Anders Hesselbom

Destroying pictures using the command line

2010-12-24

PhotoKiller.exe is a simple command line application that loads an image, manipulates it, and saves it under a new name. By manipulating the levels, and taking some other measures, the image will look like an old color photo.

I have a picture called “image.jpg” in a folder where I also have PhotoKiller.exe. This is the original photo:

From the command line, start PhotoKiller.exe and pass the filename of the picture as an argument to PhotoKiller.exe.

After a few seconds, a new png file is created, called “image.jpg.destroyed.png”. This is the result :

Download PhotoKiller.exe from here. And here are some more examples. The original image is on the left.

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