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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:03:00 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I create a 40x40 pixel monochrome mage for KMail?
Message-ID:  <0122EE0C-02B4-4FAD-A5EC-506488236ADC@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <201001291241.06909.freebsd@insightbb.com>
References:  <201001291241.06909.freebsd@insightbb.com>

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On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I've noticed that several apps support images of the user, such as KMail, 
> which supports a 40x40 pixel jpeg.
> 
> I have a webcam, but it won't take  a monochrome picture and it doesn't 
> snapshot all the resolutions that it can display in. In particular, I tried 
> the two lowest and the lowest, sqcif, isn't supported by my webcam and qsif 
> seg faults. Those would have been 128x96 and 160x120.

Take a bigger image, convert it to greyscale, resize it down to the size you want.  You could most easily do this with Photoshop, IrfanView, GIMP, ImageMagick, etc, but something like graphics/netpbm will work even on the FreeBSD command line....

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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