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rubyaim -> Compress / Resize photos in bulk (9/8/2005 23:51:07)

I frequently have to put photos downloaded from a digital camera onto our web. Used to drive me crazy until I started using Microsoft Office Picture Manager (Office 2003) to do a bulk compress.

Assuming all the images are in one folder, the following works very well for quick image optimisation for web viewing.

  • Open the folder containing the images
  • Right Click on an image, click on 'Open With', select 'Microsoft Office Picture Manager'
  • In Picture Manage, select 'Thumbnail View'
  • Use Ctrl+A on the keyboard, or in the top toolbar go to >Edit >Select All
  • Click on Edit Pictures
  • In the edit task pane, select 'Compress Pictures'
  • In the compress task pane, select 'Web pages'
  • Click on OK

This compresses every image selected for web viewing. When you leave Picture Manager you will be prompted to save the images. Generally a 3mb image reduces to around 85 kb and is resized to 448 x 336 pixels.

It does not suit everything, but is good getting WIP images etc up in a hurry [:)]

Note: If the images need to be available in the original size for printing etc, copy them into a new folder for the web and compress the copies.

Tutorial on Picture Manager

Attached is a screenshot of the steps (sorry, poor quality screenshot).

Sally

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Josie -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (9/21/2005 13:18:09)

Thanks for the Tip! :oD



keira19 -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (9/22/2005 0:03:56)

You can do a similar thing in Adobe Photoshop if you have it:

I often use Adobe Photoshop to set up an 'action' (in this case I make the action so that it exports the file as a web ready file - you can choose the file size/type etc..)

If you don't know much about actions, all you do is create a new one (in the actions palette), hit the play button and it records every keystroke and mouseclick you make, sort of like a 'macro', and then when you're done, hit stop and you can run the same 'action' on any file you want with the same results.

- and then just run it on a folder simply by going to File/Automate/Batch/
- select the action you created form the drop down list, and then select the folder you want to run the action on. and whalla!

when you specify your action, you tell the action where to save the new files, but there are also options to add text to the file name or change it in the "batch" options popup...



ContentSeed -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (9/22/2005 8:32:21)

For what it's worth:
I've used "SmartSaver" by www.ulead.com for years.
the batch function is the best i've used on any product.
it routinely puts out smaller file size photos with less "artifacts" than anything else out there.
Besides doing that, it's got nice scripting capabilities, and some very interesting stuff like letting you compress different areas of a picture and not others.

I believe there's a free trial download on the site.

HTH



d a v e -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (9/22/2005 9:38:48)

can you choose more than one area for a different compression level?



ContentSeed -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (9/22/2005 10:03:16)

I believe so. I only used it a couple of times to compress the subject of a photo less than the surrounding elements.

HTH



DrNicket -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (11/22/2005 20:28:40)

I'm using FrontPage 2002.

I already have all my images coded into the HTML. They are custom sized in HTML only (served images still too big).

My question is this: Is there a way to have the served images to be resized to those specified in the HTML code?

For some reason I thought my resizing in FP was going to save copies of the images in the sizes I specified, not simply copy over from insert location.


Be Well,

drnicket



ContentSeed -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (11/22/2005 20:48:11)

When you bring up the frontpage picture toolbar there's a little icon for "resample" and that will create a truly re-sized and compressed version of your image. watch out though because it doesn't save it as a copy but will overwrite the original.



DrNicket -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (11/26/2005 5:11:04)

Thanks, that's the thing I thought would happen automagically, oh well. I'll try that. (I assume I'll have to do it one at a time)

One more question: Which originals? The ones already saved and referenced in the FP web folder (the one I'm editing) on my hard drive or the location I grabbed them from via insert or drag drop?



jaybee -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (11/26/2005 7:17:51)

The ones in the FP web folder.

I always have three folders for images, one for originals kept outside the FP web, one for originals inside the FP web and one for thumbs also inside the FP web.

It's amazingly easy when zapping around in design view to overwrite your original original and if you don't have a hard copy to rescan then you're screwed.

Rather than use FP why don't you download a thumbnailer that way you're sure of good compression and you can save your thumbs separately.

I particularly like this one

Got to try Chris's recommendation above too.



DrNicket -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (11/26/2005 16:37:53)

Thanks Jaybee.

However I don't want to use a generic thumbnailer that I have to go through the whole sizing process again. I'd rather manually follow the resample method so that they stay the size I set for them.

I 'always' (usually) do the same with my images.

Be Well,

DrNicket



Andy314 -> RE: Compress / Resize photos in bulk (12/10/2005 2:04:01)

I use IrFanView myself. It has a really nice batch compression feature and it's free. [:D]



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