photo editing

[Kim Briggs]

On 4/22/08, John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So not too long ago a friend of mine was challenged to eat an entire pie
>  in an hour.  He succeeded and I have pictures of it.  I would like to
>  insert a 'time left mm:ss' at the bottom corner of every image.  I would
>  like to do this with bash scripts and/or java code.  My preference is
>  bash but if something is too hard I am sure that I can figure out how to
>  do it with java.  I need to know how to:
>  1) read exif time/date from a jpg file
>  2) take all of those time/dates and calculate time left.  (I can easily
>  do this with java but can it be done from a bash script?)
>  3) turn all of the time left strings into time left images
>  4) super impose time left images over original images and save as new
>  file.
>
>  Oh and to make things easier the images are not all the same
>  orientation.  (Some are 3888x2592 others are 2592x3888)
>  So if there is anyone out there who know how to do any of this from the
>  command line, or with java code, I would appreciate it.
>
>  --
>  -john
>
Hi John,

I think I have the scripts already made for you (almost).  You will
need to combine the EXIF data:

http://kimbriggs.com/computers/computer-software/rename-jpg-timestamp-exif-data.file

with the tagging /watermark script (yes, it uses imagemagick):

http://kimbriggs.com/computers/computer-software/perl-image-manipulation.file

HTH,
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