Photoshop is an amazing piece of software; where would we be without it? But it’s easy to forget that it’s not the only tool available for working with graphics. This morning I found myself opening Photoshop just to create a single thumbnail. That’s a 200+ megabyte application just to carry out a very simple task.
Then I remembered ImageMagick. You can create thumbnails very easily with a single command; it takes a fraction of a second.
The syntax is just:
convert -thumbnail 192x109 big_image.jpg thumbnail.jpg
Very handy.
If you’re on a Mac, and you’re running MacPorts (if not why not?), you can install ImageMagick as simply as:
sudo port install ImageMagick
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