gollage - GTK+ collage

News

December 2nd, 2008

STILL ALIVE :)
version 0.3
one new features:

#1900939 Overlapping image preference: now you can specify the spreading of the frames

better error handling
the final collage looks now better than the old version 0.2 because of better placement of each frame and the ability to choose how the frames should be placed
Nevertheless there is one small issue with the memory usage, this will be fixed in the next version. Also there will be a new GUI and a change of image handling, I think about it to use cairo in further versions to render the collage, I hope this will improve the speed of rendering. So, expect some updates and a better GUI in the near future.

December 9th, 2007

version 0.2
fixed two bugs:

#1845186 No photos in photo frame
#1845182 Black rectangle around photo frame (cover the other frames)

two new features:

#1845160 Random sizes of polaroid frames on the final collage
#1845149 Final image transparent background

November 27th, 2007

first public release, version 0.1

Status

The current release is a beta release, but it is stable. It is ready for daily usage, no crashes appears in the tests. No data loss or something similar happens. Nevertheless there can be bugs (especially the memory usage), so be warned.

Using

The usage is very simple. Just start gollage, select some photos from the "Photo" tab. You can select multiple files in the file dialog. After selecting the photos, switch to the "Settings" and set the few settings. If you have more than 36 photos then choose "Whole image" or "Random" as spreading. If there are less than 36 photos then choose "Random", "Middle area" or "Center". This is just a recommendation from my side, you can select the spreading as you want. After setting it, just click "Render". After a while, the preview window will appear, there you have the option to save the image (it will automatically save the image as PNG) or to recompute a new alignment. OtherwiseIf you want to change the background color or other settigns after rendering, click "Cancel", change the color or the specific setting and click "Render" again. It will now render a new image.

Requirements

You will need:

GTK+2 >= 2.12.0
ImageMagick
libglade

Installation

Download the package from a sourceforge.net-mirror, extract the archive, change to the newly created directory (usually gollage-x.x) and type






./configure




make




make install (

as root)

Start gollage with gollage.

Prebuild packages

ArchLinux (AUR Repository) or binary packages (i686 or x86_64)

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of gollage. The first shows the main window to adjust the settings, the second screenshot shows the preview window with a generated collage. The third is a real output of gollage.

settings dialog

ToDo

This is a random summary of things, that I want to implement in further versions:

support for other frames, not just polaroid frames
decrease memory usage
better gui

Known issues

a lot of memory usage, if too many photos were selected