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I have a directory and several sub-directories below the main directory with thousands of images.

I would like to apply a simple text label to all the images at once.

The Annotating Images / Labeling an Image command works perfectly as I have tested it on a few of my images:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/#annotating
I would just like to know how can I do it all at once in batch since the label will be the same for all images

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

create your label as an transparent background image, then use mogrify to apply it to every image in a given folder. Note it does not do subfolders.

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#mogrify
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics ... fy_compose

Otherwise, you need to create a script to loop over every directory and every subdirectory and apply the label. With the above, you have to repeat the mogrify only for each distinct subdirectory.

Thanks fmw42 for your advise.

I'll go ahead and make the the label as a transparent background image and use the mogrify command.

Cheers

robocop wrote:Thanks fmw42 for your advise.

I'll go ahead and make the the label as a transparent background image and use the mogrify command.

Cheers

I recommend that you use the -path option to another empty directory to be sure you do not overwrite your originals with bad processing or errors