changing picture size in files

[Ballistic Banana]

Hi Guys/Gals

Is there a way you can change the size of pictures in a file without editing each one individually??

TIA



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>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Thursday 30th June 16:45

[size13]

You need a program that will do batch resizing - like irfanview

[_dobbo_]

Paintshop will batch adjust jpeg quality but not size, never used irfanview to resize so not sure about how it does it, I believe Fireworks will do size and quality in batches.

[docevi1]

www.irfanview.com, hit "b" and you can batch resize/rename and whilst you are there there you can change the quality.

[Bee_Jay]

The free photoresizer from www.faststone.org is fantastic, has loads of cool options too (watermarks etc.)

Other than that, you could just download the resizer powertoy for XP from Microsoft - just select a load of images and right-click

[simpo two]

Bee_Jay said:

Other than that, you could just download the resizer powertoy for XP from Microsoft - just select a load of images and right-click

That must be what I have. You get three choices of size and it's dead easy to use; no need to open other programs. However it does butcher the filesize a lot and quality suffers, so for quality 'hand' resizing I use PS.

[Ballistic Banana]

used the xp powertoy one, thanks for that guys.

Agree with simpo you do loose a bit of quality though. so the ones look really bad now so how do you send a file to a recycle bin

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[simpo two]

Ballistic Banana said:

Agree with simpo you do loose a bit of quality though. so the ones look really bad now so how do you send a file to a recycle bin

Oh really BB!

[twister]

_dobbo_ said:

Paintshop will batch adjust jpeg quality but not size

Versions 8 and upwards (and possibly downwards a bit - I don't recall if it was introduced with 8 or an earlier version) let you use a script during batch processing, so with a little bit of pre-batching script preparation you can batch adjust anything you like.