Even tough this is a photography blog we’re going to take a little segue into the world of technology and talk about why I use Linux to handle my photo work instead of Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
If you don’t know, Linux is a free and open source operating system maintained by a legion of programmers. Some are volunteers, some paid by companies to make custom modifications. The most popular flavor or brand of Linux is called Ubuntu, maintained by a company in the UK. That’s the distribution I use. It’s free if you’d like to try it, just visit www.ubuntu.com. So why go to all that trouble?
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I also really like imagemagick, but I actually have started to use phatch for the kind of jobs that you are talking about. I have been doing a lot of timelapses with a compact camera and always resize, crop (4/3 to 16/9) and run sharpen on all images. Phatch allows me to do that very easily (you can also use imagemagick from phatch)…
Canonical is based in England, Isle of Man, not South Africa – which is a birthplace of Mark Shuttleworth who started the company. Just a quick correction. Apart from that, nice article, cheers.