resizing for the web

[KartGirlsMom]

I've always scanned my film pictures at 72 dpi to put on my website. Now with my 10D I am taking pictures a 180dpi to 300dpi so they are suitable for printing. But I want a copy at 72dpi for my website. I have about 700 pictures I want to put up. Is there a quick way to resize them all without having to do each picture individually? I can't imagine how that would work, but I'm crossing my fingers that it is possible. I have PS7.

[PacAce]

The quickest and easiest way to do it, if it were me, is to go into "File | Automate | Web Photo Gallery". Once the Web Gallery window comes up, point your source to the folder containing your original images (hopefully they're already in JPG format instead of RAW) and specify a target folder which will contain your resized images. Next, go to the Options section and select "Large Images" from the dropdown box. You can then specify how you'd lie the images resized. If you also want thumbnails of a certain size, select "Thumbnails" from the dropdown and specify the thumbnail size.

After the web gallery is generated, you'll end up with an Images folder where your resized image files are kept and a Thumbnails folder where, obvioulsy, the thumbnails are kept. There's also a folder for the web gallery html pages but you can ignore them if you're not going to use the generated gallery.

[Bytes U]

I use a small freeware program called IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/ and it will batch process image reductions and compressions. Instead of thinking 72 DPI (common for scanners) for resizing, use a maximum pixel dimension and compression ratio.

[KartGirlsMom]

Thank you, thank you thank you!! That takes a 10 hour job to 15 minutes :D

[scottbergerphoto]

In PS CS and PSE2:
File>Save for Web
Select Jpeg, medium quality, and under size, set the widest side of the image to 800k.
Regards,
Scott