topic title: Program for creating thumbnails from photos
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jhsu
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
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What program do you recommend for creating thumbnails from photographs?

When I was using Windows, I used Irfanview. What alternative do you recommend for Linux. I'm looking for something that does NOT require KDE or GNOME, as I'm using IceWM and Rox Pinboard (just like many of you).
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#2
You mean just resize (shrink) them?

You can try

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apt-get install phatch
If the command line is enough for you then

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apt-get install imagemagick

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Imagemagick frontends:
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.Imagemagick itself has a graphic interface but it only appears in Debian's menu, not in antiX's full menu. To launch it from the command line try:

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/usr/bin/display logo:
If you're ok with installing GIMP, then it does that as well:
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anticapitalista
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#3
Rox-filer makes thumbnails that are kept in ~/.thumbnails folder
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#4
anticapitalista wrote:Rox-filer makes thumbnails that are kept in ~/.thumbnails folder
True, PCManFM does it too. Actually the size can be set in PCManFM's menu under Edit>Preferences>Screen>Thumbnails size but it won't get larger than 256x256 px
-edit- Also Geeqie has a thumbnails folder (check that please since I don't have it installed here). It's location can be changed in Geeqie's preferences. I believe it has some extra features too. Although it's explicitly made to be only an image viewer and not an image editor, I think it has some extra features (for sure it has editing support for photos with UFRaw).
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#5
Here some tutorials with Imagemagick

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anticapitalista
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#6
You are correct about Geeqie.