Photo management with ImageMagick

We just got back from a trip to Los Cabos and on the trip there I took the latest issue of Linux Magazine with us. They had an excellent article on using ImageMagick to manage your photos. So before taking off, I quickly installed ImageMagick on my ASUS eeePC. With it installed, I was able to quickly convert all of the photos to the tiff format and resize them to a more viewable size. Then I uploaded them to flicker so that my family and friends could see them.

The holidays are over and your new digital camera is bursting at the seams. Before setting up a photo gallery on your website, you need to sort through the photos and put together a few preview shots. Normally, you would fire up GIMP, open a single photo, process it, resize it, and then save it, repeating this process until you have sorted through all your photos. This method could eat up hours of your busy weekend.