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.