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05/03/2005 06:12:29 AM · #1 |
Here's the deal:
The last weekend I shoot a moto concentration and know I'm going to put the proofs on the net, so people can go to my page and choose.
So my question is: is any possible way to automate the process of resizing the photos from 3000x2000 pixels to a size more user friendly, like 540x360 pixels. And if it's not ask too mutch to put a watermar on all of them. Because doing this to 300 phots is quite a pain.
I've seen that Nikon Capture has some abilities in this fiels and Photoshop also, but I haven't tryed it yet.
Can anyone help?
Thank's in advance.
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05/03/2005 06:24:09 AM · #2 |
I write a work flow routine in Photoshop
in this I resize save and close the original.
it does mean you have to open each image up sepaaratly, but you can do an image in about 5 seconds.
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05/03/2005 07:09:00 AM · #3 |
If you're looking only for 'proofs' that are straight reduced versions of the originals, NikonView OR Nikon Capture will do the job and save to a separate folder of your choosing.
I'm familiar with NikonView but know Capture also has the ability and will even apply a set of adjustments to all the images if you need it.
In NikonView, you need to select ALL the photos you want copied and resized and then go to the Tools Menu and choose "Copy and resize as JPEG file(s..." When the dialog for that opens up, you can browse to the folder you want the copies saved in and there are a number of re-sizing options and a quality slider to control file size. Once you've chosen the settings you want, click on START and go get a cup of coffee or tea -- it'll be a few minutes but much quicker than doing it manually and it's FULLY automated.
Good luck! |
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05/03/2005 07:11:59 AM · #4 |
I use the Automate feature in Photoshop.
Firstly I record a basic action (using the Action tools palette) which sizes the image. I'll use either Image> Size or File> Automate> Fit Image if my various images are at different sizes and I just want to specify largest width and height but retain ratio.
Then I use File> Automate and specify which folder the originals are in, a new folder to save the resized images to and which action to apply.
Very fast.
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05/03/2005 08:01:48 AM · #5 |
| I use Irfanview to do that when I want to post a large group of shots to my smugmug account. It's free, and very user friendly. Quite a useful little program. Download it at //www.irfanview.com (and I have never had problems with viruses or spyware from there, either). :o) |
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05/03/2005 08:41:53 AM · #6 |
All of these great programs will do it easily, and be useful in other ways:
Breezebrowser, www.breezesys.com
Bibble, www.bibble.com
Thumbsplus, www.cerious.com
They all have trials, so you can use them free for a month or so, but none are free long term (though they are all reasonably priced). Breezebrowser's trial is more restrictive than the others.
Irfanview, as Laurie suggested, is free, though I don't know if it processes RAW (which is why I've used and over the years purchased the above three programs). Then again, you didn't say your shots were in RAW!
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05/03/2005 01:12:42 PM · #7 |
| Thank's for the help. If any one wish to complement with their experince please do. |
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05/03/2005 01:46:55 PM · #8 |
Microsoft's powertoys for windows is free and will do it very easily...
look for it here...
Get the other powertoys too they are very helpfull...
Message edited by author 2005-05-03 13:48:15. |
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05/03/2005 01:48:26 PM · #9 |
I'm a fan of Irfanview too - it's not a very flashy program, but has some useful tools... you can do quite a few functions as a 'batch' job - resizing images, renaming, change file type, compressing. You can even change things like brightness, colour depth. The only problem I found was if you have a mixture of landscape and portrait images (although you can resize using percentages).
I've used it for webdesign too - it has a Thumbnails view (a bit weird as it opens in a seperate window) which is just like a file manager, but has the option to save a group of thumbnails as a HTML page. Then you just have to edit the page a bit, or copy the table with the thumbnails onto your own webpage |
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