Batch conversion of Pics

[stevieb]

I now got over 1000 pics, is there anyway i can concert them automatically . they are in a big res i want them in 800x600 to go on the web..

any sugestions of software

cheers steve

[luca brazzi]

What's your operating system?

[stevieb]

HI Steve

Windows XP mainly but can switch to linux

Cheers Steve (STC_B here) changed ID

PC were those lenses i suggested in the email Jessops own Brand

[luca brazzi]

XP Powertoys has a great utility you can use in Explorer....select all the pictures you want to resize .... right click > choose resize, then choose your size...open the advance options and choose if you want new pictures or just to resize the existing ones. Excellent little tool.

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp (look at the 6th one down on the right)
LB

[simpo two]

Select the files you want to convert, right click and select 'Resize pictures'. That gives you three size options, and off you go.

Edited to say: Arse!

>> Edited by simpo two on Sunday 28th December 17:34

[Bodo]

Stevie, if you have Linux, you can convert them on your command line with wildcards. One command - all pictures converted.

A useful explanation on how to use ImageMagick (which is part of most Linux ditributions) can be found here:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428

[Don]

Steve.

If you like you can try this program I wrote a year or so back..it takes a directory of images and generates (to another directory) a web-site complete with resized images/thumbnails/more or less compression/a style sheet and so on...

When I wrote it there was nothing about that did its job. Its probably a bit old-hat by now..let me know if you try it!

www.dwmhughes.demon.co.uk/paw/paw.zip

It doesn't need any fancy installing. Just unzip it somewhere and away you go...

[Don]

Oh...and I designed it to be as simple to use as I could...and then a fecked up the user interface so its a bit fiddly now.

Press the "Advanced" button when you see it and choose Fixed Width pictures which you can make 800 pixels wide. The rest should be reasonably self explanatory...just keep clicking on things until it does what you want.

[tvrforever]

The best program I've found for this is JAlbum at

www.datadosen.se/jalbum/

The good news is it's free as well! Will auto build your site with shed loads of template styles or you can script your own...

Very very good - I've used it for ages....

[Viper]

photoshop

[Ian_H]

Irfanview www.irfanview.com/ is a great graphics viewer, batch resizer, renamer, slideshow generator etc and it's free for personal use


Cheers
Ian