Stupid Little Projects when I'm Bored

From my last post  where I made a slideshow promo video, I realised how powerful Pillow is. I still have a fair bit of automation to do, so another thing I do a lot of is motivational quotes for Twitter (I am aware they are fucking stupid, but they share well) The breakdown of the components are a background with a filter, the quote, who said it and our logo. Background and Filter To start off I am going to create a folder called quote and add in an image and just name it background.jpg (sourced from Pixabay ). Next I import PIL and open the file. from PIL import Image import os , errno cwd = os.getcwd() image_dir = os.path.join(cwd , 'quote' ) def filterImage (imageFile): im = Image.open(imageFile) im.show() filterImage(os.path.join(image_dir , 'background.jpg' )) Next I need to crop the image. I am going to take the centre portion out of the image to make square. Like so: So I start off with getting the dimensions of the ima...

I am in the middle of building an app and need to put together several promo videos for Twitter and Instagram, and man it is boring. So I thought 'how can I automate this process?', so welcome to this post. What I am going for is a selection of images, greyscaled flipping through with our logo on the front. So my approach was to use python, pillow and ffmpeg to build something. This could be disastrous. Images To start a few pre-flight checks, a variable for the test image and to check for/create a processed folder for the final images to go. import os , errno from PIL import Image , ImageFont , ImageDraw testImage = 'test.png' cwd = os.getcwd() image_dir = os.path.join(cwd , 'images' ) default_dir = os.path.join(cwd , 'processed' ) try : os.makedirs(default_dir) except OSError as e: if e.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise I am going to build a function that will do all of the processing, but first going to run on one image b...

Photography on a Budget Who doesn't love a good time lapse, everything goes all fast like. Clouds zipping through the sky, cars turning into streaks across the image. So I wanted try my hand at making some, but I'm broke as a joke. Therefore I wondered with a bit of code and an old Android phone could I create one? Let have a go! Shitty Hardware I had in a box a old Android phone, an HTC Desire S S510e to be exact. It sports: Screen size: 3.7" Screen Resolution (pixels): 480 x 800 Operating system: Android 2.1 Camera resolution: 5MP camera Stand-by time: 17.9 Days Depth: 1.19cm deep Height: 11.9cm high Width: 6cm wide Autofocus: Yes Weight (g):130g FM tuner: FM Radio Release date: 5 Apr 2011 So a badly smashed screen, but not important. I ended up getting this phone just by asking a friend what they got hanging around in a drawer.  Camera Application Now the normal camera is not going to do. So I am gonna use IP Webcam , bas...