Good quality batch resize program?

kona786 · 8 Aug 2013 at 21:49

I have a lot of pics I have taken with the SLR that I want on my phone, however I don't need the full size pics.

Is there a good quality batch resize program that will reduce the pics size but not (relatively) suck the dynamic range out of the pics?

Photoshop is great, but cba doing them one by one.

NeoVo · 8 Aug 2013 at 21:53

You can configure photoshop to run a batch script that re-sizes images

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kona786 · 8 Aug 2013 at 22:05

thanks mate - you made me very happy.

followed this guide http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-batch-resize-in-photoshop

kona786 · 8 Aug 2013 at 22:47

900MB down to 60MB - Great!

RussD · 8 Aug 2013 at 23:55

You could also use FastStone Photo Resizer..Works well and is FREE.

D.P. · 9 Aug 2013 at 00:27

image magik works well

glosrfc · 9 Aug 2013 at 02:15

If you can find it, NetGraphics Optimizer is superb. I bought a copy around 20 years ago and it's ridiculously easy to use with either a single image, or an entire batch of them. It's even operated flawlessly on every version of Windows and the compression can't be beaten.

For example, here's an image that was 2.68 Mb originally. Photoshop's Save For Web option (with a compression setting of 80%) reduced that down to...1.28 Mb, or just over 50% file saving. Wow!

However, the image you see below was compressed with NetGraphics (again with a compression setting of 80%) and is now just 51.2 Kb. That's only 1.74% of the original size.

With NetGraphics, you should be able to get your 900 Mb originals down to around 15Mb.

kona786 · 9 Aug 2013 at 08:51

Cheers guys, I'm happy enough with Photoshop.

Used quality setting 8 and max size of 1920 (horizontal + vertical). I could have got them down to 15MB but I have plenty of space to accommodate 60MB.