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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / General Topics / March 2007Question
Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s of pics, but allow me to do it without processing one folder at a time? i.e. I need it to select all photos, but the way the are numbered means each folder contains the same 'filenames' (sort of), but the photos are different and because I have so many photos, it would take an age to renumber them all. Joe. (By 'processing', I mean 'resizing'). > Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s of > pics, but allow me to do it without processing one folder at a time? i.e. I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > (By 'processing', I mean 'resizing'). Sure - find and convert will do that. >> Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s of >> pics, but allow me to do it without processing one folder at a time? i.e. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Sure - find and convert will do that. Is that a program? Do you have a link? Joe. >>> Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s of >>> pics, but allow me to do it without processing one folder at a time? i.e. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Joe. 'find' is part of virtually every Unix/Linux distribution. Convert is part of the Imagemagik program suite - simple web search should get you there. Il 26/03/2007 23:22, ray dixit: > 'find' is part of virtually every Unix/Linux distribution. Convert is part > of the Imagemagik program suite - simple web search should get you there. LOL! I guess Joe will be scared, seeing more than 56,000,000 of results for the "simple" search of /find/ and /convert/. Imagemagick is here: http://www.imagemagick.com/ (and there is a Windows version, too). A lot of examples are here: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ To create thumbnails for a whole directory the basic command (on a Linux machine) is: for i in *.jpg ; do convert -size 100x100 $i -quality 40 -resize \ 100x100 tn_$i ; done Since I want "fancy" effects (fading border) around the thumbnails, I use this one: for i in *.jpg ; do convert -size 100x100 $i -quality 40 -vignette \ 0x20+6+6 -resize 100x100 tn_$i ; done Cyrus (the /magick/ virus)  SignatureI love to be mailed just by smart people: perl -we 'print "\12\142\145\162\156\141\155\141\100\146". \165\156\141\144\151\165\155\56\143\157\155\12\12";' Spammers scratch here with a diamond to find my address: > Il 26/03/2007 23:22, ray dixit: > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Cyrus (the /magick/ virus) Thanks for the followup. I've not really used it for anything like that, though I am familiar with the capabilities. > Il 26/03/2007 23:22, ray dixit: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Cyrus (the /magick/ virus) Phew! Do you guys really use this stuff? ;-) I didn't intend to embark on a course in Visual Basic, but this looks like some kind of code to be used with your "favourite compiler" to me. I prefer something a bit more like "click the OK button and you're done" sort of thing. Needless to say, I'm still looking for a program to allow me to resize images in multiple folders and sub-folders, without having to rename them. BTW, you'd think this sort of feature/function would be implemented in Photoshop and the likes. (Is it?!). Joe. Il 29/03/2007 01:02, Joe dixit: > "cyrusthevirus" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message >> Imagemagick is here: http://www.imagemagick.com/ (and there is a Windows [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> for i in *.jpg ; do convert -size 100x100 $i -quality 40 -resize \ >> 100x100 tn_$i ; done > Phew! Do you guys really use this stuff? ;-) Yep! A couple of years ago I was in California. Via Internet I uploaded my photos directly into my home computer in Italy and I made thumbnails and other elaborations on the fly with this sort of commands, without to fill my US friends' hard-disk with useless crap. > I didn't intend to embark on a > course in Visual Basic, but this looks like some kind of code to be used > with your "favourite compiler" to me. Hehehe! And this isn't "code" requiring a compiler: it's just a little shell command, almost easy. > I prefer something a bit more like > "click the OK button and you're done" sort of thing. Well, you can write a "batch" program, in the old DOS way (pre-Windows), and assign an icon to it. It is just a single line, after all... I've dozens of these small scripts. > Needless to say, I'm > still looking for a program to allow me to resize images in multiple folders > and sub-folders, without having to rename them. BTW, you'd think this sort > of feature/function would be implemented in Photoshop and the likes. (Is > it?!). Usually open-source programmers are very sensitive to users suggestions, while commercial programs must deal with the marketing dept. before any other. Perhaps you can try to propose this to Adobe, or to IrfanView guys: it seems an interesting and useful improvement. Cyrus SignatureWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein, /Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus/ >> Il 26/03/2007 23:22, ray dixit: >> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Joe. Depends a little on whether you want to get the job done or spend days looking for the right gui based software package. > Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s of > pics, but allow me to do it without processing one folder at a time? i.e. I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > (By 'processing', I mean 'resizing'). IrfanView will do what you want, and it is free Scott >> Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s of >> pics, but allow me to do it without processing one folder at a time? i.e. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Scott Irfan View is a neat lil program, but I couldn't get it to create sub-folders, only the 'root' folder of each. Cheers. Joe. > >> Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s of > >> pics, but allow me to do it without processing one folder at a time? i.e. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Cheers. > Joe Yes it can, it is in the advance options dialog, check "Create subdirectories in destination folder". Scott >> >> Is there a program out there which will let me batch process my 1000s >> >> of [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Scott You're right, I just did it. Thanks for a great lil program! Joe. |
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