OT: Having fun with pictures

AgentZero · #1 November 24th, 2005, 04:23 PM

One of my friends runs a little market stall, selling various things that she imports from Brazil, and she's asked me to do up a little website for her. Of course, since a considerable bulk of her business is in lingerie, I agreed, provided my payment involved dinner with at least one of the models.

Anyway, I've got all the pictures for the website, which were sent to me direct from a digital camera, which means they're really big and about 1MB per jpg, which isn't exactly a web-friendly format.

So, I'm wondering if anyone knows of some sort of batch coversion software that can resize the images for me, since going through all 604 manually might actually kill me. Heart strain on this project overall is going to be a worry, actually. And then when I need to make thumbnails, it'll be a tad easier as well.

Suicide Junkie · #2 November 24th, 2005, 05:40 PM

Irfanview has batch conversion available.
Should be quite easy to use it to scale your pictures to whatever size you need.

David E. Gervais · #3 November 24th, 2005, 06:52 PM

Although it might be a pain to do them individually, Digital cam .jpg images tend to have some serious artifacting. I would take the time to load, remove .jpg 'noise', resize to a common height (maintaining the original proportions) and resave in a no-loss format like .bmp or .png. then do any post production that needs to be done and resave as .jpg with a 1x1x1 sample compression. (Most default .jpg is 2x2x2 sample compression which has a greater amount of artifacting.)

Anyways. Any job worth doing is worth doing well, and gee, hundreds of girls in lingerie that's got to be one tough decision,.. blind batch processing or one at a time to ensure (and aprieciate) the quality of the girls,..(I mean photos)

Nuf said, Cheers!

geoschmo · #4 November 24th, 2005, 07:17 PM

Of course you could always ask for volunteers to assist you with your project. I'm sure you could find a few helpful types willing to assist you with your heavy burden.

Slick · #5 November 24th, 2005, 08:33 PM

You know, I had a similiarly sleazy response as DEG and Geo all typed up before there were any responses in this thread

, but I said to myself: Nope; I'm not gonna do it. I knew it would happen, though.

Evil_Duckie · #6 November 25th, 2005, 05:05 AM

I use Directory Opus ( here ) in place of Windows Explorer. It has a batch conversion option for images, allowing you to set filetype and size. Works quite well.

Xrati · #7 November 25th, 2005, 12:04 PM

Quote:

David E. Gervais said:
Although it might be a pain to do them individually, Digital cam .jpg images tend to have some serious artifacting. I would take the time to load, remove .jpg 'noise', resize to a common height (maintaining the original proportions) and resave in a no-loss format like .bmp or .png. then do any post production that needs to be done and resave as .jpg with a 1x1x1 sample compression. (Most default .jpg is 2x2x2 sample compression which has a greater amount of artifacting.)

Anyways. Any job worth doing is worth doing well, and gee, hundreds of girls in lingerie that's got to be one tough decision,.. blind batch processing or one at a time to ensure (and aprieciate) the quality of the girls,..(I mean photos)

Nuf said, Cheers!

David is right. I had some CAD files I tried to convert in a batch program. While the program did convert the files, afterward I had to go in manually and touch them all up. Sometime that's why they call it WORK. If you enjoy what your doing then it won't seem like work at all. UNLESS you don't enjoy looking at girls in lingerie!!

Fyron · #8 November 26th, 2005, 08:13 PM

Cleaning up noise is a one by one operation, but resizing (assuming you just want the originals all downscaled directly without any cropping) and converting file formats are all batch operations. Doing those parts one by one is pretty silly IMO. Any noise created by conversion would have to be cleaned up one by one either way, and for reduced size web site pics it probably won't be that noticeable. Just make sure to save lossless (PNG) copies before the conversion to smaller jpgs as David suggests.

Photoshop and The GIMP (free) support batch processing, and I believe that Paintshop Pro might as well.

AgentZero · #9 November 27th, 2005, 02:20 PM

Out of curiousity, if I asked for volunteers to help me out with this, how many would I get?

Urendi Maleldil · #10 November 27th, 2005, 08:28 PM

You could do the bulk of the resizizing with Photoshop. There's a macro recorder in there somewhere you can use to apply the same settings to multiple files. I used it to change the color of the Cheaters race so they were gold instead of the Default silver.

I don't remember where it is, but I found it with the Photoshop help file. Afterwards you can do the less-repetitive retouching file by file.