You can always re-size an image by opening up an image editor like Photoshop or Gimp. What if you have tens or hundreds of images to be re-sized? If you have ever dipped your toes in the Linux/Unix world, you would be thinking about automation. Here is something to start with.
I use Ubuntu but you can use any flavor of Linux. Install the Imagemagick, if you don't have it already. In Ubuntu, you would do
This would install a bunch of commands. If you are really curious to know what those commands are, try
For resizing an image, we are interested in the command convert. The following command will take images from your current directory, re-size and put them under the 24x24 directory. In this example, we are resizing all images to 24x24 pixels.
Wanna do more with your images? Get all the "juicy" details by running "man convert".
(Thanks to this blog for giving me the original idea)
I use Ubuntu but you can use any flavor of Linux. Install the Imagemagick, if you don't have it already. In Ubuntu, you would do
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
This would install a bunch of commands. If you are really curious to know what those commands are, try
sudo dpkg -L imagemagick
For resizing an image, we are interested in the command convert. The following command will take images from your current directory, re-size and put them under the 24x24 directory. In this example, we are resizing all images to 24x24 pixels.
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.png" -print -exec convert "{}" -resize 24x24 "24x24/ {}" \;
Wanna do more with your images? Get all the "juicy" details by running "man convert".
(Thanks to this blog for giving me the original idea)
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