Creating circular thumbnails in the terminal
Circular pictures (like the one to the right) has become increasingly popular on the web. We have, for example, included circular pictures in RITMO’s annual report, and we therefore also wanted to use circular pictures in a presentation at our upcoming LARGO conference. The question, then, is how to create such circular pictures? The circular pictures in the annual report are made through a CSS overlay. So if you try to right-click and save one of those, you will get the original rectangular version. It is, of course, possible to add circular thumbnails in the presentation software, using the circular crop function in PowerPoint or add mask function in Keynote. The challenge with these, however, is that you may get into trouble if you move your presentation from one program to another. I often prefer to make presentations in Google Presentation, and there is no such feature there. ...