Photo resizing in bulk with folders?
Submitted: Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:04
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Hi, does anyone know of an effective and simple drag and drop photo resizing program that will do pics in bulk? Had a quick search of the archives, but I'm after something that will reduce a 1MB pic down to say 100K - 150K image suitable for e-mailing.
I currently use Photoshop and I've set up a macro to make things quicker, but there must be something simpler around.
What I want to do is take a whole pile of high res images, download them to my PC and have the ability to simply select all the pics at once and drag them to into a program that keeps the originals at hi-res, but also creates low-res duplicates for e-mailing. ie: the best of both worlds.
I also want this program to identify the lo res images by keeping the original title, but adding 'LR' (lo-res) to the end. I'd like all of these lo res files to automatically be sent to a new subfolder created in the source folder eg: I download 10 hi res pics and title them "Collie 1", "Collie 2" etc. I want my main 'Collie' folder to end up with the originals AND a sub folder of 150KB images with 'Collie 1 LR', 'Collie 2 LR' etc as their titles to e-mail to friends.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Reply By: Notso - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:28
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:28
Go to Google and download Picassa2. It has all the functions you are looking for. A bit to much detail to talk about it all here www.google.com or just search for picasa2 in your search engine should do it.
You can bulk resize and email as
well as batch rename. I am not sure that you can automatically send em to a new folder though, never tried
Luck
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Reply By: Member - Paul P (Bris) - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:31
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:31
G'day
have a look at ACDsee. It is not free but will do what you want. ACDsee
Regards
Paul
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Reply By: Sand Man (SA) - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:45
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:45
Many of us on the
Forum use "Easy Thumbnails". This is an easy program to use and you can download it free from the Web.
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Follow Up By: Member - Alan H (QLD) - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 16:40
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 16:40
Sabd Man
I took your advice and grabbed Easy Thumbnails. It works very easily and does a great job.
Thanks for sharing such useful information
Alan
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Reply By: sav - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:48
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:48
Irfanview is the program I use.
Very easy batch conversion function as part of the product - and its free (the best price).
Sav.
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Follow Up By: Member - t0me (WA) - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 20:05
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 20:05
I second that one, I've used it for years. Brilliant, free, has lots of good features (and plugins), free, very small, easy to use, free.
Oh and the best thing about it, its free :-)
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Reply By: Member - Blue (VIC) - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 14:22
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 14:22
Microsoft powertoys... Visit the microsoft website and download the image resizer... You can group a heap of pics in a folder, highlight the lot and resize then very quickly... Will make a 1.3Mb pic about 60kb.
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Reply By: Member - Phil G (SA) - Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 19:29
Saturday, Oct 29, 2005 at 19:29
Lots of options out there.
I use photo resizer
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Reply By: Member - MrBitchi (QLD) - Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:04
Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:04
Its built in to XP's Windows Explorer.
Simply go to the folder containing the pictures, click in the folder, then press "Control + a" to select all, then right click and select "Resize Pictures" from the context menu.
You can select from a few presets or do your own custom resize.
Cheers...........
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Follow Up By: myfourby - Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:15
Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:15
You must have a special version of XP - the "Resize Pictures" option doesn't appear for me.
Perhaps you have some type of after market graphics program installed that has given you these options?
-myfourby
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Follow Up By: Member - MrBitchi (QLD) - Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:20
Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:20
Ooops, yes your right. It's part of Powertoys. This Link explains how it works and Powertoys link is where to get it.
Powertoys is a great utility with lots of extra functionality for windows.
Cheers.....
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Reply By: Member - David 0- Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 22:29
Monday, Oct 31, 2005 at 22:29
Gee, in my opinion, you couldn't get anything easier to use than Photoshop CS2 when it comes to automating the very task you asked about. The price may pull you up though :-)
Cheers
David
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Follow Up By: Member - MrBitchi (QLD) - Tuesday, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:08
Tuesday, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:08
Not wrong... current price is about $990. Powertoys is free ;-)
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Reply By: Wombat - Wednesday, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:06
Wednesday, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:06
If you've written a Photoshop action why don't you just go File - Automate - Batch and specify the folder of files you want to apply your macro to and the destination folder. It's how we do it and we're processing PSD files which are up to 500Mb.
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Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Wednesday, Nov 02, 2005 at 15:54
Wednesday, Nov 02, 2005 at 15:54
Thumbs +.. You can setup Batch jobs to do folders, or selected photos in 100's to any size you want, you can rename them at the same time, you can do all sorts of crap too..
YMMV.
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