I'm looking to convert a large directory of thumbnails.
Instead of using the PythonMagick wrapper I'd like to access the convert binary directly (I have a lot of flags, and think this would be more efficient for a large quantity of photos.)
Are there any working examples of using ImageMagick as a subprocess? Or, is there a better way to do this?
Specifically, I'm not sure how to start and end a Python subprocess from within a class. My class is called ThumbnailGenerator. I'm hoping to make something like this:
>> t = ThumbnailGenerator()
>> t.makeThumbSmall('/path/to/image.jpg')
>> True
Here's what I've used in one project:
def resize_image(input, output, size, quality=None, crop=False, force=False):
if (not force and os.path.exists(output) and
os.path.getmtime(output) > os.path.getmtime(input)):
return
params = []
if crop:
params += ["-resize", size + "^"]
params += ["-gravity", "Center", "-crop", size + "+0+0"]
else:
params += ["-resize", size]
params += ["-unsharp", "0x0.4+0.6+0.008"]
if quality is not None:
params += ["-quality", str(quality)]
subprocess.check_call(["convert", input] + params + [output])
This will start one process per conversion. If the source images aren't two small, the process startup overhead will be comparatively small.