Phil and everyone else,

I hope it is not too late, but I think XNView does what you want to do. Well I have used a couple of free softwares, one Irfanview, this works pretty well, small and easy to use. The second one, called XNView (http://www.xnview.com/) developed by Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet. This is an OPEN SOURCE software, so I image this may catch the attention of Phil and maybe ADD some features to the software in the near future.
This software works very nice:

“XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use ! Support of more than 400 graphics formats ! It’s free, so do not hesitate !

XnView (1.70.4/1.50) exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX ”

So as you can see, it does give you lots of options for people with access to expensive systems or the ones that go the road of open source.

With this software you can NAME, ADD TEXT, and CONVERT BATCH of files. The only routine that is not included in the software is to ADD THE BLACK FRAME to the images. What I would like to have is a feedback from other users. I would be interested to know if they are happy with the results of the images after converting raw files to jpgs.

Good luck and I am very curious to see the pics from Ecuador-Gal

Philip, did you ever manage to get a good idea from these comments? If so, have you put together the photos yet and made them available?
Cheers, Stephen

You can use GIMP wihtout going RAW->JPEG->JPEG as there is a dcraw GIMP plugin. See the dcraw homepage at http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

Of course it may not be worth doing this unless you feel GIMP’s JPEG output is better than ImageMagick’s.

First, as a Phillip.greenspun.com & Arsdigita.com lurker for many years, I’m surprised to see you moving away from your ImageMagick scripts that have gotten you this far.

I echo David Burrows’ post.

I’ve had good luck controlling Photoshop with both C# (for the GUI) and Python (for the simplicity). Both C# & Python control Photoshop through the ye olde COM interface. And since its COM then its possible to control Photoshop from Perl.

Let me know if you’re interested in trying out Photoshop scripting with an external language. It’s very straightforward & fun!

Rob Chohan
RobChohan@yahoo.com

So, how are you doing?

You can find good information here for your copyright into the bottom right corner with photoshop. http://www.wildlifephoto.net/articles/emboss.html

You can find good information here for your copyright into the bottom right corner with photoshop. http://www.wildlifephoto.net/articles/emboss.html

you can script almost anything in photoshop with javascript and applescript. its tedious, but once its done its done. i used to have a script like this somewhere that i made for some buddies in the pr0n industry, i’ll see if i can find it.

Feature Tour

Image Editing: DeBabelizer provides a wide array of image editing tools, any of which can be included in a script for batch processing.
Media Optimization: DeBabelizer’s optimization tools provide full palette control and image optimization for single and multi-frame images for individual images or batches.
File Conversion: DeBabelizer provides readers and writers for over 100 different file formats including many hard to find legacy formats.
Automated Workflow: Take advantage of DeBabelizer’s advanced automation features, including batch automation, drag and drop scripting, Hot Folders and Action Arrows.

DeBabelizer will do it if you can figure out the interface.