Preserved Topic: batch image resizer

Okay, so I have a need to resize a ton of pictures, all from 640x480 down to 320x240. Can anyone recommend a program that allows batch resizing and maintains a good picture qu****y?

a program that I can't recommend enough: Thumbs Plus, by Cerious Software.

It is a cataloger, thumbnailer, batch-processor...it creates html files for linking all your thumbnails to the full images, it has some (very)basic image editing capabilities, it.....does *tons* more (it even gives you the hex code for any color in an image which the cursor is over....)

check it out (the website sucks, but you can't have *everything*)

?Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative? -- Oscar Wilde

[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 07-10-2001).]

Well, I don't really have the link, but I used to use a command line tool to do lots of nice image manipulation thingies including resizing and changing from format to another...


Image Alchemy from Handmade Software.

Online demo.
Download url.

Why not Photoshop?

File > Automate > Batch

I haven't worked with it much but it seems to be ok.

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or in photoshop6, i like the file>automate>web gallery tool. even sets up a .htm file for ya with the files and thumbs.

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Yeah - why not Photoshop? Put all the big images in a folder,and create a new folder for the processed files. Open one of them. Create and name a new action. Start recording, and do whatever you want to the open image - resize, sharpen, rotate, save with a jpeg compression or gif color reduction, whatever. Push the stop button, and it's a beautiful thing. So long as all the images need to have the exact same thing done, you're set.

I'd throw out the first processed image so the script doesn't hiccup when it runs. Then File>Automate>Batch. Select which action to run (it usually figures the most recently created action is the one you want), which folder to find the originals, which folder to put the processed ones into. If you have nested folders, you can set it to ignore them or to go into them. You can override the final folder if later you want to run the action with a different destination.

Off you go. "Bob's your uncle" as they say.

Wow.. weird.. Bob's my Uncle too!

Hey cool guys! I had no ideas that Photoshop can actually do that!

lallous... "Photoshop is god" remember that. words of wisdome from one who is silent...

Completely off topic, but the phrase Steve and VP used was from a 19th century British Prime Minister, Lord Robert Stanley. Apparently, he was a great one for nepotism and most people holding government jobs at the time got it for just this reason. Therefore, the phrase "and Bob's your uncle" came to mean that "everything was alright", i.e. you were assured a job.

APF, Gaurds! Gaurds!, pp. 29/27

I also want to recommend Photoshop as a good batch processing prog.

Whoa - that Photoshop method ROCKS. Several hundred photos done real quick. I feel like an idiot for not thinking of that myself.

Thanks for the info, guys - this REALLY helped.