negfix8
You want a contact sheet with that?
Written by marcelpetrick on June 3, 2015
Slogan is like always: “If you are not ashamed of the first release of XYZ, then you waited too long or have no self-reflection.”
It would be nice to have a preview shaped like the original contact sheets of a HDR-film scan. So you could screenshot the thumbnails and print this.
Or you try the following script:
- it takes all TIF from one directory (assuming they are HDR-scans from SilverFast)
- creates thumbnails with a longer side of 400px into a separate directory
- appends six thumbnails for each row and the combines all rows to a single picture. If the number of pictures does not fit, the last picture is repeatedly appended (this is necessary due to the negative conversion)
- ‘negfixes’ them (negative conversion done by the great original script of negfix8 from JaZ99!)
- spreads the contrast in two diffent approaches (check yourself which is your most liked version)
As a result you get something like this:
As you can see: the black strips at the left and right side of the pictures still exist. But since I scan always the HDR-files with top and bottom cropped, the black borders don’t show up there. Time to change my workflow?
Download:
- newest version: contactSheet_0.2
- contactSheet_0.1
HowTo:
- download & extract the two scripts
- open a bash-terminal an navigate INTO the directory with the HDR-scans
- run “/PATHTOSCRIPT/createContactSheet.sh” and wait for 2 to 3 minutes
Future plans:
- improve the structure of the code and add some more comments and make it less error-prone
- full clean-up after the creation (by default; suppresable by param)
- suppress the negfixing by param so also E6 (slide)-scans can be ‘contact sheeted’
- make the script use the general temp-folder and put just the final two contact sheets into the target folder (so the data stays clean)
- add the filename in the bottom-right as transparent overlay so you know which thumbnail belongs to which picture