Photo etc

Color channel swapping in Photoshop

This is a little HOWTO (or tutorial) about swapping/inverting two color channels. I will swap the red and the blue color channel using Adobe Photoshop CS 3 to create a more “normal” looking picture with a blue sky on my infrared photo taken with my Nikon D80 and a Hoya R72 67mm IR-filter. I will […]

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Linux

Create a photo collage using imagemagick

I use imagemagick to create index images to my photo albums to get a quick overview without looking through all the pictures. This is how I create a simple photo collage using imagemagicks montage command montage -label ‘%t\n%wx%h’ -resize 150×150 ‘*.JPG’ -geometry +3+3 -tile 3x -frame 5 _Index.JPG

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Windows

Rename image files according to EXIF date

This rename trick can be run in Windows, Linux and even Mac since the commandline program I’m going to use, exiv2, is available in all three platforms. Rename all image files in current folder to the format YYYYMMDDHHMM_Filename.EXT This has been tested on my Nikon D80 JPEG and NEF image files. Linux exiv2 -r’%Y%m%d-%H%M_:basename:’ rename […]

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