does anyone know of a program where i can import a selection of images and have it convert all of them to a certain pixel resolution (say from 1024x768 to 800x600). I know you can do this in say photoshop but im looking for a program where i can just do it to a group of images all at once as apposed to having to do each individually. any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Infraview has an excellent batch conversion utility
[url]http://www.irfanview.com/[/url]
as well as being a brilliant image viewing program it is waaaay quicker than using actions or a droplet in photoshop...
give it a go dude.. :D
since ive no massive need for infranview (ive had it before but uninstalled it after not touching the program for many many months) and allready own photoshop ill try and go with the action thing. Ok ive made my handy little action (funny, ive never actually used actions before. you learn something new everyday) but a quick tutorial on how to actually do the all files in a directory thing would help :P playing around i couldnt discover how
To do a directory, all you have to do is to choose a folder (and desitination!) when you start your batch process (file/automate/batch), making sure you choose your action also. This should show you how to do it.
http://www.creativemac.com/2002/04_apr/tutorials/psbatch.htm
quote:Originally posted by WiffleCube
This is one situation where an MSDOS program might make
things easier - it'd be possible to write a batch file that would
go through all your image files applying the program to each
one. This could be worth considering as a last resort.
Spoken like a true programmer :)
quote:Originally posted by mcdrewski
quote:Originally posted by WiffleCube
This is one situation where an MSDOS program might make
things easier - it'd be possible to write a batch file that would
go through all your image files applying the program to each
one. This could be worth considering as a last resort.
Spoken like a true programmer :)
It might be an interesting idea to write some code that
allows drag-and-drop batching on any programs that
you write; you could highlight a group of files and just
drag them onto your application (like recycle bin does).
You could setup an action in photoshop to do that which means you only need to press whichever key you assign the action to, for each resize & save. Youd need to record the action only once ( hit the record button on the action box, then bash away all your keystrokes, then stop recording ) and then all you need to do would be to open the pics and select them 1 by and hit 'F2' once on each document and it will do all the fiddly stuff for you....just an idea.
As for program to do it - not sure on that one [:(]