I am on linux/Ubuntu and wondering what is the easiest way to add copyright text to a couple of jpeg images.
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ImageMagick can add text to images. It probably comes pre-installed on Ubuntu. An example of how to use it from their website:
convert dragon.gif -gravity south \
-stroke '#000C' -strokewidth 2 -annotate 0 'Faerie Dragon' \
-stroke none -fill white -annotate 0 'Faerie Dragon' \
anno_outline.jpg
This puts the text at the bottom of dragon.gif, creating a new image anno_outline.jpg. There are lots of text effects that you can read about in the convert documentation.
If you are only doing a couple of images you don't really need a batch file, but if you are doing more, say a whole directory, you can just wrap the command in a for-do loop:
for FILE in *.jpg; do convert $FILE -gravity south -annotate 0 'copyright' new_$FILE; done
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Great help. just 'do echo' does not work. You need to modify the batch command to something like this: for FILE in *.jpg; do convert $FILE -gravity southeast -stroke '#000C' -strokewidth 2 -annotate 0 'copyright' -stroke none -fill white -annotate 0 'copyright' new_$FILE; done– wbadMay 14, 2012 at 19:50
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I fixed the command, removing the
echo. I'd put it in just to test that the script was correct and forgot to remove theechobefore posting! May 14, 2012 at 20:13 -
i think it would be nice if you broke down what the command did, but I agree the effect however it works is pretty cool. Aug 22, 2013 at 2:22
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also that the bottom command is different from the top is slightly confusing. Aug 22, 2013 at 2:23
Take a look at Image Magick and its convert command. It'll be something like:
convert -caption "(c) 2012 Mr. Photographer" original.jpg copyrighted.jpg
(Diving deeper into Image Magick docs will show ways to do this in bulk so that you can specify something like *.jpg for input files and the output files can be a variant on the original file name so that a.jpg becomes a-copyright.jpg, b.jpg -> b-copyright.jpg, etc)
answered May 7, 2012 at 15:45
