ot: jpg converter / resizer?

ushere wrote on 6/6/2008, 5:42 PM

any suggestions for a batch converter / resizer?

i know, could write script for ps, but all i want is to resize a huge amount of camera snaps to a more manageable size, and convert them to png in the process?

leslie

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blink3times wrote on 6/6/2008, 6:04 PM

PS has a batch converter system.... or at least mine does.

Former user wrote on 6/6/2008, 6:07 PM

Irfanview or Xnview.

Both are free and very good at batch work.

Dave T2

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/6/2008, 6:25 PM

i'm starting to like infraview. Does PS still have actions? I always found that useful, but in all honesty I'd rather use infraview to do stuff like that. smaller footprint & easier to use for that purpose.

Jøran Toresen wrote on 6/6/2008, 6:44 PM

You can also try FastStone Image Viewer 3.5: Tools-Batch Convert / Rename
It's free.

Jøran

Steve Mann wrote on 6/6/2008, 6:54 PM

Leave it to me to find the cheap way to do anything...
How does free sound?

Look at
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

musicvid10 wrote on 6/6/2008, 8:28 PM

Irfanview for me. Also free.

ushere wrote on 6/6/2008, 8:31 PM

so, downloaded them all, and settled on faststone - does exactly what i need without fuss....

thanks for the other solutions as well.

ps has always had actions, and i've used them extensively in the past, but this time round i thought just clicking on something would be so much easier (getting incredibly lazy!).

now, all i need is a prog that would have the photographer frame properly in the first place.

i usually give my clients the choice of working with the pics they supply, or allowing me some time to clean / crop / etc., them before i use them. once they've let me 'play' they always leave them for me to clean up. this job is from a new client and has started out with 100+ so badly shot hi res digitals that i'm NOT offering to do anything!

thanks again

leslie

Harold Brown wrote on 6/7/2008, 7:18 AM

I don't know about you but I have found that badly shot photos to me is perfectly acceptable to the client. It drives me crazy because I keep wanting to fix that stuff and it is hard for me not to because I don't want someone to think my work is bad!!

Jøran Toresen wrote on 6/7/2008, 9:54 AM

You may also take a look at FastStone Photo Resizer 2.6 (Freeware) This is "An image converter / resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermark to images in a quick and easy BATCH mode."

http://www.faststone.org/download.htm

Jøran Toresen