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Step 7Summary and some final thoughts
So, for the more advanced users, here's a quick rundown.
1. Copy all the itc-files from My Music\iTunes\Album Artwork\Local
2. Pipe all the files into one via copy /b * test.tes (/b is for binary copy)
3. Extract the png's using Bitmaprip
4. Remove duplicates with, for example, Duplicate File Finder
5. Scale all the images to the same size with for example Fotosizer or Photoshop Actions.
6. Use the Contact Sheet function in Photoshop or Picasa2 to assemble the images into a poster.
Wow. Such a long and convoluted walkthrough for something that should be so easy.
I'm pretty sure there are easier methods or maybe someone will just write a simple Python, ImageMagick or whatever script that does all this in no time.
But hopefully someone got some use out of this, if so I would love to see some examples of your finished results, be it a photo of your printed poster or maybe just a desktop wallpaper.
You can of course apply this technique to something else, like your collection of Russian propaganda art, or use the images to make a photo mosaic.
That's it, thanks and feel free to ask any questions or comment if I left something out.
1. Copy all the itc-files from My Music\iTunes\Album Artwork\Local
2. Pipe all the files into one via copy /b * test.tes (/b is for binary copy)
3. Extract the png's using Bitmaprip
4. Remove duplicates with, for example, Duplicate File Finder
5. Scale all the images to the same size with for example Fotosizer or Photoshop Actions.
6. Use the Contact Sheet function in Photoshop or Picasa2 to assemble the images into a poster.
Wow. Such a long and convoluted walkthrough for something that should be so easy.
I'm pretty sure there are easier methods or maybe someone will just write a simple Python, ImageMagick or whatever script that does all this in no time.
But hopefully someone got some use out of this, if so I would love to see some examples of your finished results, be it a photo of your printed poster or maybe just a desktop wallpaper.
You can of course apply this technique to something else, like your collection of Russian propaganda art, or use the images to make a photo mosaic.
That's it, thanks and feel free to ask any questions or comment if I left something out.
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Doh! Don't keep us in suspense! =O
The following is the remainder of that comment:
iTunes stores the images embedded in mpeg containers so we need to extract the images from the .itc mpeg files. The easiest way on a Mac is to download File Juicer (http://echoone.com/filejuicer/) then run File Juicer and drag-and-drop the files in the itunescovers into File Juicer.
A short while later you will have a â€Juice†folder on your desktop that contains a â€png†folder. Inside the â€png†folder are all your Album images.
You can now use Photoshop to scale the images to a common size and layout the images using Photoshop or Picasa2 as explained in steps 4, 5 and 6 of the Instructables instructions.
After writing this up I discovered the "iTunes Album Art Extractor" project (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=194469) which does the extraction and poster creation automatically.