Image magic is a very powerfull tool, and you can even use the different API interfaces to create web based server side application interfaces that the whole organisation can use. Most IT depratments should have somebody with programming experince that can cook something in Java or PHP or just get an outside consultant!
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We also use ImageMagick integrated within our DAMS system but, as Shyam points out, it does not have a pretty interface. We've fine tuned it to generate our DAMS system images (thumbnails at 160x190 and preview images at 350x470) and the results ImageMagick generates are very good.
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On 1/3/12 4:14 PM, "Oberoi, Shyam" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
We use ImageMagick for a bunch of different automated image delivery processes, especially ones that require conversion of image file type, or batch image resizing. It's free / open-source / incredibly powerful but does sort of need to be programmatically integrated in order to be really effective (there's no decent user interface, for example).
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
Shyam
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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And is there anything that will convert taking into consideration if an image is vertical or horizontal? We would love to batch convert and include sizing down to a specific measurement on the longest edge without having to separate the images first.
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Hi! Would you please outline what these effective tools? Thanks.
Lorraine Underell-Mason
Art Gallery of Ontario
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Hi
To convert imgaes of any kind, there is far more effective tools than photoshop, many of them can work in batch mode. Quite a few are freeware tools.
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to report that we found what the issue was: the image conversion tool will not convert 16 bits/channel .tif files for B&W images.
We had some .tif images sent to us from a German museum which used 16 bits/channel and a Greyscale color setting (not sRGB). We found that if we changed the images to 8 bits/channel in Photoshop that the TMS conversion worked. Gallery Systems has said that they will update the ICT code in a future release of TMS. Of course, we could always use Photoshop to convert images, but using the TMS conversion tool is a standard part of our imaging workflow and is usually quicker than using Photoshop.
And just to throw this question out to the group-does anyone regularly use TMS to convert images? Or does your museum mostly rely on Photoshop or another program to convert images (or do you upload tif, dng or raw files to TMS, and, if so, does that slow down viewing of the images within TMS due to increased file sizes)?
Thanks and Happy Holidays~
Kate
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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:23 PM
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Greetings,
We are *all of a sudden* having an issue converting .tif files to .jpg files using the TMS conversion tool. The tool is found in any media rendition record, under Tools/Convert Images. This is happening to every user at my museum, whether they are on a Windows 7 or a Windows XP machine. We're using TMS 2010 R2.
The conversion tool looks like it runs fine, but no thumbnail images flash across the screen as is normal. There is no error message, TMS gives the usual dialog box "Conversion complete. Would you like to perform another conversion?". However, the destination folder for the converted images is empty/the supposedly converted jpgs are simply not there.
Has anyone else had this issue before? I've talked to our IT dept and also with GS support, but we can't seem to figure out what the issue is. Any DB Config or other solutions would be welcome.
Happy Holidays,
Kate
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