Phatch – photo batch processor and Exif renamer

PHoto bATCH Processor (Phatch) is a simple to use open source GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies.

Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply perspective, shadows, rounded corners, … and more. Phatch allows you to use EXIF and IPTC tags for renaming and data stamping. Phatch also supports a console version to batch photos on webservers.

Phatch is a cross-platform tool, running on Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems.

Key Features

• Actions:
  • Auto Contrast – maximise image contrast.
  • Background – put colour under transparent image.
• • Blender – 3D objects.
• • Border – draw border inside or outside.
• • Brightness – adjust brightness from black to white.
• • Canvas – crop or expand the canvas without scaling.
• • Color to Alpha – make selected color transparent.
• • Colourise – colourise greyscale images.
• • Common – copies the most common pixel value.
• • Contour – draw a contour around image edges.
• • Contrast – adjust from grey to black & white.
• • Convert Mode – convert the colour mode of an image.
• • Copy – copy the original image.
• • Crop – crop the image.
• • Delete Tags – delete Exif or Lptc tags.
• • Desaturate – fade all colours to grey.
• • Effect – blur, contour, detail, edge enhance, edge enhance more, emboss, find edges, smooth, smooth more, and sharpen.
• • Equalise – equalise the image histogram.
• • Fit – downsize and crop image with fixed ratio.
• • Geek – execute external command.
• • Geotag – add GPS data.
• • Grid – make n x m matrix of image.
• • Highlight – apply a transparency highlight.
• • Imagemagick – 3D edge, blur, bullet, charcoal, motion blur, paint, pencil sketch, polaroid, shadow, sharpen, sigmoidal contrast, unsharp, and wave.
• • Invert – invert the colours of an image.
• • Lossless JPEG – rotate, flip, greyscale, and crop.
• • Mask – apply a transparency mask.
• • Maximum – copies the maximum pixel value.
• • Median – copies the median pixel value.
• • Minimum – copies the minimum pixel value.
• • Mirror – symmetrical tile texture.
• • Offset – offset by distance and wrap around.
• • Perspective – shear 2D or 3D.
• • Posterise – reduce the number of bits of colour channel.
• • Rank – copies the rank’th pixel value.
• • Reflection – drops a reflection.
• • Rename – rename the original image.
• • Rename Tag – rename a tag.
• • Rotate – rotate with random angle.
• • Round – rounded or crossed corners.
• • Saturation – adjust saturation from greyscale to high.
• • Save – save and convert to other types.
• • Save Tags – save only metadata (lossless).
• • Scale – make the image smaller or larger.
• • Shadow – drops a blurred shadow under a photo.
• • Sketch – transform to a greyscale pencil drawing.
• • Solarise – invert all pixel values above threshold.
• • Tamogen – tone alerting mosaic generator.
• • Text – write text at a given position.
• • Time Shift – shift time values of tags.
• • Transpose – flip or rotate 90 degrees.
• • Warm Up – colorize midtones of an image.
• • Watermark – apply with tiling, scaling and opacity.
• • Write Tag – write new value to a tag.
• Enable & disable actions.
• Copy folder hierarchies.
• Python shell.
• Error logging.
• File history.
• Console (can run on servers without gui).
• Desktop droplets.
• Image Inspector (exif & iptc).
• DPI change.
• Drag & Drop droplet.
• Cross-platform (Linux, Windows & Mac).
• python-api.
• Formats supported:
  • Read & Write: BMP, DIB, GIF, JPE, JPEG, JPG, IM, MSP, PCX, PNG, PBM, PGM, PPM, TIF, TIFF, and XBM.
  • Read only: CUR, DCX, FLI, FLC, FPX, GBR, GD, ICO, IMT, MIC, MCIDAS, PCD, PSD, BW, RGB, CMYK, SUN, TGA, XPM.
  • Write only: EPS, PS, PDF.
• Color support:
  • Monochrome (1-bit pixels, black and white).
  • Grayscale (8-bit pixels, black and white).
  • RGB (3×8-bit pixels, true colour).
  • RGBA (4×8-bit pixels, RGB with transparency mask).
  • CMYK (4×8-bit pixels, colour separation).
  • P (8-bit pixels, mapped using a colour palette).
  • YCbCr (3×8-bit pixels, colour video format).
  • I (32-bit integer pixels).
  • F (32-bit floating point pixels).

Website: photobatch.wikidot.com
Support:
Developer: Stani, Nadia Alramli
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Phatch is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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