Tag: imagemagick
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Useful gems, 2020 edition
Since the gem ecosystem keeps changing, and since I don’t write new programs very often, here’s a list of my favorite gems for developing command-line interface tools. Option parsing gem: slop. (Since micro-optparse looks moribund; see here.) But (looking at programs I’ve written) I also seem to like trollop, a/k/a optimist. But I also like…
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Mini Magick
I just discovered MiniMagick. It is exactly what I was looking for in a ruby-language wrapper for ImageMagick. I’ve been using ImageMagick forever. Like, more than 20 years foreer. Maybe 30 years;Â I don’t know when it was first developed, or how old it was when I discovered it. Some of the time, I use…
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Photo Manipulation Tools
Here are some of my favorite tools for working with digital images. Pixelmator. This is my go-to program for digital images, and someday they’ll ship 2.0 and it will be awesome. Xee calls itself “a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser.” I agree. The best feature, for my money, is that it lets…