Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Hello,

nice to find you.
Im totally noob to imagemagick and programming, so excuse if my question is posted to wrong place.


Can imagemagick batch process photos, as photoshop variables/datasets do it?
That is take information out of a CSV file, and accordingly add text layers or graphic layers on a batch of images (lets say 5-10K images)?

CSV could look like that

photo, name, name2, level
c:\photo0001.jpg,george,bruce,level 2
c:\photo0002.jpg,nik,mark,level 3
...
c:\photo2311.jpg,john,john,level 2

etc.

All i want to know for the time, is if this is feasible. Not really how to do it. If it can really can be done, i will explore if it worth changing my current workflow. I work with photoshop's variables, atm.

Thank you in advance for your time

IM won't read a CSV and process files as specified by values in the CSV.

Instead, a shell script would read the CSV and call IM once per line, passing IM the values of environment variables it has read from the CSV.

Thank you for your answer.

Photoshop is very nice but quite clumsy, and i believe much slower (it needs to create .psd files, and then convert them to .jpgs), so i will try to give it a try.
I will go on reading now, about fonts etc now before asking things that im sure have been analysed before.

Thank you again.