From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 29 18:03:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691D6106566B for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A5D8FC0C for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:03:02 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp024.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KX0007ZNST1D230@asmtp024.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:03:02 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001290151 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <201001291241.06909.freebsd@insightbb.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:03:00 -0800 Message-id: <0122EE0C-02B4-4FAD-A5EC-506488236ADC@mac.com> References: <201001291241.06909.freebsd@insightbb.com> To: Steven Friedrich X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I create a 40x40 pixel monochrome mage for KMail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:03:02 -0000 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