{"id":15038,"date":"2015-03-31T01:21:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15038"},"modified":"2015-03-31T01:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T06:21:14","slug":"graphics-from-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15038","title":{"rendered":"Graphics from the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This article shows how to perform image manipulation using command-line tools. I do this job quite often, since I&#8217;ve picked up a some digital cameras and now manage a library of several thousand happy snaps. For Web developers and administrators who frequently have to batch-process large numbers of images, command line tools are an especially attractive option, because the developer can incorporate them into scripts. But even if you only want to perform a manipulation once or twice, a command-line alternative can save time.<\/p>\n<p>The command line tools discussed in this article are part of the excellent ImageMagick suite, which ships with Red Hat Linux and is freely available online (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/library\/l-graf\/?ca=dnt-428#resources\">Resources<\/a>). ImageMagick can also be accessed via C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, and several other languages, which Linux programmers will appreciate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/library\/l-graf\/?ca=dnt-428\">Graphics from the command line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article shows how to perform image manipulation using command-line tools. I do this job quite often, since I&#8217;ve picked up a some digital cameras and now manage a library of several thousand happy snaps. For Web developers and administrators &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[104,1354,28,627],"class_list":["post-15038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-howto","tag-image-processing","tag-linux-command","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15039,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions\/15039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}