AAPHOTO(1)

📦 version 0.45, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ AAPHOTO(1) — the aaphoto manual, but make it bestie 💖

🎀 NAME

okay so aaphoto is the tool for automatic color correction of photos 📸✨ no cap, it's giving glow-up.

🌸 SYNOPSIS

aaphoto [option[s]] [source file[s]]

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay bestie, Auto Adjust Photo is a tiny command-line image manipulation tool 🦋 its whole thing is automatic color correction, so it tries to make your picture look better without you lifting a finger 🫶 it does this by analyzing the input image and then picking the most optimal contrast, gamma, color balance and saturation for it. literally iconic. 👑

the following image types are supported (thanks to JasPer, JPEG and PNG) 🌈: mif, pnm / pgm / ppm, bmp, ras, jp2, jpc, jpg, png

ngl, quality settings only work on jp2, jpc, jpg formats 🙈

🧚 OPTIONS

the following options are supported ✨:

  • -h, --help — slide in for a quick help printout 💜
  • -v, --version — shows you the version info 🔥
  • -a, --autoadjust — auto adjusts the colors of your image 🌈
  • -o, --output — pick the output directory 📁
  • --overwrite — overwrite mode! ⚠️ the original source file gets replaced, so be careful bestie 😭
  • --jpg — spits out a JPG image 🌸
  • --jp2 — spits out a JPEG 2000 image 🦋
  • --png — spits out a PNG image with alpha channel support 💖
  • --bmp — spits out a BMP image 🍓
  • -r, --resize — resizes the image, taking the longer side in % or pixels 📐
  • --rotate90 — rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise 🔄
  • --rotate180 — rotates the image 180 degrees 🙃
  • --rotate270 — rotates the image 90 degrees counter-clockwise 🔁
  • --flipx — mirrors the image horizontally 🪞
  • --flipy — mirrors the image vertically 🪞
  • --noexif — saves the image without EXIF info 🕶️
  • -q, --quality — set the image quality from 1 to 100 💯
  • -t, --threads — set the number of working threads (default: autodetect) 🧵
  • -s, --silent — silent mode, nothing gets printed during operation 🤫
  • --quiet — same as -s, --silent 🤫
  • -V, --verbose — prints verbose info about processing 📣
  • --test — prints detailed test info into the image 🧪

🍓 EXAMPLES

aaphoto folders
aaphoto image.jpg
aaphoto -a -r600 -q85 *.jpg
aaphoto mydir
aaphoto -V --resize70% image.png
aaphoto --quality60 image.jp2
aaphoto image.jp2

💜 REMARKS

  • auto adjust is set by default without any other parameters 💅
  • a _new filename gets generated without the --overwrite parameter 🫶
  • every file gets processed on directory input, but not recursively 🙈
  • order of parameters does not matter, slay 🔥
  • resize value can be set in percentage too 📐
  • resize parameter should be less than or equal to the original 🦋
  • resize uses the best (and slowest) resampling method 🐢
  • default jpeg compression quality is 95% 💖
  • EXIF information is restored in jpeg images by default ✨
  • number of threads is set to the number of online processors by default 🧵

👑 AUTHORS

Auto Adjust Photo Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Andras Horvath E-mail: mail@log69.com — suggestions & feedbacks are welcome 💌 URL: http://log69.com — the official site 🌐 Man page originally made by rezso (rezso@rezso.net) 🫶

the following libraries are used by this program 📚:

🌈 LICENSE

this program is free software 🕊️ you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details.

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> 📜

🦋 SEE ALSO

the full documentation for aaphoto is available on the website: http://log69.com 🌐

bestie, that's the whole tea ☕💖 aaphoto, version of 2011, is the whole vibe and I'm obsessed 😭✨ 🫶💅

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