Bonjour,

Author :
Tibor Bamhor

Software Overview
https://code.google.com/p/cphix/

Examples
https://code.google.com/p/cphix/wiki/Examples

Binaries Windows 32/64bit + Sources for Linux
https://code.google.com/p/cphix/downloads/list


This software runs on the command line and performs batch processing on images.
The Cphix2 analyses brightness (average and overall contrast), saturation and sharpness and modifies them.
It allows you to add text.


For Windows users:
Unzip the archive "cphix-1.6_src+binaries_Win-32bit-Win-64bit.zip".
If you use a 64-bit Windows version go in the subdirectory \Win-64bit
If you use a 32-bit Windows version go in the subdirectory \Win-32bit
You can start the terminal by clicking "Start Terminal With Test CPHIX.bat" , help is displayed.
By clicking "test.bat" you change the 2 images on a vertical axis, the right side is the one that is changed.

Amazing difference.



Thanks for the heads up Sam.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here but when I run make in terminal I get this read out and then the compilation stops.

caz@Neptune ~/Desktop/cphix $ make
g++ -c -o easyexif/exif.o easyexif/exif.cpp
g++ cphix2.cpp -O2 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lm -lpthread -lX11 -o cphix2.bin easyexif/exif.o
cphix2.cpp:22:18: fatal error: CImg.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [cphix2.bin] Error 1
caz@Neptune ~/Desktop/cphix $


Looks like there's a file missing. I downloaded the 1.6.tgz

Bonjour,

@Caz

What operating system do you use ?
If you're on Linux you may be can try to install Cimg and/or GMIC packages then compile cphix.

Thanks for the info, samj.
I'm running Linux Mint 15 and have GMIC installed.

also cimg-dev package might be needed - if your distribution offers it...

EDIT:

The file needed is /usr/include/CImg.h

@Caz

I have no problem to compile under Linux Mint 64-bit but I can not compile under Linux Mint 32-bit

Thanks guys. I installed the cimg-dev package and then ran make again. Not much appeared to happen, terminal took about 30 seconds to spit out one line of code, so maybe cphix did compile. The trouble is I have no idea how to make it run if it has compiled. Any ideas?

So you have cphix2.bin file in your compilation directory. For testing purposes put an image file into that directory and run
./cphix2.bin yourimage
(dot and slash must be there)
Alternatively run
./cphix2.bin /path/to/image
Final setup would be to put the bin file into path, possible option would be to /usr/bin (change to root first) and run it as
cphix2.bin bla bla bla
(no dot and slash now, you can run from anywhere)
So generally - treat it as any other binary on linux

@Caz

With Linux Mint 32 bits it runs with ./

./cphix2.bin --help


*****
binaries 32bit / 64bit are in the archive

Too tired to trouble-shoot samj, but, when I run the 64-bit test.bat, I get the following error message.

lylejk,

does the file final_bebe.jpg exists allready?
By default it would be overwritten without asking.
Make sure the directory is writeable for current user and disk is not full...

Also you can use "--skip" and cphix will test if the output file exists and will not try to create it.

it seems the crash occurs when cimg is called to perform save_jpeg function... It would be nicer if cimg returned error on such case instead of crashing whole application...

Doesn't exist at all; never gets created.

is the directory writeable for you - can you create a file there? (I know probably this is not a problem, but you should make sure)

Also try "--png" switch

I just read that there is "official" way how to catch cimg exemptions so I could modify the cphix to survive such problems, print some error text and go on...

Can it be problem with cimg version? Not fully compatible with OS?

@Lylejk
Extract the archive in C:\

Edit

Open the terminal (Windows) with "Start Terminal With Test CPHIX.bat".

You can test with "test.bat".

Do not use "MSys terminal".

Yeah; put it in my program files directory and of course, it wasn't writeable. Followed samj's suggestion and now it works fine. Thanks

Okay, it's working now but not working. I guess I'm just getting the idea wrong but can't for the life of me figure out how to get cphix to run it's magic on an image.
I place a Jpeg in the cphix directory as tibor95 directed to and then tried a few variations on the command to make it work

caz@Neptune ~/Desktop/cphix $ ./cphix2.bin redboat
! Unrecognized argument: redboat Use "-h" for info about switches.
! TERMINATING: No images to process...
caz@Neptune ~/Desktop/cphix $ ./cphix2.bin red boat.jpeg
! Unrecognized argument: red Use "-h" for info about switches.
! Unrecognized argument: boat.jpeg Use "-h" for info about switches.
! TERMINATING: No images to process...
caz@Neptune ~/Desktop/cphix $ ./cphix2.bin redboat.jpeg
! Unrecognized argument: redboat.jpeg Use "-h" for info about switches.
! TERMINATING: No images to process...

I also tried the other command that was suggested but no luck there either. And as for the line Use "-h" for info about switches I get a command not found message. I have got no idea how to make this work. Cheers for any more directions on this.

@Caz

I compile two versions for Linux Mint, maybe you can try...
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8608#p111378

@caz

you are doing probably some trivial mistakes
When you are in your working direcory, use 'ls' to list all files and make sure cphix2.bin and your jpgs are there
Keep in mind in linux case matters and blanks in filenames might be problem. (it seems filename "red boat.jpeg" was parsed as two files. Canonical syntax would be "red\ boat.jpeg", but cphix was not tested in this regard ). Also use auto-completion (tab key) to be sure you are entering existing file name.
Also syntax
./cphix2.bin *jpg *JPG *jpeg *JPEG
would catch all your jpg images in current directory Unless you are mixing cases in your suffixes.

EDIT:

"command not found message" - make sure you are in directory with cphix2.bin.

HINT: use 'ls' to see content of current directory and 'pwd' can show current directory

I know it looks like linux is teribly complicated

@ samj
Thanks for the compiled version. Just tested the 64-bit version and it's working fine. I was missing something rather obvious and that's why I couldn't get it to work. Please see below.

@ tibor95
I ran 'ls' to see what was going on as I still had no luck getting cphix to work and suddenly realised that the redboat file was a jpg and not a jpeg as I had been writing down in terminal. I used the right syntax, took the space out between red and boat, and everything worked. A force of habit thing as I tend to write jpeg when on-line.

Thanks for your patience samj and tibor. I like Linux and will never go back to windows but sometimes it totally baffles me. Now time to play with my latest Linux toy.