Watermarked images
Remember how I said that I've been working to properly organize my data prior to a full backup? One of the things I ran into over the weekend was a batch of over 500 photos that needed...modification.
In early 2006 I attended an event that was photographed by a professional photographer. At the photographer's website there were small photo thumbnails which, when clicked, would lead you to larger photos that contained watermarks in three locations. I used curl to download everything en masse with the intention of writing a script to automatically apply the unmodified areas of the thumbnails over the watermarked areas of the larger photos.
This weekend I took the time to write the script, and it worked like a charm. I even made sure to transfer the original Exif metadata to the modified images.
If anybody has a similar need, let me know and I'll provide you with the shell script I wrote. It's fairly straightforward, and only relies on ImageMagick and jhead.
5 comments:
It would seem to me that the quality in the affected areas would be significantly less...
So is your face... Significantly... Less...
The thumbnails aren't significantly smaller than the watermarked images, but there is a little extra blurriness.
At least your livelihood doesn't depend on taking pictures. (I think you sometimes post things just to elicit responses from me.)
I pay for things of value, at least until they stop being valuable (witness that I have never bought Lost Season 2 or Scrubs Season 2).
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