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Phatch = Photo & Batch!

A very promising application is on the horizon, Phatch, a photo batch editor.

From the Launchpad development site of Phatch:

Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, rename, ... and more in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Phatch will also support a console version in the future to batch photos on webservers.

Currently in testing and development phase but already very stable and functional. Of all the photo editing applications that I have seen in Ubuntu, Phatch is the cleanest, lightest and visually the most appealing.

Features

At this moment in time Phatch can apply the following actions to images:

• Image Size - Scale an image with different filters
• Invert - Invert the colours of an image
• Transpose - Flip or rotate an image by 90
• Convert Mode - Convert the colour mode of an image
• Save - Save an image
• Drop Shadow - Drops a blurred shadow under a photo

One very useful feature is called Droplet; once a set of actions has been selected by the user, and after the Droplet mode has been activated, Phatch will appear as a small widget on your screen and you can then drag images and drop them on the Droplet widget for Phatch to edit and save. This is great for when you wish to apply the selected actions to certain images in a set.

Screenshots

Phatch Window

Phatch Actions Selected

Phatch Actions Window

Phatch Widget

Help Test Phatch

Phatch needs testers. If you would like to help, download Phatch and use it, whenever you come across an error or bug report it here.

Download

To download Phatch enter these two commands into the terminal:

sudo apt-get install bzr python-wxgtk2.8 python-imaging
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stani/phatch/dev

This will install Phatch in /home/your-user-name/dev

Use

To start Phatch, enter these commands in the terminal:

cd dev/phatch
python phatch.py

Note: to make sure you have the latest version of Phatch always run the following command before using/testing Phatch:

cd dev
bzr pull