Batch resizing

[aam1234]

I'm sure most of you guys have sites on the web where you upload your photos. I'm also sure you don't resize & edit each photo individually. So how do you go about preparing your pictures to be uploaded.

Any hints.

[Max@Home]

Hi aam1234,

I use BreezeBrowser Pro (www.breezebrowser.com) Proofing Tool to batch-prepare 'developed' RAW's (PhaseOneCaptureOne) for the web: resize, sharpen, add border, name picture(serie) and add © sign

...then I zip them and upload the series to my PBase account



...€0.02 more...

Kindest regards!

Max@Home

[aam1234]

That's way cooler than I thought!

Thanks for the tip Max.

[dougjgreen]

Originally Posted by aam1234

I'm sure most of you guys have sites on the web where you upload your photos. I'm also sure you don't resize & edit each photo individually. So how do you go about preparing your pictures to be uploaded.

Any hints.

Actually, I do. I wouldn't dream of uploading a photo that I hadn't post-processed. As for web-resizing, what I do is do a fairly heavily compressed JPEG, which tends to have a file size of around 300-500 K Bytes, and then basically downsize each JPEG by halving the dimensions in Photoshop, which basically cuts the resolution (and file size) down by a factor of 4, typically ending up with a file size of between 75 and 125 KB. The actual web-resizing for sites that need it only takes a minute or so for each image.

[aam1234]

Thanks d.Green,

125-150K is that max I would go for too.

[Kadman]

I do this with Canon DPP. It came with the camera and does an excellent job of batch resizing, changing dpi, and even converting from raw to jpg all at the same time.

[Mr. Pickles]

I agree on the DPP deal, or I use Irfanview, which has been in my "toolbox" for years.

[RobAmy]

Another vote for the canon DPP

[Rense]

I use IDIMAGER to add captions and frames.

Then I use starexplorer to send them to my smugmug account.

If you want simple size/captioning/framing (also in batch) use bdsizer

[setiprime]

Well there is the old tried and true ACDSee (ver 7.0)

If you are going to stay in Photography - it is well worth the money. Also AISWatermark, you can batch/resize and watermark in a blink.

I do about 400 shots per horse show and it is a real fine program.

[aam1234]

I have ACDSee 7, didn't know it can do batches. Have to check this out. Thanks for the tip.

[Jim Sykes]

I just use batch commands in Photoshop to do it all.

[Athena]

I also do it in PS.

[Jon]

Photoshop's Web Photo Gallery batch function does a great job of sizing and optimizing images for the web once they've been processed.

[aam1234]

Batch resize is under control now, thanks to you guys. But what about batch sharpen. Does such a thing exist.

[Max@Home]

Originally Posted by aam1234

Batch resize is under control now, thanks to you guys. But what about batch sharpen. Does such a thing exist.

Yes: http://www.photocamel.com/index.php/...html#msg121115

edited: added:

quote:

Proofs - powerful batch processing of images

* Use “HQ mode” sharpening to give the same results as BreezeBrowser Pro’s HQ display mode.
* Flexible watermarking to caption your images
* Add borders, picture frames and captions
* Auto level, resize, sharpen, convert between color spaces, adjust the saturation and gamma of images ready for printing
* Lens distortion correction - reads the lens information from the image shooting data and automatically corrects for lens distortion

unquote:

from: http://www.breezebrowser.com/BreezeBrowser/features.htm

regards,

Max@Home

[cyclohexane]

Yes; you can record almost anything as an action in Photoshop (though batching a copyright seems to escape me despite numerous approaches). I have an action that converts the 16-bit TIFF I'm editing to LAB color mode (if not already in LAB), applies a light unsharp mask, reconverts to RGB, converts to 8-bit mode, and then resizes the image for web use. Eventually, I'll have some variations with different amounts of USM.

[dc2]

Originally Posted by aam1234

Batch resize is under control now, thanks to you guys. But what about batch sharpen. Does such a thing exist.

I think it exists in elements but its easy to make an action in ps then use the image processor in bridge to apply it . Of course this is only useful if you have a batch of pics that require the same amount of sharpening to be applied to each pic . I have used it on batchs of uncropped images .

[aam1234]

Max. Easy on me my friend, all this is new to me. I'm learning from you guys a lot (raising my virtual hat to you Sirs/Madams).

Micheal, Thanks. I don't have PS (full version), just PSE 4.0. Your help is well appreciated though.

[cyclohexane]

I think PSE 4.0 can record actions just like PS, but I've never tried it. There should be a "record" button you can mess with it; looks like a tape recorder interface.