Alright, so I decided to mess around with “gunter parche” today. It sounded kinda cool, and I figured, why not?
First, I tried to find out what it is. I mean, the name itself doesn’t give away much. It was some hit-and-miss searching with different word, and eventually, I figured out,it is about ImageMagick.
Getting Started
My machine’s already got ImageMagick. So, I moved straight to playing with it.
- Checked the *,I type the command
convert -versionin my terminal. - Made sure the installtion worked.
The messing around part
I grabbed a random picture from my * is my dog.I named it to .I just wanted to see what could be done.
I started simple, resizing the image:
I typed convert * -resize 50% dog_* into the terminal. Boom! I got a smaller version of my dog’s picture, now named “dog_*”.
Next, I tried rotating it:
convert * -rotate 45 dog_*. Easy peasy. Now I had a picture of a dog, but sideways. Named it”dog_*”.
Then I thought, “Let’s get fancy” and added a border:
convert * -bordercolor blue -border 10x10 dog_*. Okay, the blue border was a bit much, but hey, it worked!It’s “dog_*”.
I even converted it to grayscale:
convert * -colorspace Gray dog_*. Now my colorful dog looked like it was from an old * is called “dog_*”.
Wrapping Up
I only scratched the surface, really. It’s a tool you could spend a whole time mastering it . But for a quick afternoon experiment, it was pretty fun. I resized, rotated, bordered, and grayscaled a picture of my dog, and it all worked without any major headaches.
Maybe I’ll try some more complex stuff with it, or maybe I’ll just stick to resizing pictures. Who knows. But at least now I have some idea and pratice of what is it, and I know I can make my dog’s picture look a little different if I ever get bored.
