Hello, world
October 2, 2020•24 words
I blame the Ubuntu Podcast for me finding out about this easy blogging platform. I'm kind of grateful though - this could be useful!
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Processing images for a website
October 4, 2020•90 words
I always seem to forget the best options for converting eg a photo I’ve taken - or downloaded from Unsplash - for use on a website. Here’s a reminder, based on general experience and also the answers and notes for this StackOverflow question. The basic answer is:
Crop if necessary, so the image is the right aspect ratio (GIMP does this fine)
Use imagemagick to compress etc, with a command like:
convert input-image.jpg -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 -resize 800 \
-interlace JPEG -co...