[gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[Grant]

Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high
resolution scan of the album's cover.  There is a new plugin for gmpc
that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV.  As the huge
cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that
need to be cropped, or that the cover needs to be slightly rotated.
I'd like to be able to edit those images as I notice problems with
them, but I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).

Any ideas?  imagemagick comes to mind.  Is there a script or even a
GUI I could run on the HDTV system that might be able to crop and/or
rotate quickly and easily?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[Stroller]

On 24 Jan 2009, at 19:08, Grant wrote:
> ... I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).

The obvious thing that springs to mind is to export the folder  
(containing the music / images) on the HDTV system via NFS or Samba &  
mount it on the laptop.

I think there's a fuse implementation which allows you to virtually  
"mount" over sftp.

But really you need to tell us more before we're able to help.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[Grant]

>> ... I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
>> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
>> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
>> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
>
> The obvious thing that springs to mind is to export the folder (containing
> the music / images) on the HDTV system via NFS or Samba & mount it on the
> laptop.

Sounds like a good idea.  Would one be better than the other?

> I think there's a fuse implementation which allows you to virtually "mount"
> over sftp.
>
> But really you need to tell us more before we're able to help.

What else would you like to know?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[pk]

Grant wrote:
> Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high
> resolution scan of the album's cover.  There is a new plugin for gmpc
> that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV.  As the huge
> cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that
> need to be cropped, or that the cover needs to be slightly rotated.
> I'd like to be able to edit those images as I notice problems with
> them, but I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
> 
> Any ideas?  imagemagick comes to mind.  Is there a script or even a
> GUI I could run on the HDTV system that might be able to crop and/or
> rotate quickly and easily?

Imagemagick would probably work (man convert). If you have gimp
installed on your mediapc you could always start gimp on that and use X
(depending if you allow X-forwarding in your sshd_config). Otherwise you
could do like Stroller suggests (NFS or Samba).

Best regards

Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[Matt Harrison]

Grant wrote:
>>> ... I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
>>> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
>>> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
>>> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
>> The obvious thing that springs to mind is to export the folder (containing
>> the music / images) on the HDTV system via NFS or Samba & mount it on the
>> laptop.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea.  Would one be better than the other?
> 
>> I think there's a fuse implementation which allows you to virtually "mount"
>> over sftp.
>>
>> But really you need to tell us more before we're able to help.
> 
> What else would you like to know?
> 
> - Grant
> 

Are the changes the same for each image or are they something you have 
to judge for yourself? If they are the same then you could write a 
script that performs the changes using imagemagick tools, without the 
need to copy them around the network.

Of course, if it's something you need to judge by eye, that isn't an option.

-- 
Matt Harrison

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[Stroller]

On 25 Jan 2009, at 01:08, Grant wrote:
> ...
> Sounds like a good idea.  Would one be better than the other?

Depends what o/s you're using everywhere. I wasn't sure if your media  
player was actually a PC or some kind of standalone box.

Samba is fine when you're double-clicking in a GUI to connect - from  
Macs or Windows - and if I'm mounting manually at the command line I  
find its syntax less wieldy. I find NFS easier to use between Linux  
systems - intuition would indicate that it should give better  
performance than Samba, but I have heard this may not (always?) be the  
case.

Stroller.
  

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Remote image editing (crop & rotate)

[Grant]

>> Each ripped CD in my music collection is accompanied by a high
>> resolution scan of the album's cover.  There is a new plugin for gmpc
>> that displays that cover art at full screen on my HDTV.  As the huge
>> cover art images appear on the TV, I notice one or more sides that
>> need to be cropped, or that the cover needs to be slightly rotated.
>> I'd like to be able to edit those images as I notice problems with
>> them, but I wonder if there is an easier way than scp'ing each image
>> to my laptop, opening it in gimp, editing it, saving it, and scp'ing
>> it back to the HDTV system (especially sshd_config AllowUsers only
>> allows my user and the user running gmpc is different).
>>
>> Any ideas?  imagemagick comes to mind.  Is there a script or even a
>> GUI I could run on the HDTV system that might be able to crop and/or
>> rotate quickly and easily?
>
> Imagemagick would probably work (man convert). If you have gimp
> installed on your mediapc you could always start gimp on that and use X
> (depending if you allow X-forwarding in your sshd_config). Otherwise you
> could do like Stroller suggests (NFS or Samba).

Great idea, I installed gimp and enabled X-forwarding and it's great.
I've got a couple X-forwarding questions I'm going to post about.

- Grant