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Any way to process (reduce) many pics at once for web display?

kroger@princeton.edu

2005-01-11, 7:20 pm

Hello all,

I have several hundered pictuers taken with a digital camera at
1200x1600 high resolution, JPGs.

Is there a way to batch process them to 300x400 low resolution JPGs for
the web, without doing each one by hand in photoshop? Hopefully without
buying software?

Thanks much in advance for any assistance...

Jim

Tim Heaney

2005-01-11, 11:17 pm

kroger@princeton.edu writes:
>
> I have several hundered pictuers taken with a digital camera at
> 1200x1600 high resolution, JPGs.
>
> Is there a way to batch process them to 300x400 low resolution JPGs for
> the web, without doing each one by hand in photoshop? Hopefully without
> buying software?

You could make short work of that with ImageMagick

http://www.imagemagick.org/

Using its included convert routine, something like

find webdir -name "*.JPG" -exec convert -resize 300x400 \{\} \{\} \;

should do it.

I hope this helps,

Tim

Bruce Lewis

2005-01-12, 4:17 am

kroger@princeton.edu writes:

> I have several hundered pictuers taken with a digital camera at
> 1200x1600 high resolution, JPGs.
>
> Is there a way to batch process them to 300x400 low resolution JPGs for
> the web, without doing each one by hand in photoshop? Hopefully without
> buying software?

Depends what OS you're using. I'm happy with the results of djpeg,
pnmscale and cjpeg for Linux and Windows.

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