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Batch Process Photos with Phatch

October 27th, 2007 · Posted by Toor · 6 Comments

Phatch is a cross-platform photo batch processor. It supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. With Phatch, you can batch resize, rotate, generate rounded corners, make shadows, add watermark, change colour mode and dpi, and rename. Currently, Phatch can handle all popular image formats. If you’re using it, you will save a lot of time.

Installation

1. Before install Phatch, you need to first install python, wxpython, and pil. In Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, you can install them with following command:

sudo apt-get install python python-wxgtk2.8 python-imaging

2. The latest version of Phatch is 0.0.bzr157. You can download it from here. In order to install Phatch, you can run these commands:

tar zxvf phatch-0.0.bzr157.tar.gz
cd phatch-0.0.bzr157/
sudo python setup.py install

In addition, if you’re using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, you can also download deb package of Phatch from here. To install it, execute this command:

sudo dpkg -i phatch_0.0.bzr157-1_all.deb

Usage

Now you can launch Phatch by clicking Applications → Graphics → Phatch Photo Batch Processor.

1. Add an action: click Edit → Add. In Phatch actions dialog box, select an item, e.g. Shadow.

Phatch

2. Return to Phatch main window, click Tools → Execute. After click OK, again execute the same menu command.

Phatch

3. Click Browse Folder select photos, then click Batch button.

Phatch

Here’s a demo:

Phatch

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6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 John // Nov 2, 2007 at 8:20 am

    Hi thanks for sharing this. This is really a great application. I needed to have thumbnails with rounded corners, shadows and a watermark for 20000 pictures and it did the job just fine!!!

  • 2 Batch Process Photos with Phatch [Featured Download] · TechBlogger // Nov 5, 2007 at 8:17 am

    […] Phatch is a free download for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, although each platform requires setting up the Python environment and a few other packages, which is a bit easier to do in Linux. Windows users who don’t want to dive in can check out FastStone Photo Resizer, and Mac owners can try Photo Drop. Phatch [via Phorolinux] […]

  • 3 Batch Process Photos with Phatch [Featured Download] : : Techies // Nov 6, 2007 at 8:13 am

    […] Phatch is a free download for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, although each platform requires setting up the Python environment and a few other packages, which is a bit easier to do in Linux. Windows users who don’t want to dive in can check out FastStone Photo Resizer, and Mac owners can try Photo Drop. Phatch [via Phorolinux] […]

  • 4 » Batch Process Photos with Phatch [Featured Download] // Nov 6, 2007 at 10:16 am

    […] Phatch is a free download for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, although each platform requires setting up the Python environment and a few other packages, which is a bit easier to do in Linux. Windows users who don’t want to dive in can check out FastStone Photo Resizer, and Mac owners can try Photo Drop. Phatch [via Phorolinux] […]

  • 5 Christian // Feb 28, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Seems like dead links…

  • 6 Sam // Mar 3, 2008 at 7:15 am

    They have a .deb package for Gutsy now:

    http://sd-2986.dedibox.fr/photobatch/download/

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