Mass Image Resize

[_Bat_]

Never come across software that does this before, but need it now

 

Is there any software were I can specify a width of the image for instance and it resizes all the images keeping the ratio with the height?

 

Thanks

 

James

[_Bat_]

K, for anyone interested, I found one. Its found here:

 

http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize

 

I needed it to resize my sisters wedding photos so they would be suitable to put on a website and it did the job very well.

[webman]

IrfanView

[CyberNerd]

http://www.imagemagick.org

[_Bat_]

Whats really odd is that I knew about both of those pieces of software, but I didn't realise IrfanView has facilities for batch resize (I had a very quick browse though the program but couldn't see anything) and I didn't think about imagemagick at all .

 

I'll bear in mind for future reference though

 

Thanks

[Midget]

just use the microsoft image resizer. select the pics in explorer, right click "resize" and pick your new size.

[_Bat_]

just use the microsoft image resizer. select the pics in explorer, right click "resize" and pick your new size.

 

Is this an XP Pro only feature? I don't have that, I was wondering why I'd never seen it before.

 

Normally I'd resize pictures using an image editor like The GIMP, but when I've been given scores of photos it becomes tedious .

 

I managed to get the website up and running in four hours though... by far beats the >100 hours I had to use for the school website.

[Midget]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

[_Bat_]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

Thanks, I dunno why i've never come across that before. Can't download it on this PC for certain reasons which shall remain nameless, but i'll be sure to give it a go at work

[Midget]

ahh stolen the neighbours laptop whilst they are out and don't want them to know you've been playing with it when you give it back just before they get home.

[plugged_in]

I use photoshop or fireworks.

 

If its a CMS and other people are uploading images i would imagemagick to do the resize.

[SimpleSi]

Just needed a program to resize pictures and remembered this thread

 

That powertoy from Microsoft is very nice and does the job of resizing giga-pixel images for use on websites very simply and easily without teaching my users how to use GIMP

 

regards

 

Simon

[Scotmk]

ACDSEE

 

Phototshop

[Midget]

That powertoy from Microsoft is very nice

 

Yes, it is. Now suck my c*ck. [/team america]

[limbo]

All our students upload their pictures to our website to use as their avatar so I daily have to resize a dozen or so images and Photoshop is my current preferred method - easy and quality results.

 

There is an alternative for anyone interested - but not an easy one.

 

This is probably available in php too but that is outside my knowledge. In ASP.NET there is a function to resize an image to display on the website - but rather than downloading the full image and resizing it like normally happens when you set the image size on a website it actually resizes it server side before it sends it to the client.

 

This does away with the task of producing additional thumbnail pictures etc.

 

Not got any more info on it at the moment - but now you know about it (assuming you did not already - and I am sure many of you do) you can go discover.

[alan-d]

Try this - Thumb-Nail-It

 

Quick and easy

 

[Tuxguy]

For a quick job of about 10 images (it crashes if it has to do too many, but I'm sure it'll get better) try this one - PLiska Image Resizer, from here PLISKA. I like the ease of use.

 

Ian R

[OverWorked]

Unidream PowerBatch

 

It looks very powerful, but I only used ot for one job.

 

I used it a couple of years ago to produce a CD of images for our school's anniversary. I resized hundreds of images to fit on one CD.

[CyberNerd]

for image in *.jpg; do target=`echo $image | sed s/.jpg/_small.jpg/`;
convert $image -quality 25 -size 300x100 $target; rm -rf $image;  done

[SimpleSi]

for image in *.jpg; do target=`echo $image | sed s/.jpg/_small.jpg/`;

convert $image -quality 25 -size 300x100 $target; rm -rf $image; done

mm- I think right-click - resize works better for teachers and pupils

 

regards

 

Simon

[linkazoid]

Have you tried Microsoft Image resizer does exactly what it says on the tin!

 

.Link

[PEO]

Never tried the ms photo resize till now. used couple of mentioned tools but this seemed more handy for rewriting over origionals without any problems.

 

Cheers

[zag]

I use the XP powertoy to secretly resize staff photos on our network, works great

[RabbieBurns]

Im trying to use the MS image resizer, but as there is so many thousands of pictures, the right click doesnt appear, it just hangs.

 

Is there any way to use the image resizer by cli instead?

 

Or is there one i can use that will trawl the whole share and resize ?

 

Cybernerds command would be ideal, is there a windows equivelent command?

[Ric_]

@RabbieBurns: CygWin can be used for this I think (see Cygwin Information and Installation ). I think you can also use GIMP (see GIMP - Batch Mode )