XnConvert, retouch and process multiple images in Ubuntu 17.10

In the next article we are going to take a look at XnConvert. I am sure that all of us in more than one case have needed resize multiple images at once. If you maintain a blog or website, you will already know that it is a task that is repeated many times. In the event that you prepare photo galleries, I won't even tell you how long this may take. With Adobe Photoshop or another editor you can create an action for this task but there is an easier option (although not the only one). This is the free program in this article called XnConvert. A colleague already spoke about him, quite some time ago, in this same blog.

XnConvert is a photo retouching application designed to process multiple images at the same time, which will save you a lot of time and is also very easy to use. With this program you can process most digital image formats. It has filters and corrections that will allow you to crop, rotate, illuminate and transform a lot of photos in a single pass.

This application will make available to users effects to give a touch of originality to your creations, as well as watermarks and the possibility of saving a list of touches that you use regularly to apply them with a mouse click.

XnConvert General Features

• XnConvert is a Free and easy-to-use image conversion tool Developed by the XnSoft team, which is also the creator of the XnViewMP application.
• You have support for the most popular image formats, which includes JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, RAW, PSD, JPEG, and OpenEXR.
• XnConvert is multi platform, is available for Mac, Windows, and Gnu / Linux for both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
• XnConvert is multilingual, includes more than 20 different translations.
• It offers powerful features in an easy-to-use interface that provides a convenient drag and drop function.
• We can combine and choose from over 80 different operations. These include editing metadata. We can transform the images by turning, cropping or directly we can change the size. We will be able to make adjustments to the brightness, contrast and saturation. We can also add filters such as blur, relief or sharpness, among others. We can also add effects such as the watermark, vignetting or masking.

These are just some of the general features. If someone wants to know more about the program, they can consult the project website In the next link.

Install Xnconvert on Ubuntu 17.10

Before starting with the installation of Xnconvert in our Ubuntu system using a package .deb, for this example I am going to install gdebi. If you already have it installed or prefer to use another installation tool for .deb packages, this step can be skipped. If you want to install gdebi, open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write in it:

sudo apt install gdebi

Once the installation is finished, we can download the .deb package using wget. In the same terminal, we will only have to write:

sudo wget http://download.xnview.com/XnConvert-linux-x64.deb

Once the download is finished we can proceed to the installation using gdebi as follows.

sudo gdebi XnConvert-linux-x64.deb

After the installation, we will have XnConvert installed correctly. We can start the application by looking for it among the programs installed on our computer. We can use the Ubuntu search field to find and start the XnConvert application. Once the application is open, it will look something like the following image.

When we have the program screen in front of us, we will see that it has a fairly simple interface. It has a central workspace and upper tabs whose names already explain them by themselves.

In the tab “Home" we will can open the images we want to process dragging or opening them using the "Add files" button.

In the tab “ActionsWe will define what will we do with the images. The option "Departure from”Will help us to establish where and how they will be stored. And in "Settings" We have some program options such as the possibility of defining the language or when the program should check for updates.

Uninstall xnConvert

To eliminate this program from our system we will only have to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write in it:

sudo apt remove xnconvert