best batch picture resizer?

Blake · 01-06-2009, 11:44 PM

i used to use powertoys resizer with xp, which was simple and good quality, but my new rig runs vista and i've yet to find a viable solution for batch resizing. i was using 'prish resizer' but that thing sucked (pixelated images). what do you guys use? i'd prefer something that integrates into the shell and doesn't sacrifice quality.

O-cha · 01-06-2009, 11:49 PM

Photoshop....

Blake · 01-06-2009, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by O-cha

Photoshop....

that's what i'm using at the moment...but that takes more than 2 mouse clicks. i'm looking for the fast solution...

solefald · 01-07-2009, 02:31 PM

for i in *.jpg; do $new=`echo $i | sed s/\.jpg/\-resized\.jpg/`; convert -geometry 1024x768 $i $new; done

sandyeggo325i · 01-07-2009, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blake

that's what i'm using at the moment...but that takes more than 2 mouse clicks. i'm looking for the fast solution...

create an action...

Rick · 01-07-2009, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by solefald

for i in *.jpg; do $new=`echo $i | sed s/\.jpg/\-resized\.jpg/`; convert -geometry 1024x768 $i $new; done

habla "Human?"

is this a DOS command for a batch file?

chrisE92 · 01-07-2009, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blake

that's what i'm using at the moment...but that takes more than 2 mouse clicks. i'm looking for the fast solution...

(The following is for photoshop) Create a new action, and at some point you'll be allowed to set the action to a key (F2 - F12). Next time you wanna do a batch resize, just press the corresponding key

Gearcraft · 01-07-2009, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sandyeggo325i

create an action...

+1. but do some trial runs on copied files first as a precaution so you dont mess up your originals if you dont do the actions correctly.

solefald · 01-07-2009, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickc

habla "Human?"

is this a DOS command for a batch file?

lol... that's as human as it gets for me

wont work in DOS, but will work on any Unix/Linux based OS (including Mac OS). all you need is ImageMagick installed (convert command is a part of it).

Basically it takes every *.jpg (can be anything, really) file in the directory, resizes it to fit 1024x768 (it will do 768x1024 is the image is vertical), and will output to a file with "-resized" appended to the name.

DSC0701.jpg -> DSC0701-resized.jpg

Very basic shell one-liner. I mean i can add more logic to it, if needed, but i just decided to keep it simple....

Tondtar · 01-07-2009, 03:26 PM

I can send you a CD containing a copy of a simple photo editing software that comes with Cannon cameras. It has one the simplest batch file resizing tools ever. Also, although I don't use it much, I think the new version of Picasa has a similar feature (not 100% sure).

PM me your mailing address if you want the program. I have an extra copy ...wink wink

sandyeggo325i · 01-07-2009, 03:49 PM

oh yeah....acdsee works great too

JCTT · 01-07-2009, 03:57 PM

irfanview!

O-cha · 01-08-2009, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blake

that's what i'm using at the moment...but that takes more than 2 mouse clicks. i'm looking for the fast solution...

Yea it takes 2 mouse click whether you need to do 1 or 1000000000.

radix · 01-08-2009, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by solefald

for i in *.jpg; do $new=`echo $i | sed s/\.jpg/\-resized\.jpg/`; convert -geometry 1024x768 $i $new; done

Nice to see a fellow hacker here. Golf?

Code:

for i in *.jpg; do convert -geometry 1024x768 $i ${i%.*}-resized.jpg; done

The echo and sed are superfluous.

Works in ksh and bash.

c0nstant · 01-08-2009, 01:36 AM

http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

radix · 01-08-2009, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jh valley

http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

Better yet, I'd lay money on the fact that a spammer has created at least one thread advertising an image resizing tool here.

Blake · 01-08-2009, 03:57 AM

thanks for advice all

Quote:

Originally Posted by anmcguire

Better yet, I'd lay money on the fact that a spammer has created at least one thread advertising an image resizing tool here.

yea but i disregard those

radix · 01-08-2009, 05:00 AM

If you do have access to a *nix box with ImageMagick, this will work as a general procedure as well, but the apt-get command is only for Debian derived systems. Input in bold:

Code:

anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick # install ImageMagick
[sudo] password for anmcguire: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.27-7 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  imagemagick
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1421kB of archives.
After this operation, 4571kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main imagemagick 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3 [1421kB]
Fetched 1421kB in 2s (607kB/s)        
Selecting previously deselected package imagemagick.
(Reading database ... 116689 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking imagemagick (from .../imagemagick_7%3a6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up imagemagick (7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3) ...
anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
[sudo] password for anmcguire: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.27-7 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  imagemagick
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1421kB of archives.
After this operation, 4571kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main imagemagick 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3 [1421kB]
Fetched 1421kB in 2s (607kB/s)        
Selecting previously deselected package imagemagick.
(Reading database ... 116689 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking imagemagick (from .../imagemagick_7%3a6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up imagemagick (7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu3) ...
anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ md5sum *.jpg # get md5sums for images
3b9850b265cbe2c94bf987b70c746e99  dispersion1280.jpg
af606e66e99176e97c8ddd1beb788ddf  indiansummer1280.jpg
841d9bcf4445241dad894ec7d8f1e876  skysong2k721280.jpg
anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ identify *.jpg # get image info
dispersion1280.jpg JPEG 1280x1024 1280x1024+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 519.992kb 
indiansummer1280.jpg[1] JPEG 1280x1024 1280x1024+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 994.502kb 
skysong2k721280.jpg[2] JPEG 1280x1024 1280x1024+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 421.279kb 
anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ perl -wpi.bak -e0 *.jpg # backup images
anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ md5sum *.jpg *.bak # verify backup md5sums
3b9850b265cbe2c94bf987b70c746e99  dispersion1280.jpg
af606e66e99176e97c8ddd1beb788ddf  indiansummer1280.jpg
841d9bcf4445241dad894ec7d8f1e876  skysong2k721280.jpg
3b9850b265cbe2c94bf987b70c746e99  dispersion1280.jpg.bak
af606e66e99176e97c8ddd1beb788ddf  indiansummer1280.jpg.bak
841d9bcf4445241dad894ec7d8f1e876  skysong2k721280.jpg.bak
anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ mogrify -geometry 1024x768! *.jpg # convert images
anmcguire@anmcguire-desktop:~/Desktop$ identify *.jpg *.bak # verify conversion
dispersion1280.jpg JPEG 1024x768 1024x768+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 321.43kb 
indiansummer1280.jpg[1] JPEG 1024x768 1024x768+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 619.916kb 
skysong2k721280.jpg[2] JPEG 1024x768 1024x768+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 274.727kb 
dispersion1280.jpg.bak[3] JPEG 1280x1024 1280x1024+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 519.992kb 
indiansummer1280.jpg.bak[4] JPEG 1280x1024 1280x1024+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 994.502kb 
skysong2k721280.jpg.bak[5] JPEG 1280x1024 1280x1024+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 421.279kb 0.140u 0:02

If you don't care about the backup/verification steps just run mogrify. ImageMagick is powerful stuff man.

radix · 01-08-2009, 05:11 AM

BTW, Blake... IIRC, you run Mac OS X. You can download ImageMagick here:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/bi...ses.php#macosx

After installing, open a terminal and follow the instructions in my in either solefad's or one of my posts and you should be fine.

Subw00er · 01-08-2009, 01:53 PM

acdsee is great for any batch work like resizing or renaming.. its pretty smart with renaming.. try the demo.

Speedtrap · 01-08-2009, 01:56 PM

VSO is quick and simple....bring up file manager and VSO will resize it for you accordingly to what you need.

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radix you know he kills little girls like you 403 Rep 892 Posts Drives: - Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: - iTrader: (0)	BTW, Blake... IIRC, you run Mac OS X. You can download ImageMagick here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/bi...ses.php#macosx After installing, open a terminal and follow the instructions in my in either solefad's or one of my posts and you should be fine.
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Speedtrap Lieutenant Colonel 61 Rep 1,797 Posts Drives: A very fast car :) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: London iTrader: (0)	VSO is quick and simple....bring up file manager and VSO will resize it for you accordingly to what you need. __________________
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