Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Hi Anthony,

thanks for your detailed comments!
So, in the end I will have to edit each picture individually... :(
I hoped that there might be one general and flexible solution that can be applied to all pictures.
I guess I will come again with more specific question for single pictures ...

Hello,

I am trying to remove the background of plenty pictures. Unfortunately, the background of these pictures are neither solid nor always the same. Since I have to do the removal for more than 100 pictures, I would like to do that using a shell script.

First, some example pictures that resemble ...

Hi,


Can you provide a link to an example image that you need to crop?

Unfortunately, not. That are pictures from a non public database and restricted to solely scientific usage. But I found something that could give an impression of what I am talking about:
http://www.redbox.de/news/_data/zoom ...

Hi,

thanks for the detailed reply. I found another way:

#!/bin/bash

declare dir=Reassembled
if [ ! -d $dir ]; then
mkdir $dir; fi

declare -a eqORgt
eqORgt=("-eq" "-gt");

for k in *.tif; do

op=$(($RANDOM % ${#eqORgt[@]}))
noEntries=25
count=0
numbers=()
files=()

# crop the interesting part ...

Hello,

I would like to cut pictures into pieces and then assemble the pieces randomly into a new picture with the same size and dimension of the original picture. Unfortunately, I could not find an appropriate command.
So I tried to use

convert testorig.png -crop 25% test_%d.png

and tried to ...