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Questions tagged [images]

DO NOT USE THIS TAG! It has been retired. If you have a question about a disk image (a file that represents the contents and structure of a data disk), use [disk-image] or [iso-image] instead. If you have a question related to picture files, use a tag related to what you are doing with the images, such as [image-editing], [image-processing], or [image-conversion].

DO NOT USE THIS TAG! It has been retired. See Girl, you're a mess: [images] needs a makeover.

Question referring to pictures should be tagged according to what you are trying to do with them. Better tags that may possibly apply to your question:



Question referring to representations of data stored on a disk should be tagged , or if the storage media is an optical disk.

Examples of system images are:

  • Images created / restored by hard drive cloning programs
  • LiveCD images
  • Virtualised machine images
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Combine one image + one audio file to make one video using FFmpeg

This should be pretty trivial, but I can't find a way to get it to work. I want FFmpeg to take one JPEG image and an audio file as input and generate a video file of the same duration as the audio file (by stretching the still image for the whole…
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How to extract one frame of a video every N seconds to an image?

How can I convert a video file to a sequence of images, for example one frame every N seconds. Can mplayer or ffmpeg do this? I have used MPlayer to grab screenshots manually but I would like to automate this for a long video.
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How to pick a color from an image

How can I pick a color from an image? When I move the cursor to any particular point in the image, I want the hex code of the color at the cursor to be displayed. I would like to be able to do that with anything displayed on the screen even if it…
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Convert many images to one PDF on Mac

How can I convert about 100 PNGs to one PDF on a Mac? I'm open to using the command line if it helps. I have tried using iPhoto, but it quits, not sure why. Saving from Preview doesn't quite do what I want. Thoughts?
tekknolagi
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How to split a multipage TIFF file on Windows?

I thought Adobe Photoshop could do everything, but apparently it cannot read multipage TIFF files. I have a TIFF file with four pages, and I need to edit one of the pages. Windows Picture Viewer can print all four pages, but cannot split them.…
Portman
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How to extract image from PDF file

I currently use Foxit's PDF reader, and I recently downloaded an image from the Internet, but it is inside a PDF file. How do I extract this image? Operating system is Windows 7.
studiohack
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Copying PNG with transparency from browser shows a black background instead

When I copy a PNG image with transparency to the clipboard and subsequently paste it into Photoshop, Paint, etc. - the transparency turns to black. Is there any workaround for this? Is this a browser issue, an application issue or an OS issue with…
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What is the location of lock screen images on Windows 10?

Where, or what format, are the images used by Windows 10 when logged out or in lock-screen? I searched the entire drive for *.jpg, *.bmp, *.png, and *.tif but the one I was looking for did not appear. At first glance, Path to current desktop…
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Windows 7: Image thumbnails fail to appear

All right, I've got a pretty strange one here. Since I installed Windows 7 on this machine some time ago, image thumbnails have never worked properly. For the vast majority of images, they completely fail to show up, showing the icon of the…
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How do I make an existing animated GIF loop repeatedly?

I have an animated gif which, as originally created, animates once then stops. I want to modify the image file so it loops forever instead. What free applications or command-line utilities for Mac OS X can I use to do this? I've found several GIF…
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Does only GIF support animation?

Is GIF the only major image format that supports animation? With GIF images being a relatively poor quality format, why are they the only one that supports animation in most viewers / browsers?
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Create video with 5 images with fadeIn/out effect in ffmpeg

With 5 images I have to create a video of 60 seconds in ffmpeg, each image has to display for 15 seconds. after 15 seconds, first image has to fade out and 2nd image has to fade in, after that 2nd image has to fade out, 3rd image has to fade…
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Is there an image viewer that takes images on STDIN?

I'm looking for an image viewer that takes data on stdin and can be run like: cat image.png | imageviewer
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How can I resize (not compress) multiple images in a MS Word document?

In a blank document, I insert images (screenshots - all are of same size and same format) from a folder. I want to resize the images to a desired size. All now I am doing is selecting one image by one, setting its size. Word does not seem to have…
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JPEG vs PNG vs BMP vs GIF vs SVG

I would like to know which one of these formats requires less memory for the same quality of the picture, and what are the main differences between these formats.
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