Free instant picture creator software for linux

Video Related Picture Editor is a gtk2 GUI frontend for batch-manipulating images using ImageMagick, MPlayer and transcode.

Its also the name of the infamous VRPE Team who paid me for hacking this together quickly because they needed it.

The name

Why "video related picture encoder" ? Because I didnt find a better name :) Any suggestions are welcome. With v0.1 the project was called "gFader" because all it did was "morphing" single frames to slow-down a video (giving a "fade-like effect") as batch-job with nice gui so poor Windows users could use it ;) My customer then wanted gFader to also do crop and scaling of multiple image files which rendered "gFader" as projectname useless. So i tried to make up some general name, which still fits if the application-range grows.

What can it do?

VRPE is able to do batch image-processing on a large set of images providing a way to move between images and giving a preview of the current, the previous and the next frame all with a nice GUI.

Different effects can be applied to the image-set (e.g morph, crop). Some of the effects support variable parameters so an effect can change with the image position.

VRPE can load several image formats (the ones supported by gtk2 and ImageMagick) or can convert almost any video to single frames using mplayer. It exports single images but also can render a videofile using mencoder or transcode. You can even launch mplayer to look at what youve done.

Other Features are:

Tooltip explainations almost everywhere
Nice wiki
quite fast

Drawbacks at this time:

lousy hacked together code
somewhat static filename handling
no "project" cababilities (images from previous sessions get imported if directory is not cleared etc.)
morph-curve gets lost
many more...

Online Contact Sheet Creator script that generate stylish contact sheets without any fussing around in Photoshop.
You can use the script to generate contact sheets for clients (great for photographers or graphic designers), or you can use it personally for a small photo album.
You can also add Online Contact Sheet Creator to your web site to add some functionality for your visitors.
Main features:
- Online Contact Sheet Creator is easy to install, just a few simple steps and youre done!
- You select the number of images a visitor can upload for their sheet.
- A temporary file system insures that you wont max out your web hosts file size limits.
- The contact sheets look clean and professional, with each photo numbered for easy reference.

Zenith Picture Gallery is a feature-rich picture gallery that organizes uploaded images into searchable categories, creates thumbnails, and stores individual statistics for each one.
Other features of Zenith Picture Gallery include downloadable categories and sub-categories, user accounts and profiles, batch adding via FTP and batch deleting, user comments and ratings, the ability to add languages and skins, the option to rebuild thumbnails, an IP blacklist, and a comprehensive admin control panel that provides access to a great deal of settings and formatting options.
Main features:
- Everything is done from the browser, from installation to configuration.
- Searcheable records by filters.
- Auto-resizing/resampling of images to thumbnails.
- Easy skinning.
- Categories and sub-categories with display permission options.
- User accounts, user profiles, control panels and user types.
- Easy management of languages.
- Blacklist containing IPs of troublesome users.
- Admin CP allows you to define countless settings and formatting options.
- A notice appears in the nav bar to admins when there are pictures, comments or users awaiting approval.
- Batch add pictures via FTP.
- Batch delete pictures.
- Rebuild thumbnails tool.
- Search result and display page addresses are linkable.
- Gallery can be turned on/off.
- Adding pictures can be disabled for guests.
- Sort pictures by Last comments, Most viewed, Top rated.
- ZIP and download pictures.
- User accounts, profiles and pictures can all be managed in the Admin CP.
- Option to receive an email when a picture is submitted.
- 21. Option to allow only registered users to view the gallery.
- 22. Option to set a timezone offset for picture submission dates.
- Categories are mapped to directories in the file structure.
- Users can choose a skin from the ones uploaded.
- Forgot my Password and Resend Activation Email tools.
- Admins can define custom fields for pictures.
- EXIF support.

instantRSS is a RSS link creator for websites, especially for those who dont have RSS capabilities for their websites, blogs. As long as a page is marked up appropriately with the tags, then instantRSS can spit out an RSS file!
Main features:
- can be used remotely or locally
- remote usage implies that the instantRSS script resides on a server that does not host your site/blog
- local usage implies that the instantRSS script resides on the same server that hosts your site, and that instantRSS script is used *only* for your instantRSS marked pages

Instant is a Python module that allows for instant inlining of C and C++ code in Python. Instant is a small Python module built on top of SWIG.

Example of use:

>>> c_code = """
double sum(double a, double b){
return a+b;
}
"""
>>> import Instant
>>> ext = Instant.Instant()
>>>
>>> # create the wrapper code, compile and link it to a shared library
>>> ext.create_extension(code=c_code, module=test1_ext)
>>>
>>> # use the C code
>>> from test1_ext import sum
>>> print sum(3.7, 4.8)
8.5

Example with NumPy arrays converted to C double arrays:

>>> import Instant
>>> import Numeric
>>> import sys
>>> import time
>>>
>>> ext = Instant.Instant()
>>>
>>> c_code = """
/* add function for vectors with all safety checks removed ..*/
void add(int n1, double* array1, int n2, double* array2, int n3, double* array3){
for (int i=0; i >>"""
>>>
>>> ext.create_extension(code=c_code, headers=["arrayobject.h"],
>>> include_dirs=[sys.prefix + "/include/python" + sys.version[:3] + "/Numeric"],
>>> init_code=import_array();, module=test3_ext,
>>> arrays = [[n1, array1],[n2, array2],[n3, array3]])
>>>
>>> from test3_ext import add
>>> a = Numeric.arange(10000); a = Numeric.sin(a)
>>> b = Numeric.arange(10000); b = Numeric.cos(b)
>>> c = Numeric.arange(10000); c = Numeric.cos(c)
>>>
>>>add(a,b,c)

libptp2 is a library used to communicate with PTP devices like still imaging cameras or MP3 players (KODAK mc3).
You can download files or tweak camera properties using ptpcam program boundled with libptp2.
Supported Cameras
The list of cameras implementing PTP is constantly growing. Most (if not all) USB still cameras designed after 2002 are supporting PTP. Below is the list of vendors implementing PTP in their cameras:
- Kodak
- HP
- Nikon
- Canon
- Panasonic
- Olympus
- Konica
- Minolta
- Fuji
- Ricoh
- Sony
More are comming...
Please note that if your camera is supporting PTP it does not mean that it is capable of performing all PTP operations (like trigerring capture, uploading files or tweaking properties). Sony cameras are good example of poor PTP implementation where the only thing you can do is downloading files. Sony even breaks the USB specification assigning all its cameras the same product/vendor IDs so dont buy Sony if you want to stay out of problems.
Currently most PTP features are supported. Uploading/downloading files, taking pictures and setting camera properties is supported as long as your camera supports it. However there are many Vendor Extensions that are not supported.
For example Canon uses some proprietary extension operations to take pictures (entering capture mode, extending lens and so on), Nikon introduces proprietary PTP properties.
Unfortunately I have access to couple of Kodak cameras only so to help support extension features you may send me a patch or donate/lend the camera.
Enhancements:
- A number of bugs were fixed, including leaving the camera in an unpredictable state when an I/O error occurs.
- The projects own reimplementation of the old libusb interface (IOCTL_USB_BULK) is used instead of the new URB interface, which is 20% to 50% slower and sometime leads to I/O errors.
- File time preservation across download was added.
- Better capture support was added.
- A bug that caused files over 2MB to be corrupted while downloading was fixed.
- The --loop-capture feature was added.
- Configure errors and parralel build with make -j were fixed.