How to Resize Images in Linux KDE Plasma Dolphin with ReImage

ReImage is a convenient and useful KDE service menu extension for Dolphin and Konqueror that allows you to manipulate images and their metadata directly from your preferred KDE Plasma file manager.

This is a package that extends the functionalities of Dolphin/Konqueror adding some interesting features for image manipulation.

ReImage Features

Here are some of its features:

Compress and resize

• Advanced optimization for web
• Compress in % (change quality)
• Resize in % or square
• Convert and rotate
• Convert to all formats supported by ImageMagick
• Convert to PDF or PDF/A-1
• Generate favicons for browser/android/apple/ms
• Convert to Base64
• Rotate
• Overturn vertically/horizontally

Metadata

• Rename jpg and tiff files with data content in Exif metadata.
• (For example: 001.jpg -> 2018-04-27_133741.jpg)
• Rename jpg and tiff files with file’s data.
• Set file’s datetime from Exif date.
• Set file date from file’s name
• Set Exif datetime from file’s date.
• Set Exif datetime from file’s name.
• Add comment
• View metadata
• Extract metadata to file
• Delete comment field
• Strip Exif section
• Delete IPTC section
• Delete XMP section
• Strip all unnecessary data
• Add timestamp from Exif

Tools

• Create animated GIF
• Append to right
• GrayScale
• Sepia filter
• Change transparent to color
• Add colored border
• Add transparent border
• Drop shadow

How to Install ReImage

It’s possible to install ReImage downloading the package in this page.

In Arch Linux, is also possible to install the package via aur:

$ yay -Sy kde-service-menu-reimage

Final Words

ReImage is a great tool for converting and resizing images on the fly using Dolphin/Konqueror, if you are a Kde Plasma user. It unlocks some great features for processing images through some pre-selected options without too many worries.

Obviously, if you want a more consistent and complete tool for processing your images, you just can use a more complete tool like ImageMagick if you prefer to use the command line or Converseen if you prefer a more user friendly GUI application.

Anyway, ReImage is a great tool that I suggest to install on your system since it represents an handy way to resize and convert one or more images with a mouse click when you don’t need to pay too much attention to the more advanced options.