Scripting

Rotate and rename images according to their EXIF info

This is my short script to rotate and rename image files accoring to date captured based on their EXIF info. You need jhead and exiv2 to run this. These two programs are also available in Windows and only require you to make small changes to work there as well. #!/bin/bash -x echo Rotating JPEG file(s) […]

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Photo etc

Create a photo montage using imagemagick

This is a little bash script I put together to create a photo montage with 5 resized pitures in max 3 rows using imagemagick. The script is run from within the folder I have filled with the JPG images I want to create a montage from. #!/bin/bashfor image in `ls *.JPG`  do    convert -resize […]

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Scripting

Number of shots taken by Nikon D80 camera

The Nikon D80 camera contains a EXIF tag value that counts the number shots taken Tag (hex) Tag (dec) IFD Key Type Tag description 0x00a7 167 Makernote Exif.Nikon3.ShutterCount Long Number of shots taken by camera This can be extracted by running the following command exiv2 -pt picturename.JPG … Exif.Nikon3.ShutterCount Long 1 5263 This example shows […]

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Scripting

Strip EXIF tags from JPG files

Sometimes it’s a good idea to remove the hidden data a JPG file contains, like when you publish picures on the Internet. An easy way to remove all EXIF-tags from your JPG files is to run the command using jhead jhead -purejpg *.jpg

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