Need a program that can batch resize jpeg images (maintain quality)
 

whats a good (preferably small) app that can do this?

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Bump for the thread...I want to find this out. I did not find one so I decided that I will make one myslef...

But if there is one already doing this I will gladly buy it!

Egomancer

irfanview works pretty good.. depends ont he quality i suppose..

http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

post a pic and i will convert it for you and see if you want

ifranview does a great job, but can it also do batches? never noticed that option....

i use my own custom actions in photoshop, they also maintain the best quality because of the web based saving compression.

yes it can do batches but it does not preserve the quality of the image (best quality for the jpg).

Now I use Photoshop heavily scripted but even that does not completely automatize the work...

Egomancer

Agree with above...

Hi my name is Photoshop and Imageready... learn the scripting, which is fairly simple... your set.

we batch tons and tons of thumbs in photoshop almost daily, i have a lil custom actions written to add specific changes to thumbs then web base save,

it takes 1 click of a button, alot of people use this option, you just have to set it up properly.

yup it also does watermarks too.. and its free what could be better than that :)

it can also do batch editing like brightness and renaming as well as conversion , all in one step

Best little image converting program in my opinion. Been using it for years and love it..

How can I script the save for the wbe option in Photoshop? we tried a lot and we could not manage that...

Egomancer

Here is one vote for Photoshop too!

I use arles (google it) and it works great for resizing...

Just open a file
start recording a new action
do processing
save for web (choose settings)
close file (choose do not save)
stop recording action
done!

now, just open a bunch of files and choose to batch process the opened files. They will all be saved to the dir you choosed above (in save for web screen).

Thumbnailer does the job.

Aries............

Learn a bit of Perl and ImageMagick by far the most powerful!

I think I will write my own program to crop and resize, that way everything will work faster...

Egomancer

I think I will write my own program to crop and resize, that way everything will work faster...

Egomancer

or use the proggie called convert (*nix)

yup PS is the best its not a small application though

"Arles" for sure! http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/

You can also make pages of thumbnails with it and use it to watermark or label your images, too.

Brad

:thumbsup

This by far is the best tool for the job you talk about. It's multifolder processing also makes your batches a breeze!

Yep. Same here. With actions, you can do it fairly easily. No muss. No fuss.

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im on occasionally, almost always on icq though (hate trillian)

I am doing hand croping for about $50/1000pics. (depend on number of pics in series, number of folders, size of pics...)