Hi, Thanks to all who pointed out ways to do this, this is what I'm trialling at the moment, as a combination of a few of the hints: for file in * do number=$(echo $file | cut -b6-8) echo doing photo $number convert -fill red -font Bookman-DemiItalic -pointsize 330 -draw "text 300,1000 photo-$number" $file ../proofs/$file done That makes modified versions in a different directory, and works rather nicely. Now I just wish I had faster PC, they're big files to play with. ;-) I'll probably have to go back and modify the text placement for a few of them, if it's appeared smack across someone's face, but it takes care of the bulk of the photos without lots of work. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list