop up asking me to update my software. I wish they were like regular text files or images, and not some twisted mutant hybrid of both with all the shortcomings from each side! So… now I just convert PDF’s to JPEG images!!! I love ImageMagick. It’s just so freaking useful… and free.

Here’s a very simple script to convert PDF’s to JPG’s:

Post thumbnail of Batch shrink your digital camera photo files
13 February 2009
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Batch shrink your digital camera photo files

For those of you still loading your digital camera’s images into MSPAINT or paying hard earned $$$ for some crappy program just to shrink the size and quality to get normal file sizes that display easily and upload faster to your favorite photo sites:
Do it in 1 freaking command …

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11 February 2009
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Batch resize your digital photos in seconds

For those of you still loading your digital camera’s images into MSPAINT or paying hard earned $$$ for some crappy program just to shrink the size and quality to get normal file sizes that display easily and upload faster to your favorite photo sites: Do it in 3 seconds in cygwin, andlinux, or native linux!!!

Post thumbnail of Make a multi-polaroid image out of jpeg’s with ImageMagick’s Montage
23 September 2008
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Make a multi-polaroid image out of jpeg’s with ImageMagick’s Montage

You can take several regular pictures or other image files and put them together into one image that looks like they’re all polaroids laid out on a desk using ImageMagick’s montage tool.  If you have a dual monitor setup you can easily fit 8 across your screens at once without …

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