Re: photo layout

Import them all into Gimp each as its own layer (batch)(save as basis
to begin each page) - turn on only the layers(ie pics) you want on a
page and move and adjust them, add boilerplate - save as page 1,
flatten image and save in final format - repeat for page 2....


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion@stcaz.net> wrote:
> flphoto or photoprint may accomplish what you're looking for.
>
> der.hans wrote:
>> moin moin,
>>
>> now, for how I want to do things :)
>>
>> Is there a tool that'll import a bunch of photos and let me toss them
>> around on various pages?
>>
>> I tried scribus, but it didn't seem to like jpgs. Not that I know squat
>> about using scribus...
>>
>> I'd like to do something like "$the_tool *jpg &" and then clicky-clicky,
>> draggy-draggy to move pictures around for a layout. I don't need text for
>> this tool, but it would be cool if I had it, especially if I could
>> automagically get captions or water marks that list the image's file name.
>>
>> Being able to add some rough graphics and being able to do background
>> images and transparency and image rotations would be helpful. Being able
>> to crop would be awesome.
>>
>> This will be for 30 to 50 pages of pictures, but I might soon need it for
>> other stuff as well. It will be going to dead tree. Actually, I think
>> it'll be going to dead dinosour as it'll probably be printed on plastics.
>>
>> Maybe I should just do this with aalib and screen... ;-)
>>
>> I did recently use aalib inside screen to figure out which photo had the
>> painting I wanted to look at.
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>
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