Help with software for batch processing

I am looking for a software program (other than photoshop) that can do what i'm currently using photoshop to do. I have an action that i run on batch across numerous folders that resizes the photos to a certain width and then adds canvas size to the top and bottom of the image. I usually process about 500 photos at a time using this action.

Can any other program do this?

PaintShop Pro has the ability to run scripts on a whole bunch of photos.

Image magick. It uses a command line interface and you can likely perform your task by issuing a single line of commands. Free, open source.

http://www.imagemagick​.org


Kirk

I know that this may seem like an odd question, but if PS can already do what you want why change? If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Alan

In imagemagick, this line of code will take all of the JPEGs in the working directory and resize them to 800 px wide (assumes they are in landscape format - this option has several variants that will fit your needs) and adds a white border to the top and bottom that is 30 pixels tall. It outputs a JPEG with a 3-digit sequential filename with "out" appended to it in the directory "output" inside the working directory.

convert '*.jpg' -gamma 0.45455 -resize 800 -gamma 2.2 -bordercolor 'white' -border x30 ./output/%03dout.jpg

Wilt wrote in post #16815148
PaintShop Pro has the ability to run scripts on a whole bunch of photos.

Thanks! Works perfect in paint shop pro!

BigAl007 wrote in post #16815551
I know that this may seem like an odd question, but if PS can already do what you want why change? If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Alan

The day job didn't want to fork out the money for another copy of Photoshop just to do a basic task. (Car dealership)

+1 for ImageMagick . The only down side is you need a shell to execute those command. (Linux or cygwin for windows).

For nicer GUI based Faststone Image resizer is available for free.