RoboCrop

What is this?

This is the main page for RoboCrop, successor to the program JPEGCrops. RoboCrop will provide the same cropping goodness as JPEGCrops and provide some better functionality, that was hard to attain with the JPEGCrops architecture.

What about JPEGCrops?

JPEGCrops will eventually be discontinued. The astute reader will no doubt have noticed that I haven't done much with JPEGCrops for a long time. There are several reasons for this, but mostly it's because it became a chore, instead of a fun thing. The JPEGCrops program will be available "forever", but I'll probably only do bugfixing and no real updates.

What's new, doc?

I've changed to Java (as opposed to Delphi for JPEGCrops) and I'm counting on GCJ & SWT to deliver executables with native GUI. What this means is...

Cross-platform: SWT should work under Windows, Linux and OSX, plus lesser known platforms.
Better code: My Java skills has surpassed my Delphi skills. I've used Java professionally for some years and it seems that it will be my primary professional langues for the next couple of years.
Motivation for me: I only really used Delphi for JPEGCrops, so working on JPEGCrops required me to "go back". Delphi has no garbage collection, poor unit-testing support and lacks other features, that I've gotten used to with Java under IDEA. Using the same language professionally as well as personally, makes it easy to use ½ an hour here and there on RoboCrop.

Status?

This is where the blog-like thingie comes into play. Down below, I'll write from time to time. Feel free to comment on my ramblings.

Tony

2009-12-24 23:26

I would like to see something that could provide an optimized / intelligent crop for doing slideshows on 16:9 monitors from 4:3 digital photos. This would be something like trying to do a center crop but then noticing if there was a lot of "activity" on the top or bottom and choosing to truncate the quiet part or dynamically deciding to resize instead of cropping if there is too much information on the edges for a safe crop. Also it should notice portrait shots and resize those instead of cropping. Pretty tall order, but I can't find anything else on the net that does this. The idea is to prepare a slideshow semi-automatically from 1,000s of pictures.

michal

2009-12-26 18:24

I don't know what does mean green or yellow circle and the value at the right bottom corner.
michal250@tlen.pl

davide

2010-01-11 23:48

hello,
I am looking for a program that will batch crop a batch of images using the crop position/size I set for a single image, rather than having to manually crop each individual image. Can this program do this?

Toke Eskildsen

2010-01-11 23:56

@Tony: The technology is certainly out there for recognizing faces, but I'm afraid your order is too tall for me for the foreseeable future. Sorry.

@michael: They are meant as a guideline for quality when printing, but feel free to ignore them: Quality is subjective.

davide: Yes. Open the images and select "Synchronize Crops" in the "Edit" menu. Your selection will then be applied to all images (a rather neat effect if you use small thumbs and many images).

Ming0

2010-01-14 04:38

I didn't want to read this page because of what you did - I just wanted the software.

Flexray

2010-01-25 20:49

Excellent software, gives me all I need. I'm sure SWT/Java is cool for multiplatform use, but I would very much like lossless crops over multiplatform use, so go Java, but stay with Pro quality. I used some SWT in image processing and Java seems slow and memory killer comparing to c++ or delphi. Best wishes and waiting for a RoboRelease.

2010-02-18 19:47

"Yes. Open the images and select "Synchronize Crops" in the "Edit" menu. Your selection will then be applied to all images (a rather neat effect if you use small thumbs and many images)"

Thank you for this!

I also have another question. I notice that when I open images and change the view to "large" or "huge", the images disappear. It is only when I have the view set to "medium" or "small" when I can see the images. I have v0.7.5 beta.

Any suggestions?

robstud

2010-02-26 11:55

Hi..
TV Format becomes 16x9 so I have plenty images in format 4x3 to change. Good idea to add this format in the list of yr program.
JEGcrops remains the best
TKU