Batch - Resize large amount of picture

[shoot_a_star]

Hello friends:

Would you please show me how to resize about 100 picture at the same time in CS2 or CS?

thanks

[Baadil]

If you are looking for simple resizing, you can use Windows XP's Power Toy. After getting it, simply select all files in Windows Explorer, right Click, and select Resize.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

(Now of course I assumed that you want a simple resize and have Windows XP installed).

[pcasciola]

In CS/CS2, record an action on one image (I have one called 'Web 800' that makes images 800 pixels wide), then open file browser, select the images you want to resize, select 'Batch', and select the name of the action you just defined. Within the batch dialog, set the desination to "Folder" and pick the folder where you want all the resized images to go.

[GSHodg]

Just posted this on this thread...http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=81925 a couple of hours ago...

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In CS2 you can use the File > Scripts > Image Processor to convert a whole folder of images. In the dialogue you can choose whether to convert to sRGB - and to answer you question you would leave this unticked to leave your images in your working colour space. Then in the Preferences area you would tick the "Include ICC Profile" tickbox to ensure the colour profile is saved with them

Other nice features of this script:

1.easy to resize the images to a maximum size of pixels on the long side - regardless of whether in portrait or landscape format.
2. the File > File Info information (description, keywords etc) stays with the saved images - something that seems to get removed when I use 'save for web'."
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You can choose the size, file type, colour space and actions to run on the script. Very powerful stuff. Enjoy!

Cheers

Gordon

[MattyB]

without reading others replys (which more than likely means i'm wasting my time writing this, haha)
i could never figure outhow to use droplets, mine always try and save as the same name! and overwrite each other, so i end up with 1 photo. :S

so what i do, is use 'file - automate - web photo gallery' in there, you can toy with everything,
(note: some templates allow more than 800 pixel wide images, some don't.)
and you can even throw in a simple copyright/watermark with the 'security' feature.

then goto the folder it saved it in, and delete all the html's and thumbnails (unless you want them)

walla.

[PhotosGuy]

Are you using this to make thumbnails, cause there is an easier way?