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Linux.com: Creating Web Albums with shalbum

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 9, 2006

“Almost no site seems complete these days without an image
gallery, which displays thumbnails of many images in on a single
main page. When you click on any image, you bring up a page with a
larger version of the image. My favorite way to create image
galleries is by using shalbum, an elegant shell script that uses
ImageMagick to generate Web albums.

“ImageMagick is a suite of command-line tools for creating and
manipulating bitmap images. It can be used to create simple
graphics, complex image mosaics, and even animations…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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