Reducing image size for web use

[Wolfboy]

Hi,

I recently purchased the A70 for holiday snapshots. I took about a 100 pictures at maximum resolution so I had the option to print any of the images.

However, I want to display them on a simple website for family and friends but, I have over a 100 MB of images.

Is there a quick (not one at a time) way of reducing the resolution/size of these images so I can put them online.

Regards

wolfboy

[Ikinaa]

wolfboy wrote:
Hi,

I recently purchased the A70 for holiday snapshots. I took about a 100 pictures at maximum resolution so I had the option to print any of the images.

However, I want to display them on a simple website for family and friends but, I have over a 100 MB of images.

Is there a quick (not one at a time) way of reducing the resolution/size of these images so I can put them online.

Regards

wolfboy


Hi,

One of my favorite programs for viewing, resizing, printing contact sheets, etc... is ACDSee ( http://www.acdsee.com )
It supports batch conversion.
You can download a trial version.
I really don't regret a cent of the money I spent for the soft

[cA70]

No offence but you might when you see Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com)

I have the free full version of that and the full version of Acdsee from a mates pentax cd. Thats there 'zoombroswer'.

It does everythign that ac does, and i like the html file it makes better. Batch conversion, rename, does the works. As to which one is better i cant tell you because i haven't tested them in depth, but i do know which one is cheaper.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Another vote for ACDsee,..

Been using since since Win3.1!!!!! :)

Select a bunch of images,. or an entire folder and you can resize them all at once,.. you can tell it to use height or widdth as the defining meaasurement for the resize,. (ie: make all images exactly 800 pixels wide regardless of height etc...)

And renaming is awesome!

[cA70]

Irfanview does that too, has the option for a set size keeping the ratio or not, or a scale, like 25% of origional.

[Ikinaa]

Hi,

I heard about irfanview too that it's good. Let's see how long it will be for nothing...
And please... don't start religious wars about software...
Mac, Windows and Linux-users do that often enough.
This forum is about (Canon) digital cameras, we're all people who like photography, not people 'fighting' for some software

( Ok... I'm slightly exagerating )

[cA70]

Not trying to start anything, if ACDSEE was free and they charged for Irfanview i would be totaly the other way. Just why pay for it if its free?

I've used both and there exactly the same. Same thumbnail, same batch, same everything.

the only reason i use irfanview is because i had it first. Used it and learn't were everything is then i got ACDSEE, does the same stuff so i didn't want to use two so i suck with 1.

If both were charged and at the same price then it would be a totaly different story.

How much is SCDSee out of interest, never looked at buying it so it never thought to look at it. If its dirt cheap and you prefer it mroe than Irfanview then go for that.

no war, just $ers. (dont have the bigest budget in the world)

[Ikinaa]

ca70 wrote:
Not trying to start anything, if ACDSEE was free and they charged for Irfanview i would be totaly the other way. Just why pay for it if its free?

I've used both and there exactly the same. Same thumbnail, same batch, same everything.

the only reason i use irfanview is because i had it first. Used it and learn't were everything is then i got ACDSEE, does the same stuff so i didn't want to use two so i suck with 1.

If both were charged and at the same price then it would be a totaly different story.

How much is SCDSee out of interest, never looked at buying it so it never thought to look at it. If its dirt cheap and you prefer it mroe than Irfanview then go for that.

no war, just $ers. (dont have the bigest budget in the world)

Ok... the 'religious wars' was just because I've seen them since I'm in computers and I DON'T want to be in one and surely not starting one. These and Flame-wars are simply stupid things.
Here is such a fantastic forum where I've learned so much.
so ...
FULL STOP now for me about this subject.

As is for spending money for Soft :
I don't use software for the only reason that it's free (you sure don't either, as I read in your post)
Software should be used if it's good, bad software shouldn't (natural selection), so one day, there will only be good software left (but I don't believe it...).
As for shareware... if I like it, use it, I pay for it.
I work for a software-company and develop software myself, so I do know how much work is in a bit of software.
Ok... this was now a bit off-topic but anyway:
here's some on-topic now :
If you want to use Irfanview, or ACDSee or another, it's up to You. People here on this board (about 11000 registered users I believe) can only give an opinion about a software, but you have to try for yourself and choose what's best for your needs.

[cA70]

I'm one day hopefully working in the same industry as you. At the moment i am still at uni learning, and to tell you the trust, i now know why software crashes all the time.

From a previous experience, people got though a software development course and at the end, still didn't know the difference between and int and a char, or how to declare a string. I'm not picking on the people, but they walked away as the same qualifications as the guy who lost his life by staying up to sunrise everynight teaching himself how to program.

Now i'm at uni its alot better, no so easy to slip though the net.

About paying for software, i really can't. With the money i make i realy can go and by software at all, let alone upgrade the computer. The reason is because i bought a new camera and alot of accessories. Can't have both and wont go back. Then comes cars, bikes, boats.


But for people who earn alot more than i do it might not be such an issue to buy it if is cheap.

Just dont see why you'd pay for something if something free does the exact same job, if its 10 times better than its a different story.

heres a ' . ' for u, FULL STOP, as to the whole debate. http://photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smile.gif Otherwise its going to be endless and were gonna get no where. Weve both got pics to take.

[stopbath]

Here are some other Digital Photograph handling programs:

PIE http://www.picmeta.com/whatis.htm
Thumbs Plus http://www.cerious.com/
Qimage http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/

All shareware (free demos)

[Wolfboy]

Big thanks to everyone for your replies, I have downloaded Irfanview and it works like a dream.

For me photography is about light and shadow, composition, depth of field, and most importantly the viewers reaction. The PC’s and software manipulation is secondary, the best advice I can give is to try and get it when you take the picture.

You can view some of my images at ‘www.woolf90.fsnet.co.uk’ ,none of them taken with a digital camera. It’s my first attempt at a website so don’t expect too much.

It’s not what the image looks like, but what it makes you feel.
Ansel Adams

[kad01]

Easy Thumbnails 2.6

http://www.fookes.com

[cA70]

light and shadow, composition, depth of field

All can be modifed or added in one way or another with photoshop, the best image editing software around.

[Wolfboy]

CA70,

I have to disagree, If you take a crap picture, you get a crap picture. I know it's a powerful product and I admit that I have only scratched the surface with it.
Anyway, sitting in front of a computer playing with pixels didn't seem to me to have much to do with photography.

Send me an example of a picture with poor composition and poor lighting, that you have fixed.



Martin@woolf.com

[Servant]

Did someone mention photoshop? :-) There is a free alternative called gimp for anyone who's interested. And no, I'm not starting another war :-p

BTW, I like irfanview too - free is just such a great price!

Servant
http://servantseven.fotopic.net/

[cA70]

wolfboy wrote:
I have to disagree, If you take a crap picture, you get a crap picture. I know it's a powerful product and I admit that I have only scratched the surface with it.
Anyway, sitting in front of a computer playing with pixels didn't seem to me to have much to do with photography.

Send me an example of a picture with poor composition and poor lighting, that you have fixed.


I'm not saying it can do magic, but if you want to create a big of DOF or adjust the light its its to bright or dark it can do that really well. Things like Irfanview can do it, but i dont think its anywhere near the quality of photoshop.

I'm not saying it can turn a 640 X 320 way over/under exposed intoa 2000res masterpiece.

"For me photography is about light and shadow, composition, depth of field, and most importantly the viewers reaction. The PC’s and software manipulation is secondary, the best advice I can give is to try and get it when you take the picture. "

What about if you didn't get it with the picture? Why not mod it in photoshop. I try to get it in the photo but my camera is limiting, no DOF with the A70 for distance shots, only macros.

And for the true power of what photoshop can do to you image, go to www.worth1000.com . Thats image/pixel manupliation, but not under the photography section, so where do u draw the line with editing?

Servant:
Would be interested in the software :)

[Servant]

Servant:
Would be interested in the software :)


oooops- Here's the address for "The Gimp": http://gimp.org/ :-)


Servant
http://servantseven.fotopic.net/

[phidong]

If you have Photoshop you can create a "droplet" which will allow you to drop a bunch of files into the droplet (which is just a small exe file) and it'll run the image through an action, effectively resizing the image. If you set the action up to use Photoshop's save feature rather than SAVE FOR WEB, I believe you get to keep your EXIF information as well, which might be nice for some of you who use photologs that allow EXIF information to automatically be displayed. :)

[Andy_T]

With BreezeBrowser and RAW files, you can convert them in batch and also change the image resolution.

Regards,
Andy

[Wolfboy]

I Should have made it clear, I don't use the A70 for real pictures, I bought it for the family to use. I used to let the kids have there own cameras and it was costing a fortune in processing costs.

For real pictures I use Canon SLR (film), If the light if flat or in the wrong direction I don't bother taking the picture. If it looks promising I normally take 8 or 10 pictures varying the exposure slightly or changing filters. If i'm lucky one them will be ok.

I know you can improve things with photoshop, but I think the less you need to use photoshop the better.

[cA70]

phidong wrote:
If you have Photoshop you can create a "droplet" which will allow you to drop a bunch of ...

Never seen that on photoshop, looks decent, might be easer. Do you have to open photoshop everytime to use it or just use the exe that it mkaes to mod images?


And i wouldn't buy a camera if i did everything on the computer, just helps when u didn't get it just right.