How to Manipulate Image Files using Nautilus Context Menu

The developer of Touchpad indicator recently announced a new tool: Nautilus-Image-Tools. It’s an Nautilus extension allows to quickly manipulate your pictures through context menu.

The extension currently includes following functions:

black and white

blur

border, add white border

contour

convert to other file format,

to other file format, enhance

flip

greyscale

negative

resize

rotate

shadow

vintage

watermark

Here are some screenshots:

Install Nautilus Image tool extension:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to install it from developer’s ppa. Supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/nautilus-extensions sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-tools nautilus -q

NOTE that this extension is still in development stage. It sometimes freeze your browser and you need to restart it to fix the problem.

Once installed, right-click on an image file and see: