edivad-suite 3.0.0 is out!

edivad-suite, a suite of script-fu add-ons for automating some
operations in The Gimp has reached the 3.0.0 milestone which
accomplish requirements for running under gimp 2.4. Go to the download
page for getting it.

edivad-suite released the 2.2.1

Released a new version of my suite of script for The Gimp that fix a small bug in the watermark functionality.

watermark for the edivad-suite

Released a new version of the edivad-suite which include a script for making a watermark on the image. As usual it works on opened image, single file or directory.

From now you can also find, browsing the SVN, a bash script I use for sequentially renaming (actually a cp) all files in a directory, starting from a provided number, and a desired file extension.

Released a new version of the edivad-suite

It’s been released a new version of the edivad-suite that will include the printing functionality and fixed a little bug. See release notes.

As usual you can download it, or have a look at the site for more information.

Epson perfection 1650 on Debian etch (4.0)

The scanner epson perfection 1650 (via USB) on a Debian stable (4.0) is fully supported. All you need in order to use it is to run the following packages and the use Gimp for acquiring images.

aptitude install -P xsane libsane-extras sane-utils

Also remember to add required users to the scanner group

adduser <your_user> scanner

[edivad-suite] 2 releases in one day

Today I’ve released 2 versions of the suite: 1.1.0 and 2.0.0. So upgrading to the 2.0.0 means adding the following features

• Added the ability to equalize the raw2jpg conversion since sometimes ufraw seemd to underexpose the image.
• Restructured the menu tree
• Added the ability to dummy-rotate a directory of images.

For further details refer to the application site.

edivad-suite: I’ve done it.

For the happiness of the Internet waste, I’ve released a project in Source Forge.

This project is born starting from some script-fu I’ve developed for automating some photo processing in Gimp. Here is the project home page.

[Script-Fu] case sensitive file-glob

Let’s talk again about script-fu. file-glob is a beautiful function that retrieve all the files within a specified directory with the specified pattern. But if you have to deal with case sensitive file system, soon or late you’ll bump in the problem that *.jpg is different from *.JPG.

In order to solve this it’s enough to think about regular expression. Yes, it seems that file-glob make use of regular expression for file pattern matching. So if you, for example, have a patter like /home/edivad/img/*.jpg and want a case insensitive matching you can use a pattern like /home/edivad/img/*.[jJ][pP][gG].

[Script-Fu] portfolio

I did it again. For the photo training I’m attempting to, I need to show at the final year test a portfolio for the reportage subject.

I have to show 30 photos paged in a portfolio. So in order to speed up the pagination work, I did a gimp script.

This will process the opened image and generate a new file with the paginated photo and a caption.

Here is the code; pdf as usual damn wordpress.

Again, I’m not proof in script-fu so if you encounter something wrong or that can be done better, use the comments

[Script-Fu] webify

Finally I entered also the Script-Fu world. For the photography school I’m attempting I had to deliver to my teacher about 350 photos. posting them i JPG full resolution would have been raving. So I though to my self, why don’t learn a bit of script-fu and do a script for Gimp that will convert a directory of JPG into others JPG of smalles size?

I know I could have searched for something already done but I wouldn’t have learned Script-Fu/scheme.

This is my first script. I surely have not followed conventions and surely it could have been done better. Maybe there will be a time when I will improve it. For now it’s it and it’s working for my tasks.

The script will take a single JPG or all JPGs in a Directory, resize it to a custom size (by long image side), default 800px, convert it to 72dpi and save it with a different name. Leave a color version or a quick conversion to grayscale. This last one is useful in order to have a look for an entire set if it looks better in color or B&W.

However here is the source code (pdf) to copy and paste into an scm file.