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iwantchixx · 03-09-2005, 05:56 PM

Arles is probably more than you need and it's compression is TERRIBLE.

Go grab IrfanView. http://www.irfanview.com/download_sites.htm and install. Set it to view your jpegs, gifs, jpgs and bmps as default. You'll love how easy this thing views images. You can scroll through them all within the folder with your scroll wheel and arrow keys. This program when used as a viewer is much quicker and easier to use than the stock windows preview tool.

Open the first image you want to shrink then go to 'file' then 'batch conversion/rename'

Once in there click 'options' beside the 'Output Format' menu item and chose 74 for quality and click 'ok'.

Now set your output directory to something that's easy to find each time you use it. I made a folder on my desktop called "Out" for this stuff.

next you will see buttons along the top left side. Click 'add all' then "start"

From now on all you have to do to shrink the images is open the first image, click "add all" then start. The whole process takes about 30 seconds on a batch of 100 large images.

If you need to resize any images click the 'use advanced option" checkmark and click "set advanced option" and select "set both sides to" and enter your max image length in both the width and length fields. These numbers should be the same. So with an example of you wanting all images to be no bigger than 800 pixels long all images will end up either 800x600 or 600x800 depending on the aspect ratio of the content given to you. Make sure "preserve aspect ration" , "use resample function" and "don't enlarge smaller pictures" are all checked.
Now click ok and then do the "add all" and "start" thing.

Any time you don't want it to resize on any given batch just uncheck "use advanced options"

Hope all of this is of any help to you. This is the ONLY application that's not hard on system resources and is simple to use and has very good compression. best of all. IT'S FREE!

03-09-2005, 05:56 PM
iwantchixx Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Boonies Posts: 12,860	Arles is probably more than you need and it's compression is TERRIBLE. Go grab IrfanView. http://www.irfanview.com/download_sites.htm and install. Set it to view your jpegs, gifs, jpgs and bmps as default. You'll love how easy this thing views images. You can scroll through them all within the folder with your scroll wheel and arrow keys. This program when used as a viewer is much quicker and easier to use than the stock windows preview tool. Open the first image you want to shrink then go to 'file' then 'batch conversion/rename' Once in there click 'options' beside the 'Output Format' menu item and chose 74 for quality and click 'ok'. Now set your output directory to something that's easy to find each time you use it. I made a folder on my desktop called "Out" for this stuff. next you will see buttons along the top left side. Click 'add all' then "start" From now on all you have to do to shrink the images is open the first image, click "add all" then start. The whole process takes about 30 seconds on a batch of 100 large images. If you need to resize any images click the 'use advanced option" checkmark and click "set advanced option" and select "set both sides to" and enter your max image length in both the width and length fields. These numbers should be the same. So with an example of you wanting all images to be no bigger than 800 pixels long all images will end up either 800x600 or 600x800 depending on the aspect ratio of the content given to you. Make sure "preserve aspect ration" , "use resample function" and "don't enlarge smaller pictures" are all checked. Now click ok and then do the "add all" and "start" thing. Any time you don't want it to resize on any given batch just uncheck "use advanced options" Hope all of this is of any help to you. This is the ONLY application that's not hard on system resources and is simple to use and has very good compression. best of all. IT'S FREE!