Update 2016: I still use this script to process scanned photos and negatives. Summary This page describes a perl script that can be used to add EXIF date and copyright values to a series of JPG files. This may be useful to give missing EXIF tags to JPGs created by scanning a photo or a…
Update 2016. I still use these scripts to process photos. Summary Below are three small perl scripts that makes use of the exiv2 application to manipulate EXIF data in a JPG file. They are single loops that can change the value of the meta data associated with a JPG file (the data about camera, shutter…
This is a very short review of an Acer Google Chromebox CXI3 because I found out very quickly why it was unusable for me. Reasons why you might want a Google Chromebox I purchased this computer for my mother to use because of its simple and bare-bones functionality. The web browser is literally the only…
Linux Software Install Easier than Snaps or Flatpacks I have been using various forms of Linux as my main desktop for about twenty years, mostly Ubuntu. This has given me the benefit of knowing which programs I am most likely going to use. There is significant amount of discussion about how software installation should be…
Mostly USA travel photos galleries taken with minimal text. The pictures mainly show you what to expect when you visit a vacation site, rather than just the exciting highlights or artistic takes. Touch a photo in a gallery to get a “lightbox” slideshow. The text (+number) after a heading is the number of parent galleries…
Update: 2024-05. Changed text to reflect my current methods for Debian-based Linux distributions like Ubuntu. Since storage has become so cheap, I suggest you rip CDs in Linux into loss-less FLAC format and use the program SoundConverter to easily batch-convert the files to the mp3 quality you are looking for in order to port the files…
Summary This page separates out the task of adding a watermark to a photo from the longer Perl image manipulation page. There is also a work-around if you are having trouble adding a watermark to an image that is already rotated. Here is the way my watermark looks: Procedure #!/usr/bin/perl -w#2004-10 Kim Briggs#Abbreviated script to only put…
Note:The rename script on this page gives files all the same names with different numbers appended. I have a separate script if you want to rename a jpg by timestamp. Summary Here are a couple of perl scripts that run on linux machines with perl 5 or better installed. I’ve found them very useful for processing…