How to add watermark to 300 photos in 150 seconds ?

F.O.T.U (Focused on the Unfocused) is the name of my photoblog

I started that photoblog several years ago. Unfortunately, I had to stop it.
recently I decided to publish it again. After testing several photoblog systems, I finally chose PixelPost. (I used to use FolderBlog which is also great but too simple for me)
I liked PixelPost, I edited its default template, but before uploading my photos I needed to resize them and add my watermark to each photo .

I resized all my photos and I added my watermark to all of them in a few seconds
not with Photoshop nor with Gimp ,it would take many hours and a lot of energy using a graphical photo editor, this is one of the situations which a console based program is necessary , I mass edited all my photos using "Image Magic" in a few seconds !

in Ubuntu install Image Magic using :

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

(they have both Windows and Linux version)

then I copied all my photos into a folder on the desktop like "myphotos" then :

cd Desktop

cd myphotos

then I resized all my photos by this command:

mogrify -resize 65% *.jpg

depending on the number of your photos it would take sometime , for me it took a few seconds

you could resize the photo by giving the exact width and height too like this

mogrify -resize 256x256 *.jpg

and then I added my photoblog's name (Focused On The Unfocused) in white color with a black shadow and 22 font size to the bottom of all of my photos using this command :

mogrify -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Black.ttf pointsize 22 -verbose -draw "gravity south fill black text 0,33 'Focused On The Unfocused' fill white text 1,32 'Focused On The Unfocused' " *.jpg

Note that you should give the program the address to font file on your system , (I have marked it in green) in ubuntu fonts are normally in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
(in windows they are in c:\windows\fonts\)

to find out the exact Arial font's address on my Ubuntu system I used this command :

locate Arial*.*

ok we are done ! :)

I add another text to all my jpg photos in the folder ;

• Text is "WWW.FOTU.SHEVIN.INFO"
• Smaller font size (15)
• Another font type (Purisa)
• Orange Color
• On the the top Left Corner

here is the command (follow the colour equivalents to learn the command format )

mogrify -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai/Purisa.ttf -pointsize 15 -verbose -draw "fill black text 5,23 'WWW.FOTU.SHEVIN.INFO' fill orange text 6,24 'WWW.FOTU.SHEVIN.INFO' " *.jpg

Mass editing photos saves your time and more important you get the same look on all of the photos , there are many other things than resizing and watermakring which you can do using ImageMagic you can study the commands on their website .



After doing all this stuff , it was was lovely when people visited my F.O.T.U and admired my photos .

Piling told me :

in fact you have your own style , your pictures are dreamy, mysterious, a bit melancholic. like you in fact !

too bad I don't have a camera any more to take more photos... (if you are Bill Gates or somebody ,you are welcome to buy me a camera . wink)

today I also added some things to this blog's template (I am still working on my blog template)

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