Got a heap of apps and tools I worked myself through, but none made it that far like windows batches, console commands and having a somewhat clear layout of folders, which allow fast renaming and tagging and whatnot. And talking about getting far - it's quite an achievement if an app stays with me for now over six years since I first found it on the web.
Talking 'bout imBatch - that in combination with xnView which also features image batch processing with a bag full of useful functions to manipulate pictures, filenames, metadata and filetype conversion.
Got a bunch of stored batches ready already... pondering where to put them. Maybe here on the server, MEGA, Lougle *grin* or putting them on an open source control platform, so you might give 'em a try. Saves lots of work and gives me the feeling again that a Workstation is still a working station instead of sabotaging as a distraction station any try for focused work.
The environment variable PATH enhanced with the imBatch folder entry eases your work with the console. Taking the hints from below I'd use a script (be it Python or JavaScript), xnView (has a funky way of having lines filled with code along file-metadata) or Construct to generate the filelist and combine it like this:
imbatch -h -b "Resize and Optimize for Web.bsv" -i "pics/pic1.jpg|pics/pigolo.png|wallpaper.jpeg|andsoon.webm" -r -c
Use -h NotSilent if you wish to get notified by a imBatch when the dish with fish is finished
Access the Command Line
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ImBatch usage: ImBatch.exe [-h [NotSilent]] [-b "SavedTasksFile.bsv"] [-i "ImageFiles"] [-r] [-c]
Also you can write parameters into the text file, where each parameter must be placed on a separate line. Then you must send this file prefixed with @ and enclosed with quotation marks to ImBatch in following form: ImBatch.exe "@ParamsFileName" Alrighty, this might give the tool a lots of more depth. Memo to me: I'll have to sleep over this and think of something to test the usefulness of this one. | ||||||||||||
Also ImBatch supports Unicode symbols, so it can be localized to any language. And one more thing: ImBatch is absolutely FREE for personal usage! |
Yet more to come.
AdvancedRenamer (the Motörhead amongst renaming tools)
FileListCreator (nomen est omen: does as it says and this good)
Laighter (can be accessed by console and is used to generate bump-, gloss- and normalmaps)
xnView (yet sometimes unstable but has a better of all the bad categorizing systems out there)
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