How to Manipulate Image Files using Nautilus Context Menu

Last updated: December 2, 2013

 

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,
  • enhance
  • flip
  • greyscale
  • negative
  • resize
  • rotate
  • shadow
  • vintage
  • watermark

Here are some screenshots:

nautilus image tool blur

nautilus image tool blur

nautilus image tool with white border

nautilus image tool negative

nautilus image tool with shadow (png)

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:

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