Snap Webcam And Caption It

Liam Dunne

mkdir -p ~/Pictures/BuildPhotos ; \
cd ~/Pictures/BuildPhotos ; \
photoPath="$(date +%y%m%d%H%M%S).png" ; \
resizedPhotoPath="resized-$(date +%y%m%d%H%M%S).png" ; \
/usr/local/bin/imagesnap -w 1 $photoPath ; \
topCaption='this is a test' ; \
topCaption="$(echo ${topCaption} | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')" ; \
bottomCaption='...which is resulting in a large amount of text that displays much text in this text' ; \
bottomCaption="$(echo ${bottomCaption} | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')" ; \
convert $photoPath -resize 320x320\> -size 320x -gravity south $resizedPhotoPath ; \
width=`identify -format %w ${resizedPhotoPath}` ; \
convert $resizedPhotoPath \
-gravity north -background '#0000' -font "Helvetica-Narrow-Bold" -pointsize 20                -fill black -size ${width}x caption:"${topCaption}" -composite \
-gravity north -background '#0000' -font "Helvetica-Narrow-Bold" -pointsize 20 -geometry +0-4 -fill white -size ${width}x caption:"${topCaption}" -composite \
-gravity south -background '#0000' -font "Helvetica-Narrow-Bold" -pointsize 20                -fill black -size ${width}x caption:"${bottomCaption}" -composite \
-gravity south -background '#0000' -font "Helvetica-Narrow-Bold" -pointsize 20 -geometry +0-4 -fill white -size ${width}x caption:"${bottomCaption}" -composite \
$photoPath
rm $resizedPhotoPath