Is there a program out there that will shrink image file's size...

[gregor7777]

that has some kind of batch run type feature?

Essiantially we have many, many images that are sent out on almost a daily basis from our digital cameras, but they are big, like 700k each.

These are being emailed so needless to say they can fill a inbox up pretty qick.

Is there a program where I can run like 20 or more at a time through it and it automatically reduces the file size like photoshop can, with anywhere near photoshop quality?

Thanks,

greg

 

[MrChad]

Irfanview

 

[igowerf]

Irfanview is good, but I've been using a program called ImageMagick. It's a command line image manipulation program.

I wrote a DOS batch script that makes thumbnails for any image that doesn't already have a thumbnail. We plan to run it on a server with 40,000 images that have no thumbnails. From my testing, ImageMagick is faster than PS or Irfanview.

 

[mrbass]

so is irfanview command line

now if you wish to resize images in linux this script works great. Used it many times.

#!/bin/bash

# Copyright (C) 1999 Maxim Heijndijk

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# Email: cchq@wanadoo.nl"

# Uncomment the next line for debugging.
# set -x

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo -e "Usage: $0 <input-directory> <output-directory>
<image-resolution>"
sleep 2
exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
echo -e "Input directory \"$1\" does not exist, exiting...."
sleep 2
exit 1
fi

[ -d "$2" ] || mkdir -p "$2"


# If you want suffix renaming, uncomment the following lines.
#SUFFIXES=(jpeg JPEG JPG)

#for SFX in ${SUFFIXES[@]} ; do
# for FILE in $1/*.${SFX} ; do
# BASENAME=`basename ${FILE} ${SFX}`
# if [ "${BASENAME}" != "*." ]; then
# mv -f $1/${BASENAME}${SFX} $2/${BASENAME}jpg
# fi
# done
#done

for FILE in $1/*.jpg ; do
BASENAME=`basename ${FILE}`
convert -geometry "$3" \
-comment "%w%h" \
-normalize \
-quality 100 \
-verbose \
${FILE} $2/${BASENAME}
done

exit 0

 

[Don08721]

If you use XP, Microsoft has a great, simple tool. I use it all the time and it works great. Just need to right-click on 1 or more pics from Explorer and select "resize"...

Microsoft Image Resizer