Re: [Gimp-developer] Asking for help/collaboration in nonprofit mini-project around covid-19

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 01/05/2020 22:40, P. Cáliz wrote:
> Hi all
>
>     I am trying to launch a social (non-profit) mini-project based on the
> hashtag #EstasEnMisPensamientos / #YouAreOnMyMind.
>     I am going to publicly share a selection of my photos (a few hundred, I
> suppose there will be some good ones ;-) ) labeled with that hastag and
> with the URL of the collection, so that anyone can freely send them to
> family, friends, ... Also I will try to involve professional photographers,
> and entities that have their own collections (botanical gardens, museums,
> conservation societies of monuments such as La Alhambra de Granada or the
> Topkapi palace, etc), to contribute with material from their collections.
>     I do not know what success I can have, but being optimistic I must
> expect a volume of contributions that I will not be able to handle by
> myself, by hand. And it is for this that I request your help, perhaps
> someone can make a Script-fu that automates the treatment of the photos. I
> have only used Gimp sporadically to correct the color or contrast of my
> photos, but I have an absolute ignorance beyond this.
>
>     Ideally the script should run in a loop with the following actions:
>
>     - Take a photo from the originals directory A
>     - Adjust the photo to a maximum size (~ 2048 pix vertical or horizontal)
>     preserving the aspect ratio
>     - Add a frame around the image with the bottom side wider than the
>     others (similar to Polaroid photos), and write the hastag (english and
>     spanish), and the collection URL in this bottom border. This is just an
>     idea, I'm open to your artistic suggestions
>     - Export as .jpeg in the modified photos directory B
>     - If possible, move the original photo from A directory to the C
>     directory so that it is not treated again
>
>     Maybe it is necessary to define some additional detail, please feel free
> to ask me anything.
>
>     I will exclusively dedicate a Raspberry Pi 3 for Gimp to fly.
>     Every day I will try to download in the original directory "A" all the
> photos received at youareonmyming scrive org (by the way, if someone knows
> how to automate this, I would be soooo grateful). And also every day I will
> upload all the taged photos in directory "B" to the public album (I'm still
> not sure of the URL, I will probably host it in google photos).
>
>     Any volunteer? Hope yes.

Typically done with ImageMagick: https://imagemagick.org/index.php

Some features:

https://imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/

https://imagemagick.org/Usage/text/