Scale bunch of photos at once. How?

[Kdar]

I want to scale bunch of photos (from Digital camera) at once. Is it possible?

I went to one trip lately, and took few hundreds photos, while I was there, by my camera. I don't really feel like scaring them to smaller size one by one.

I need to scale them to a smaller size to send them by e-mail to my friends and such.

Anyone know some kind of software that can do this? I checked with Gimp and didn't see any function that can accomplish this. Looked in Fireworks too, but didn't find anything as well.

 

[Spit-wad]

There is definitely software for that... someone at work does it all the time. I'll have to ask him what he uses.

 

[Tim]

On Fireworks you could load them all into one picture, resize them together, then select them all and "Distribute to Frames".
The go File > Export > Frame to Files
That way all the individual frame swill save as seperate files. Downside is if you have already renamed them, the names will be lost

 

[zedman3d]

Easy stuff.
IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

Download that and install.
Its in the first menu under batch convert. [PIC]

 

[Kdar]

Cool. Thanks. I will try both of those solutions.

I tried to using some other free software for this last night. But it didn't compress files to right size. It should have been around 300-400k, but it would save each photo at around 1M.

 

[synergy]

I don't know if you have Photoshop, or access to it, but you can use the Image Processor to batch process files. Go: File > Scripts > Image Processor

 

[Alvin.C]

Hello,

I use FastStone Image Viewer. It's a free, powerful and fast image browser, converter and editor. You can batch convert and edit photos (with options such as resizing, cropping, color adjustment etc.).

 

[Dumpy]

its not exactly what your looking for. but why not zip them and send them?

 

[heartbeat]

You can use the software winzar, it isn't free. But it is great I use it. If I have more ideas I will let you know.