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strider42

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I need to do a lot of image rezing at my job and am looking for software to help me do that. I actually use a PC at work, so if you know PC programs that will help, that would be even better. The photos I'm working on are sorted into various folders. I've found programs (such as iredsoft image resizer) that will allow me to import a folder and resize the all the photos in that folder.

But, I'd really like to have some additional functionality, such as being able to select a group of folders to batch resize all of their images and have them saved back to their original folders.

Another feature I've had a hard time finding is to be have the software recognize when the photo is already small enough. I need to keep the max size to around 1200x1200 pixels. Most of the photos I use are bigger than this, so there's no problem having it set everything to 1200 pixels wide. But sometimes they are smaller and most programs seem that they would blow up the image to that size, which isn't what I want to happen.

Like I said, I'm primarily looking for a PC solution, but if a great mac solution is available, maybe I can bring the photos home somehow and work on them from my mac (whihc runs OS 9 by the way)

Any help always appreciated.
 
Re: Batch image resizers?

Well, there is always Photoshop actions. Write your actions and go for it.

However, if you want the ultimate software, use Equilibrium DeBabelizer

DeBabelizer's website

The price for a new version is $499 and it is for the Mac or PC. I've used this program for about 7 years and I've had no problems with it.

Hands down the best batching tool. Of course, that is all it does.:p

-Haydn
 
Re: Re: Batch image resizers?

Originally posted by Java
Well, there is always Photoshop actions. Write your actions and go for it.

However, if you want the ultimate software, use Equilibrium DeBabelizer

DeBabelizer's website

The price for a new version is $499 and it is for the Mac or PC. I've used this program for about 7 years and I've had no problems with it.

Hands down the best batching tool. Of course, that is all it does.:p

-Haydn

Sounds good, but there's no way I'll get something that expensive approved. Thanks though.
 
I found a program off of VersionTracker called iPhotoBatch.
I don't know how much it cost :)D) but check it out.
 
If you don't mind the command line try installing the ImageMagick toolset. You can then use the mogrify tool to perform a whole lot of transforms, including resizing.

i.e. /usr/local/bin/mogrify -resize 800x600 *.jpg would resize all jpegs in the current directory to 800x600. As this is on the command line you can script (or even AppleScript it).

If you want to know more about this then follow these links.
Image Magick Site
Download for Mac OSX
 
Just to let you see what mogrify can do:

-bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/bin/mogrify
Version: ImageMagick 5.5.7 07/23/03 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 2003 ImageMagick Studio LLC

Usage: /usr/local/bin/mogrify [options ...] file [ [options ...] file ...]

Where options include:
-affine matrix affine transform matrix
-antialias remove pixel-aliasing
-authenticate value decrypt image with this password
-background color background color
-black-threshold value
forces all pixels below the threshold into black
-blue-primary point chomaticity blue primary point
-blur radius blur the image
-border geometry surround image with a border of color
-bordercolor color border color
-channel type extract a particular color channel from image
-charcoal radius simulate a charcoal drawing
-chop geometry remove pixels from the image interior
-colorize value colorize the image with the fill color
-colors value preferred number of colors in the image
-colorspace type alternate image colorspace
-comment string annotate image with comment
-compress type image compression type
-contrast enhance or reduce the image contrast
-convolve coefficients
apply a convolution kernel to the image
-crop geometry preferred size and location of the cropped image
-cycle amount cycle the image colormap
-debug events display copious debugging information
-delay value display the next image after pausing
-density geometry horizontal and vertical density of the image
-depth value image depth
-despeckle reduce the speckles within an image
-display server get image or font from this X server
-dispose method Undefined, None, Background, Previous
-dither apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to image
-draw string annotate the image with a graphic primitive
-edge radius apply a filter to detect edges in the image
-emboss radius emboss an image
-encoding type text encoding type
-endian type LSB or MSB
-enhance apply a digital filter to enhance a noisy image
-equalize perform histogram equalization to an image
-extract geometry extract area from image
-fill color color to use when filling a graphic primitive
-filter type use this filter when resizing an image
-flip flip image in the vertical direction
-flop flop image in the horizontal direction
-font name render text with this font
-format type image format type
-frame geometry surround image with an ornamental border
-fuzz distance colors within this distance are considered equal
-gamma value level of gamma correction
-gaussian geometry gaussian blur an image
-geometry geometry perferred size or location of the image
-green-primary point chomaticity green primary point
-implode amount implode image pixels about the center
-interlace type None, Line, Plane, or Partition
-help print program options
-label name assign a label to an image
-lat geometry local adaptive thresholding
-level value adjust the level of image contrast
-limit type value Disk, Map, or Memory resource limit
-list type Color, Delegate, Format, Magic, Module, Resource, or Type
-log format format of debugging information
-loop iterations add Netscape loop extension to your GIF animation
-map filename transform image colors to match this set of colors
-mask filename set the image clip mask
-matte store matte channel if the image has one
-median radius apply a median filter to the image
-modulate value vary the brightness, saturation, and hue
-monochrome transform image to black and white
-negate replace every pixel with its complementary color
-noop do not apply options to image-noise radius add or reduce noise in an image.
-normalize transform image to span the full range of colors
-opaque color change this color to the fill color
-page geometry size and location of an image canvas
-paint radius simulate an oil painting
-fill color color for annotating or changing opaque color
-ordered-dither channeltype LOWxHIGH
ordered dither the image
-pointsize value font point size
-profile filename add ICM or IPTC information profile to image
-quality value JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level
-raise value lighten/darken image edges to create a 3-D effect
-random-threshold channeltype LOWxHIGH
random threshold the image
-red-primary point chomaticity red primary point
-region geometry apply options to a portion of the image
-resample geometry change the resolution of an image
-resize geometry perferred size or location of the image
-roll geometry roll an image vertically or horizontally
-rotate degrees apply Paeth rotation to the image
-sample geometry scale image with pixel sampling
-sampling-factor geometry
horizontal and vertical sampling factor
-scale geometry scale the image
-scene number image scene number
-seed value pseudo-random number generator seed value
-segment values segment an image
-shade degrees shade the image using a distant light source
-sharpen radius sharpen the image
-shear geometry slide one edge of the image along the X or Y axis
-size geometry width and height of image
-solarize threshold negate all pixels above the threshold level
-spread amount displace image pixels by a random amount
-stroke color graphic primitive stroke color
-strokewidth value graphic primitive stroke width
-swirl degrees swirl image pixels about the center
-texture filename name of texture to tile onto the image background
-threshold value threshold the image
-thumbnail geometry create a thumbnail of the image
-tile filename tile image when filling a graphic primitive
-transform affine transform image
-transparent color make this color transparent within the image
-treedepth value color tree depth
-trim trim image edges
-type type image type
-undercolor color annotation bounding box color
-units type PixelsPerInch, PixelsPerCentimeter, or Undefined
-unsharp geometry sharpen the image
-verbose print detailed information about the image
-version print version information
-view FlashPix viewing transforms
-virtual-pixel method
Constant, Edge, Mirror, or Tile
-wave geometry alter an image along a sine wave
-white-point point chomaticity white point
-white-threshold value
forces all pixels above the threshold into white

By default, the image format of `file' is determined by its magic
number. To specify a particular image format, precede the filename
with an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the
image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). Specify 'file' as
'-' for standard input or output.
 
if you know your way around PHP you could quite easily create a PHP script to do it for you using GDlib, but the resizing in PHP is pretty nasty; i wrote a script for an online image gallery that'll handle batch uploads in gzip'd files that you could use?
 
i'm pretty sure there are some applescript droplets that allow you to do this to a single file or a whole folder of files. also, 10.3 will include a new library called vImage that takes care of things like this, allowing you to do nifty things like create a folder that will resize/modify every image dropped into it.
 
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