Convert .png to .jpg with multiples photos how?

[Stray Wolf]

I'm using digiKam and it has batch processes but not one for converting .png to .jpg (that I see). Does anyone know of a way to convert multiple photos (consecutive and nonconsecutive)?

[earlycj5]

I use mogrify for stuff like this.

man mogrify

as an example

mogrify -format jpg *.png

See ​​http://www.imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php for further information.

[mcduck]

I agree that Imagemagick is a great way to do this. (of course you need to install it, which the above post forgot to mention... )

If you prefer a graphical tool instead, you should try Phatch, nice & simple tool for batch processing of images. It doesn't pack all the power of Imagemagick but includes all the most commonly used stuff.

..and there's always the Nautilus Image Converter, which adds basic image conversion tools to right-click menu of your file manager.

All these are of course available from the repositories.

edit: also if you go for Imagemagick, be careful with mogrify. It will overwrite the original images. Use convert instead if you want to keep the originals intact and instead wish Imagemagick to create new images for you.

[earlycj5]

I agree that Imagemagick is a great way to do this. (of course you need to install it, which the above post forgot to mention... )

I didn't mention it because I wasn't aware that it wasn't installed by default??? It's on all of my machines, maybe I installed it somewhere along the way I guess.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Since the post that followed mine forgot to mention how.

[mcduck]

I didn't mention it because I wasn't aware that it wasn't installed by default??? It's on all of my machines, maybe I installed it somewhere along the way I guess.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Since the post that followed mine forgot to mention how.

I guess that makes us even then

It's not included in the default install, but it's very commonly used and many other apps will bring it along as a dependency so it probably ended on your system that way.

[Stray Wolf]

Thanks for the variety of options! I'll get right on checking them out. I'm also going to keep playing in digiKam...I'm sure there's a way!

[tg3793]

Hello guys. I actually made a new post here since my question was specifically about scripting. However as a couple of you sound pretty knowledgeable regarding command line image editing I wanted to throw this question out to you.

The script I am working on (to rotate images) is using jhead and jpegtran for the command line stuff. The reason I am using two different command line image editors is I can't seem to find one that does what I'm looking for well.

Ideally I would just like a command line program that did one thing well "Rotate Images" but with the additional consideration of NOT changing the modified date/time stamp of the .jpg in question.

Thank you for any help you might be able to give.

[katmal]

Hey take a look at this software,
http://www.bestsoftware4download.com...-zcvfhpdg.html

[SeijiSensei]

Here's a scriptable way to restore the timestamp on a file:

FILE='somefile.png'
TS=$(ls -l $FILE --full-time | awk '{print $6 " " $7 " " $8}')
mogrify -rotate 90 $FILE
touch $FILE --time="$TS"

This obtains the extended timestamp on a file and stores it in an environment variable. At the end the file is "touched" with the old timestamp.

[ngrieb]

Phatch: Photo Batch Editor. Love this thing!
not only will it convert but it can crop, scale, create
alpha channels, colorize, etc...etc...on a photo batch.