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Perform a Batch Processing on Image Files with Gimp
As photography has gone digital, options in editing the images have become endless. Gone are the days when you would use film to take pictures and developing them as they are because you cannot edit or preview them prior to printing. Now, with the advances in technology, there is plenty of software available that let you edit your images so you can enhance them before printing. After a day of taking pictures, there are a lot of photos that you either want to resize, crop, sharpen, brighten, etc. and it takes a lot of work to edit them one by one. GIMP, short for GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a kind of software that you can download and use for free to edit your images. It is an alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Batch processing is one feature that allows you to do a single or several tasks to a number of images at the same time. Here is how.
- Download and install GIMP in your computer. DBP or David’s Batch Processor is a batch processing plugin for GIMP. You can download it at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbpSrc-1-1-9.tgz. Once the software has finished downloading, install it in your computer.
- Open GIMP. When you have opened GIMP, go to Filters, select Batch and click on the batch Process option. This will take you to a window where you can start editing your images.
- Select a batch of images for editing. Click on the Add Files button at the bottom of the window and browse the images in their saved location. Highlight the images that you will perform a task on. The images will now become a batch to be processed by GIMP.
- Select the task for the batch. At the top of the window are tabs of different tasks that you can perform on the batch of images that you have chosen. You can rotate, resize, crop, sharpen, brighten, rename, apply blur and color and change the file format of the images. You can perform one or more tasks on a batch of images. All you have to do is to click the corresponding tab for the task.
- Select the file format that you want to save the edited images in. When you are done editing the images, you can opt to change the file format of the batch, or you can retain their file format. The types of file format that you can change the images to are JPG, BMP, Cineon, GIF, MIFF, PAT, PNG, PNM, TGA, TIFF and XCF.
- Save the edited images. Before you save the images, you can preview them and see if they have been edited as you want them to be. Click the Test button to preview the edited images. If you are satisfied with the output, you can save the batch of images in a specified location in your computer or to any type of external device.
Batch processing saves you time in editing your images one photo at a time. You can even keep the original images for future use. With all the image editing tasks that you can do on batches of images, editing is now an easier task to perform.