resizing?

[Methanolic]

I was just wondering if anyone has experience with resizing many photos at the same time.

I did a search and found a program called "PowerCalc" which claims to be able to resize antire group of photos.....anyone ever used/heard of this?


I just don't need (most) pictures to 3.5 MB, especially for E-mailing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Russic]

If you have Photoshop you can create an action that involves resizing the photos. You can then take that action and create a droplet on your desktop. Drag your photos onto the droplet and it will perform the action on all of them. It's the only way I've ever done it.

[Rathji]

I use a batch resizing program for family photos and stuff I post online.

http://www.jklnsoft.com/

I am sure there are cheaper options that do mostly the same thing, but at the time I wanted something that worked without trying out a dozen options. It is pretty simple to use.

However, if you are running windows XP you should be able to use the Image Resizer Power Toy, I am not running XP right now so I cannot confirm for sure but I am 90% sure it does batch jobs.

[Methanolic]

Originally Posted by Rathji

However, if you are running windows XP you should be able to use the Image Resizer Power Toy, I am not running XP right now so I cannot confirm for sure but I am 90% sure it does batch jobs.

That's the one I found, the exe file is called PowerCalc. I guess I'll give that a try first as it sounds pretty simple yet effective.


Thanks Guys.

[SebC]

IrfanView can do batch resize and it's free. I've used it and it works.

[BloodFetish]

Originally Posted by SebC

IrfanView can do batch resize and it's free. I've used it and it works.

As can FastStone, which is my fave.

[sclitheroe]

ImageMagick is a fantastic set of command line image manipulation tools, for those of you who enjoy writing batch files and scripting stuff. It runs on a multitude of platforms.

I wrote a script that downloads a series of webcam shots of various Canadian towns, then uses ImageMagick to scale each one to the same size, and then ImageMagick again to composite the images onto one canvas, creating a single wallpaper sized image that gives me an east to west view across the country.

[Flames0910]

Originally Posted by Russic

If you have Photoshop you can create an action that involves resizing the photos. You can then take that action and create a droplet on your desktop. Drag your photos onto the droplet and it will perform the action on all of them. It's the only way I've ever done it.

That's kind of cool because you can make the applet on the desktop. I didn't realize you could do that.

I think you can also go file -> script -> image processor and resize a big batch.