Help me save time, I need a proggie that...
 

...will help me automate my cropping/resizing.

I've been doing this in Photoshop and it's fucking killing me... It's ok for 10-15 thumbs, but I need to do hundreds and if you multiply each thumb by 30 seconds you can imagine how much time is going to waste on this.

What I'm doing is this: I open a pic from a specific directory, I crop it rectangularily, then I resize it as a thumb. Then I need to save it as JPG for the web, with a predefined filename, in the same directory. If I save it as normal JPG it'll be 10x the size in kb, which is cause for a lot of time loss, as Photoshop saves it in the same directory if I choose "save as", but remembers the previous directory I saved in if I choose "save for web".

I've been trying to make a batch process out of this, but it doesn't work, as all the filenames are the same, but the output directories are different, and Photoshop doesn't seem to understand this...

So, if you can help me with pointing me to a program that will decrease the time I spend on this shit, I'd be eternally grateful.

Photoshop has actions you know? Also, ImageReady that comes with Photoshop allows batch processing.

I use ulead smartsaver pro for that, make sure to check it out and it contains the features you want before downloading.

Yes, I know, I tried those. Couldn't make a set of actions work for that. If you can do it, I'd be grateful if you told me how.

http://www.smalleranimals.com

thumbnailer

Beatiful little program. buy it, definitely worth the $25. The guy delivers it to you personally. Asks how you like it, he's a good guy.

Does thousands of images in seconds... perfect autocropping (just be sure to select the option.)

linkage

Try this gallery maker, even if you don't like the galleries it makes you can still batch process hundreds of galleries at the same time and just keep the thumbnails it creates.

I t auto crops and resizes to any dimensions you specify and the thumb quality is excellent, nice and sharp.

http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/ :thumbsup

best proggie for me too :)

ahhh love arles awesome prog :)

Thanks guys, those are all great. However, they're not helping me in any way... Maybe I should have specified that I need to crop and resize ONE image in each directory and I need to CHOOSE the area to be cropped and predefine the output filename to a custom one.