photo collage S/W required please.
 

Please can someone point me in the right direction, to a linux app that allows me to take an image (jpeg), make the image a standard print size (e.g. 8x10 or 7x5 inch etc.) and arrange multiple copies of that image at that size, on A4 glossy paper. In effect giving a collage effect.

The images will be cut out of the paper and put into standard print frames for display within our home.

Thanks in advance.

p.s. I have tried the following so if I may, can I ask you please do not suggest them. Thanks ;)

album - could not get this to do anything other than scan a directory. Didnt like this.

photoprint - lite and responsive but does not allow images to be specific print frame sizes. It simply creates a grid of rows/columns and fills the paper up.

f-spot - can set up the image to be a standard print frame size, but doesnt do collages. i.e. only 1 image to a page.

gnome-photo-print - cannot get the printer dialog when clicking "print" so cant change the printer default settings from "draft" quality to "photo". Can do this by logging as "root" but I want the family to be able to use the app and not use "root" !!!

man montage (if ImageMagick is installed).




Cheers,
Tink

Thanks.

Tried that.

I dont understand the program and it lacks a WYSIWYG GUI (which I need!!)

Any more hints???

Sad ...

gimp?


Cheers,
Tink

Gimp doesnt do that either....

Sad!

Which aspect of this does gimp not do? You can rescale images by size
(e.g. 11x5inch)... you can copy&paste an entire image... you can define
a new image of a given size.

All you need to do is to paste them, and then place the frame(s) on your
new target image ... and print it when done.

If you want full automation GUI & WYSIWYG makes no sense... what do you
"really want"?


/me shrugs...



Cheers,
Tink

Okay, if GIMP can do this then I haven't been able to find out how in 4 hours of "play".

Sorry T, I should clarify what I need.

Here goes, simple...


I've got hundreds of family photo images, lots of sheets of A4 glossy paper and a great EpsonPhoto R800 printer.

I want to arrange (with a GUI) as many images of standard photo size (e.g. 7x5, 8x10 etc.) on a sheet of A4 glossy (a montage or collage) then cut them out and mount them in frames.

I know the number of images I can get on a sheet depends on the frame size, but I havent managed to find a simple app that does this.

Photoprint came close but it does not reatin images at the frame size (7x5 8x10 etc). Instead it simply reduces the images so that extra row/columns can be added.

Does that explain it?

So the images already HAVE those dimensions?

Given the fact that A4 = 29.7x21cm, and the dimensions your images
have 8x10 = ( 20.32 x 25.4 cm ) and 5x7 ( 12.7 x 17.78 cm ) you
won't be able to fit more than one of the larger ones and two of
the smaller ones on one sheet (unless you want to resize them).



Cheers,
Tink

NO!
NO!
NO!

Its DEAD simple.

1. I have lots of images. To make it simple lets say theay are all taken by a digicam at 1280x1024 resolution. Lets just say that they are all JPG and 1280x1024 pixels. Thats all we are assuming.
2. Okay, dead simple: I have lots of A4 sheets.
3. Lets say I take just ONE image from the many, and we'll call that IMAGE-1, for simplicity.
4. Lets say I take a set of empty picture frames. Today I'm going to use all my 7x5 empty frames.
5. Lets take IMAGE-1 and say okay, I want to print as many copies of IMAGE-1 as I can fit on a single sheet of A4, cut them out individually and stick them in my frames, 1 by 1 until I either run out of copies or run out of frames! Simple!

Question:

What software exists, if any, that allows a user to very simply and quickly achieve this. What is the SIMPLEST and QUICKEST way to accomplish this?



Sure Gimp can do it, but its not designed for this specific simple task and is overly complex than I need.

I have HUNDREDS of images and need to do this efficiently.

Thanks T.

So are those images all of the same resolution and orientation?


I still think that (with little preparation) ImageMagick is the tool
for the job. ;}



Cheers,
Tink

No T, they are not.

I was just keeping it simple (like me!)

ImageMagik is a command line set of tools .... easy fella, I'm not into hardcore yet !!

The problem is that in cases like this simplicity
(if simple means w/o applying much thought) is
diametrically opposed to efficiency ...

Two last questions though (before I get shell-scripting ;}):
Will all those photos end up in frames individually?
Do you want to manually decide which go in the larger
frames?




Cheers,
Tink

Hi T

To respond (in algorithmic fashion):

One photo per frame.

I may use a single photo for a single frame of a given size.

I may use a single photo for any sizes of multiple frames.

I want to manually decide which photo goes in which frame.


Thanks,
D

(Jeez I wish I could program this in some fancy language - my only experience is embedded systems: using C, C++, Ada, MC680x0, 6502, x86. I dont know $hit about perl, X, tcl, gtk blah blah.

I created a OpenOffice template and just insert the images I want into the different sections of the template. Then I print the page. Four different images, all the same size, on one page. Cut them out and stick them in a frame/album.

So long as you take a bit of time to set up the template it's a simple case of sticking the images into the correct template.

Well it worked for me, so I'm happy.

Ah-ha! Of course. Now they do say the best solutions are the simple ones!

I'll do that. Why oh why did I not think of that - off I go to synaptic then...

thanks.