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Let the GIMP do it, A David’s Batch Processor Tutorial

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Hello everyone. Happy April 6, 2009. I’m glad to tell you guy that I have some experimentation cooking here. This post is a video tutorial, no  audio for now (crap me!), to which I call Let the GIMP do it. This is my very first attempt to make a video tutorial for the GIMP so please bear with me if you notice some noobness. Hehehe. But I really hope you’ll find this helpful and useful for your daily image editing tasks.

Today we are going to learn how to boost productivity when dealing with basic image editing operations on multiple images such as simple sharpening, resizing, renaming, etc… So I’d like to introduce you with a very useful GIMP filter called David’s Batch Processor.

Question. How can I install that filter? Though you may install David’s Batch Processor plugin manually on any platform, I found it intuitive to just search it on Ubuntu’s repository. Yes guys, the scope of this video tutorial is intended for Ubuntu users only. You may easily add this filter along with some of the other useful filters by reading my previous post on Updating your GIMP plug-ins on Ubuntu 8.10. So here we go, enjoy watching Let the GIMP do it, A David’s Batch Processor tutorial.

The image output can be seen at my Flickr account. You may also wanna see the comparison of the original photo vs. the output of David’s Batch Processor. ;)


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7 Responses

  1. Rore says:

    I can’t help but notice that there’s too many “the” in that article. (it’s “GIMP”, not “the GIMP” ;) … yeah I’m annoying with that, sorry. You can’t even imagine my face when I found I wrote “the Gimp” in some old articles, ahah)

    (Now sadly I can’t view the video cause I don’t have access to vimeo videos yet)

  2. Hi Rore. It’s completely fine. Thank you very much for the correction. Some explaination here. The “the” there was not intentional. It’s just an article referring to “GIMP” as something specific. I’m aware on the usage of “GIMP” instead of “The GIMP.”

    I made the video public so I’m wondering why couldn’t you access it.

    Thanks again for dropping by Rore.

  3. starlight86 says:

    interesting video..good work. :) looking forward to see more vid tut from you..

  4. Hi Starlight86. Wow, it’s an honor to have you here. Thanks taking the time to post. I hope I can have ample amount of time to post video tutorials.

  5. Rore says:

    Andrew: I’m flash resistant ;) I have yet to find a software that allows me to download videos from Vimeo. So it’s not a problem on your side, it’s just me that don’t have [and don't want to install] flash :)

  6. Hmmm… Ok. I’ve managed to download the mp4 using the terminal through wget. I hope this will work.

    Code: wget http://helios5.sjc1.bitgravity.com/vimeo/v/160/627/1606272.mp4

  7. Another intuitive way to mass resize/scale images is by using Gthumb Image Viewer. http://www.giannistsakiris.com/index.php/2007/08/15/mass-resize-images-on-ubuntu/

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