Open Source Takeover
OK, so it’s not that dramatic – but here’s the story.
I’ve recently gotten involved with a group called <a href=”http://eons.com” target=”_blank”>Eons</a>, a website that’s targeted toward the over 50 folks. I’m involved in the Better Photography group, and the subject came up about someone’s image being “borrowed” by a different person without permission.
So, I went off the to web to look for some sort of utility that would be able to resize and watermark images. I found a resizer program (named, appropriately enough, Resizer) and an article on creating both image and text watermarks. The Resizer program was up for adoption as the person who wrote it was no longer interested in maintaining it. He had written it for a specific purpose and the program was no longer needed.
I contacted him about adopting it and after the appropriate conversations, he passed it on to me. I added three features to it (reduced DPI, image watermarking, text watermarking) and it’s now working. I don’t have it available for download quite yet as it’s currently set up as two separate programs – one to edit the config, one to resize images. In the process of fixing the config I came to the conclusion that I needed to integrate the two programs as I don’t want to plot pixels to place items on the dialog by using pixel counts.
One other thing that prevents me from putting up at the moment is that it’s a .NET program (and yes, it runs on both Windows and Linux) but I don’t have a good install for it yet. I have a link or two to investigate for an install program, but I’ve not quite gotten that far.
All that being said, if you have .NET installed on your Windows or Linux box and don’t mind a little hand-editing of the config file, then drop me a line and I’ll zip up the two programs for you to try out.
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