{"title":"Stanley Solutions Blog - Scripting","link":[{"@attributes":{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/","rel":"alternate"}},{"@attributes":{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/feeds\/scripting.atom.xml","rel":"self"}}],"id":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/","updated":"2024-01-24T20:52:00-08:00","subtitle":"engineering and creativity - all under one hat","entry":{"title":"Quick-n-Simple Photo Converter (for HEIC format)","link":{"@attributes":{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/quick-n-simple-photo-converter.html","rel":"alternate"}},"published":"2024-01-24T20:52:00-08:00","updated":"2024-01-24T20:52:00-08:00","author":{"name":"Joe Stanley"},"id":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-01-24:\/quick-n-simple-photo-converter.html","summary":"

Those techy, geeks in the audience that use an iPhone probably recognize that the photos they take are in a format that's generally a little... Tricky to use with other resources. Seems I most frequently run into this issue when working on updating my blog with pictures that I took on my phone. I really would much rather use a .png<\/code> format in place of the somewhat irksome .heic<\/code> format that my iPhone captures. There's plenty of things online that I could upload my photos too, but who really wants to do that? I'd rather use something a little more \"close to home.\"<\/p>","content":"

I end up taking lots of pictures. Maybe not as many as some folks, but I do take a lot... Pretty much all of those pictures are taken with my iPhone. As such, they're all in\nthe .heic<\/code> (high efficiency image) format<\/a>. Now, that's neat and all, but those images are harder to embed\nin all the places I want to put them. Thus, I'm stuck back-converting them to PNG format<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like any good programmer, I went right to Google to do a little \"lookin' around\" to find a way to do this with locally on a Linux machine.<\/p>\n

Didn't take long to find plenty of articles recommending heif-convert<\/code>, which can be installed with the following command:<\/p>\n

<\/span>sudo <\/span>apt <\/span>install <\/span>libheif-examples\n<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n
GREAT!<\/strong><\/p>\n
... but ...<\/p>\n
It's a touch too long for my impatient fingers, and I don't want to run that same command over, and over, and over, and over, and over again...<\/p>\n
\n
Time for a script!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I decided to make a simple little script to find all of the *.heic<\/code> photos in the specified directory, and run the conversion required...<\/p>\n
<\/span>#!\/usr\/bin\/bash<\/span>\n# Simple HEIC Conversion Utility (so Joe doesn't need to remember)<\/span>\nfor<\/span> <\/span>file <\/span>in<\/span> <\/span>$1<\/span>\/*.HEIC\ndo<\/span>\n    <\/span>echo<\/span> <\/span>"Converting: <\/span>$file<\/span>"<\/span>\n    <\/span>heif-convert <\/span>"<\/span>$file<\/span>"<\/span> <\/span>"<\/span>${<\/span>file<\/span>%.*<\/span>}<\/span>.png"<\/span>\n    <\/span>rm <\/span>$file<\/span>\ndone<\/span>\n<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n
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photo-convert<\/code> script<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This really made for a nice, handy little script for my photo conversion needs. Maybe you'll find it helpful, too!<\/p>","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"Scripting"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"blog"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"website"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"shell"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"script"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"heic"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"image"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"photo"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"converter"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"conversion"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"file"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"iphone"}}]}}