Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: BryanH on February 21, 2007, 02:24:18 pm
I've noticed a couple posts here and there with folks struggling to resize their photos. Microsoft has a bunch of utilities for XP that they call Powertoys. One of these is an image resizer. Try it out. Lets you select any number of pics, then with a right-click you can resize them to 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and even a custom setting. It preserves your original by saving the resized file as filename (small).jpg
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: ZMonet on February 21, 2007, 07:33:58 pm
Thanks Bryan. I had been using a program called Advanced JPEG Compressor but this is MUCH easier.
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: dr galaga on February 21, 2007, 08:07:37 pm
Thanks Bryan, I'll have to check it out. Too bad it doesn't come preinstalled on Windows.
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: bubba on February 21, 2007, 10:18:15 pm
That is pretty cool.. I use photoshop, but it doesn't do batch work....
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: sodaworks on February 21, 2007, 10:59:25 pm
Great tip, Thanks!!
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: Jim on February 22, 2007, 07:39:11 am
QUOTE
I use photoshop, but it doesn't do batch work....
Are you referring to Photoshop not having a Batch feature or this Micro$oft add-on not having a Batch...?
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: Skeleton Man on February 22, 2007, 02:36:43 pm
Photoshop does have a batch feature.. just a lot more complicated..
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: BryanH on February 22, 2007, 04:21:19 pm
this powertool will let you batch... just select the files you want and right click.
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: Jim on February 22, 2007, 06:02:47 pm
Not only does Photoshop have the Batch feature, but CS2 has an Image Processor which is very easy to use to create resized images!
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: bubba on February 22, 2007, 07:39:39 pm
I have CS2.. I guess I never explored this feature... I'm sure I only know about 1/10th of what can be done with CS2... is there a crash course on Photoshop?
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: Jim on February 23, 2007, 09:04:00 am
Here you go Ken...
And anyone else...
Place a bunch of photos that you recently took in a folder/directory, remember where this folder is located. It doesn't matter if the images are camera raw either.
Open PS CS2, File --> Scripts --> Image Processor
Dialog has four sections of options.
Section 1, select the folder where you placed the photos
Section 2, leave set to Same Location as this create a new folder inside the image folder named "JPG"
Section 3, Select "Save as JPEG", Quality set to 4, Seelct "Resize to Fit", and enter 700 in each of the text boxes for Width & Height. For now, make sure PSD & TIFF are not selected. These will only create another version of the image and place the file(s) into a newly created folder named after the file type...
Click the "Run" Button and watch Photoshop do the work! Or go have a cup of coffee if you have a lot of photos...
Enjoy !
And anyone else...
Place a bunch of photos that you recently took in a folder/directory, remember where this folder is located. It doesn't matter if the images are camera raw either.
Open PS CS2, File --> Scripts --> Image Processor
Dialog has four sections of options.
Section 1, select the folder where you placed the photos
Section 2, leave set to Same Location as this create a new folder inside the image folder named "JPG"
Section 3, Select "Save as JPEG", Quality set to 4, Seelct "Resize to Fit", and enter 700 in each of the text boxes for Width & Height. For now, make sure PSD & TIFF are not selected. These will only create another version of the image and place the file(s) into a newly created folder named after the file type...
Click the "Run" Button and watch Photoshop do the work! Or go have a cup of coffee if you have a lot of photos...
Enjoy !
Title: Cool tip for resizing photos!
Post by: SIGNGUY on February 24, 2007, 12:17:24 am
I just recently got a new computer with Vista on it.... Still not sure if I like it yet, but it's what comes with a new dell.. I'm loving the dual core thing though!!! Are there any programs for resizing that anyone knows about for vista yet? The Power tools site says it's only for XP...