Web resolution

[Eraser]

I have the need to take pics with my new Powershot A70 in a fairly high resolution as I sometimes need to produce good high quality prints. However my main aim is to display the pics on a webpage for publishing on my company intranet. I have to take approx 100 at a time. At the moment I copy them into a word document and then save as a webpage. This causes problems with my PC though, as the file size of the high res pics is very large. Is there an easy way of producing a low res pic from a high res without having to first open the high res pic on the PC

[Longwatcher]

First, I would seriously consider upgrading your PC.

Second, I only know of one software that I have used that I think could do what you want. Convert the image without opening it first. The old version of Thumbsplus I owned could do it, so I suspect the newer versions can as well.

If you don't want to buy new software or hardware, then I believe you may be out of luck. Canon's file viewer will allow me to convert RAW files of my 10D to low res jpegs, but not sure if it works with your camera the same. However, it will not allow me to resize the image so I still end up with a larger file then I need for web display, so I suspect that may not work for you either.

Again, I highly recommend you upgrade your computer (at least with more RAM)

[MiG82]

There are many shareware and freeware image editors that will do batch resizing.
I have found that Microsoft software is rubbish when it comes to creating web content. What kind of idiotic software makes you download 400 kB photos and then resizes them into sub 200 x 200 pixel photos by default?
I saw a web site entrance that was created with Frontpage and it had a couple of thumbnail pics on there. Of course, the page was many hundreds of kB because it was downloading the full photos and then resizing!!!
This is not how you make friendly software (which Frontpage is meant to be)! You can do it properly if you know how, but this idiotic setting is the default.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Likwise,. ACDSee will resize and recompress a group of images or an entire folder all with a few clicks.

Heres how I do it,. I COPY each file I want to resize to a different folder,.. (this too is made easier by ACDsee's file browser) now I have a folder with Duplicates of the full size sized files,. this way when I resize them I will still have the originals untouched,..

then use ACDsee browser to open the folder full of duplicates,. select them all,. and apply a batch resize.

At the same time you can rename those files in a batch process... very quick and easy.

[PacAce]

mig82 wrote:
There are many shareware and freeware image editors that will do batch resizing.
I have found that Microsoft software is rubbish when it comes to creating web content. What kind of idiotic software makes you download 400 kB photos and then resizes them into sub 200 x 200 pixel photos by default?
I saw a web site entrance that was created with Frontpage and it had a couple of thumbnail pics on there. Of course, the page was many hundreds of kB because it was downloading the full photos and then resizing!!!
This is not how you make friendly software (which Frontpage is meant to be)! You can do it properly if you know how, but this idiotic setting is the default.

FYI, MS Frontpage is a program used for creating web pages. It's not a photo editing program and hence can not be used to resize image files. AAMOF, Frontpage doesn't do anything with the image files other than point to it via links. What one CAN tell Frontpage to do is how it should display images in terms of size. Therefore, if one is not technically savvy enough, he could very well link his web page to, say, a 3,000 x 3,000 image file and then have it displayed as a 200 x 200 image. So, the next time you wait impatiently for a huge image file to load only to end up with a 200x200 thumbnail, don't blame it on Frontpage. Blame it on the guy who created the web page.

[PacAce]

eraser wrote:
I have the need to take pics with my new Powershot A70 in a fairly high resolution as I sometimes need to produce good high quality prints. However my main aim is to display the pics on a webpage for publishing on my company intranet. I have to take approx 100 at a time. At the moment I copy them into a word document and then save as a webpage. This causes problems with my PC though, as the file size of the high res pics is very large. Is there an easy way of producing a low res pic from a high res without having to first open the high res pic on the PC


If you have Photoshop 7, you can create a simple action to resize all your images in a certain folder and save the resized images into another folder, and you can run the action in batch mode. As a matter of fact, you can have the action not only resize the images to web resolution sizes but you can also create thumbnail images at the same time. That's how I create all my web images and thumbnails.

[w10d]

Also in Photoshop its worth looking at - File > Automate > Web page gallery. This will create the page/thumbnails/images, based on a selection of templates that can also inlude feedback forms, etc. If you have already selected images in the File Browser you can build the page from them.

[gsmx2]

eraser wrote:
I have the need to take pics with my new Powershot A70 in a fairly high resolution as I sometimes need to produce good high quality prints. However my main aim is to display the pics on a webpage for publishing on my company intranet. I have to take approx 100 at a time. At the moment I copy them into a word document and then save as a webpage. This causes problems with my PC though, as the file size of the high res pics is very large. Is there an easy way of producing a low res pic from a high res without having to first open the high res pic on the PC


100 approximately 1mg pictures dealt with in a Word Document at once. My computers pretty quick with a 128 mg video card, but still wouldn't try that.

PaintShop Pro 8.0 now includes a scripting language that allows you to batch process pictures without opening them. You could resize them and compress them in a couple clicks.

Good luck,

gsm x2