• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Batch image resizer tool - want to beta test?

M

MDesigner

Platinum Member
I've written a simple app in C# (.NET 2.0).. it's intended for developers who work on e-commerce sites, where basically the client gives you a large image of a product, and you need to quickly produce different sizes of that image for the web site (thumbnail, full size, zoom, etc). But really, this tool could be used for anyone who wants to batch resize images (except it makes images into a perfect square by padding the edges, as this is ideal for commerce sites).

I wrote it for myself, because I'm not too hot at the Photoshop macros, and couldn't figure out how to do automatic padding (in other words, if the original image is 1077x800, I want the resized image to be a perfect square since it looks better on e-commerce stores). So Photoshop would have to automatically size to 1077x1077 and fill the new empty space with whatever color I choose.

So I wrote my own application to do this. I'd like to pass it out to a handful of people who would have a use for this kind of thing, so I can get it tested and not only work out bugs, but also come up with improvements. It should run fine on both WinXP and Win2K.

If you'd like to beta test, please send me a PM. Thanks!
 
(My program is free too, by the way.)

Irfan can do batch convert/resize, but you can't specify multiple dimensions per image, and specify your own filename suffixes.

Basically what my program does is this: you have a directory full of images, prod001.jpg, prod002.jpg, prod003.jpg, etc. These could be any dimensions at all... 100x3000, 1205x600, whatever. My app will batch process these and output the following (just an example):

prod001_thumb.jpg (100x100)
prod001_fullsize.jpg (400x400)
prod002_thumb.jpg (100x100)
...etc.

And you can specify any file suffix (_thumb, -small, -t, whatever), any dimensions (though it must be a perfect square). Padding is added to the image to make it square, and you can choose the color used for the padding.

It also supports one-shot drag/drop, so you can drag an image or two onto a drop target and it will process them immediately, for quick jobs.
 
Just downloaded and tried it out really quickly, seems like a good tools for web folks


Only drawback I found is file type limitations, looks like it just .jpg for now?

Simple and clean, I like it. Only thing better (I like things this way) is just as a standalone .exe file, no installers needed. SOmething you can quickly throw on a thumbdrive and carry with you.
 
Well, the prob is, the installer needs to check if the user has .NET Framework 2.0 installed. I could make it standalone, but it would be up to the user to know if they have .NET Framework. Try taking just the .exe by itself and see if it runs without anything else. I haven't tried it.

As far as file types.. it will read in jpg, tif, gif, and bmp (off the top of my head), and save only as jpg currently. I chose jpg mostly because for web stores like this when you have product photos, you want to use jpg format. The rule of thumb is, jpg for photos, gif for simple low-color graphics.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top