Nautilus scripts are one of the biggest strengths of the Gnome desktop environment and the nautilus file manager. With Nautilus scripts, we can perform complex file manager and file specific operation with a few clicks. One such example is editing of images.
There are many applications available for editing images in Linux but a nautilus script has its own advantages. To know more about Nautilus scripts, visit this post on Nautilus Scripts. These are the five nautilus scripts you can use for fast image editing:
Rotate all images recursively in a directory:
This script rotates all images recursively in a directory. This rotates the images in the directory and any image in the subdirectory as well. The only disadvantage is that it rotates in one direction only.
Depends on: jhead
Resize images:
This script is used to resize and compress images in a directory. This is a very handy tool for bloggers and for uploading images to the web.
Depends on: zenity, imagemagick
Rotate-Mirror images:
This script rotates images by 90 °, 180 °, 270 °, vertical mirror and horizontal mirror. Also, this script makes the changes directly on the image being modified and deletes all earlier exif data. It cannot edit files in a directory but can edit multiple file selections.
Depends on: zenity, imagemagick
Convert to jpeg:
With this script, we can convert all selected files to .jpeg images. The quality of the image is set to 75; you can set it to a higher value for a better quality. The maximum value is 100.
Depends on: convert, sed
SVG to PNG:
This script converts images from svg to png format. This script like the rotate images script cannot convert files in a directory with directory selection but works on multiple files.
Depends on: zenity, inkscape
Save the script-text as a file into the nautilus directory and make it executable. These scripts will fail to work without the respective dependencies. The dependencies can be installed from the package manager or from the apt-get command line utility. For details on using the script, see this earlier post on nautilus scripts.
