velohead66

Just had 5 weeks holiday in the uk (living in Aus) including British GP at Silverstone, and Goodwood too. Other stuff too like 10 days in Chamonix.

We bought a new Panasonic camera (small in size), and took about 700 pictures, perhaps a bit overkill I know.
I get home and after a lot (under-statement) of hassle we manage to transfer the pics to my PC.

Unfortunately, each pic is a massive 5 mb, which is just under 3.7 gb all in.

This is a ridiculous size and I need to reduce each to a reasonable size.
Doing each pic seperately would take days, if not weeks.
Can I do this as a 'global' action ?

I use XP on the PC, and have photoshop v6.0

Thanks.

corradoboy

Google 'photoshop automate batch', this was my top hit....

Batch Processing and Recording Actions in Adobe Photoshop

IWatkins

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

Download and install "Image Resizer". Then select a load of images, right-click and select resize and modify the options to taste. Works a treat.

Or if you do have Photoshop, you should be able to write a tiny scripts to load and image, resize it, save it, close it and so on.

Cheers

Ian

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Irfanview is great for batch resizing pictures with plenty of options to define the size of the picutre and file after.

IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

mystery_machine

iTrader: (1)

personally i don't think 5mb photos are massive, and with storage so cheap nowadays why would you want to reduce quality of the original photos? But i agree with STi wanna Subaru Irfanview is good at batch resizing and its free

corradoboy

I would think he wants to keep his original hi-res images, but have low-res versions suitable for web/email etc. I have a few 'actions' set up in my Photoshop which allow me to select a folder of images and a set of actions which create various sizes to suit things such as Photobucket, email and my TV resolution, with it automatically opening each file, doing the necessary, saving it to a new relevant folder and closing the file, whilst I either get on with other work, or go for a coffee. A mate sent me 700 files once in a zip'd archive and thought I would be a few days sorting it for him. He was flabbergasted when I sent the resized images back within 1/2 hour, and had eaten my lunch whilst the 'pooter sorted it

velohead66

Thanks Guys, seems I do have a few options then.
Thank Goodness !!!

Yep, still have the high definition on DVD.