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…
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…
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…
Summary Below is a Perl script that can be used to adjust the brightness and contrast for a whole directory of JPG photos automatically. I searched for a while on using the GIMP to automate brightness and contrast changes, but it seemed too complicated for my purposes. I found one GIMP plug-in already written. It installed, but didn’t…
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…