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Convert SVG to PNG
Earlier this year I became obsessed with different types of media (images, audio, video) and how to convert and merge one format to/with another. Half of that obsessions is due to fascination in how it's done, the other half is love of performance. A few of...
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Get Image Dimensions from Command Line
The command line is a gold mine if you come from the perspective of a UI lover. Getting information from the shell instead of opening an app, finding a file or directory, etc...what a novel concept. Opening different image files opens up different apps on my Mac...
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How to Watermark Images and Videos
As a content creator I respect an author or artist's desire to protect their work. I don't consider this blog art but I'm annoyed as hell when I see my blog posts show up on another site. I'm lucky enough that my blog is mostly recreational but many...
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Resize an Animated GIF
Animated GIFs are images but you can't really handle them link other types of images, like PNGs or JPEGs or even WebPs. GIFs are kind of a video file, because they have frames, but there's no real control over how they play or loop. My favorite image...
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Prevent Animated GIFs from Looping
We all know animated GIFs put the "fun" in "functional." I've recently written incredible posts with regard to animated GIF images, including: Detect if a GIF is Animated Merge GIFs with gifsicle Optimize GIF Images Convert Video to GIF or GIF to Video Get the...
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Access Mac Camera by Command Line
With all of my recent command line tutorials, I've really gotten excited about the shell's simplicity and realized the true power of using the underlying technology of pretty UIs. Since I work from home, I spend a lot of time on video calls, so when...
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Create an Image Preview from a Video
Visuals are everything when it comes to media. When I'm trying to decide whether to watch a video on Netflix, it would be awesome to see a trailer of some kind, but alas that isn't available. When I'm looking to download a video on my computer...
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Optimize GIFs
I've written a lot about converting different media types lately, especially GIFs, including Convert Video to GIF or GIF to Video, Detect if a GIF is Animated, and Get the First Frame of an Animated GIF with ImageMagick, but whether it's ImageMagick or ffmpeg doing the work, GIFs do not always...
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Convert Video to GIF or GIF to Video
I feel like GIFs are more popular now than back in the day when they were just about the only way to have moving imagery on the web. They were so useful because crap like Real Video Player, Windows Media, and other crap formats all required a...
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Convert an Image to Grayscale with ImageMagick
A few years ago I bought a DSLR camera with a bunch of filter effects built in and it's been worth every penny. I took some incredible photos in London, Paris, and Jamaica, and tooks some really special photos of my son during his first few years. And...
