Program to resize JPG's.

[CuriousMike]

I'm looking for a free program to resize a load of JPG's.

Googling this returns hundreds of options, of which I've tried a few.

But none has done what I want -

I have a folder, and it's laid out as this:
d:/photos\2001\01-01-01\*.jpg
d:/photos\2002\01-01-02\*.jpg
..
..
d:/photos\2011\01-01-11\*.jpg

i.e., I have > 10 years worth of photos, all sorted into photos\year\month_day.

I want to be able to tell this program, "Take d:/photos\*.*, and spit out resized images into a new folder, preserving the path structure."

i.e.,

resize photos d:/photos\*.* e:/photos\*.* -s:1024

Has anyone used a free program that does this?

 

[postmark]

Not at a pc today to double check but I'm 99% sure that irfanview can do this.
http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[CuriousMike]

I just downloaded an tried irfanview;
It correctly takes all files in a sub-folder, but it puts all the resultant files in a single folder.

so,
c:/photos\2001\*.*
and
c:/photos\2002\*.*

all end up in a single folder,
c:/output

What I want is
c:/output/2001/resized
c:/output/2002/resized

 

[M0RPH]

VSO Image Resizer is one of the best. Not sure if it will do what you're asking but it's pretty full-featured.

 

[corkyg]

What I want is
c:/output/2001/resized
c:/output/2002/resized

Just do them in separate batches by folder.

 

[CuriousMike]

VSO did it - it was unclear that it was free, but it is.

The key:

 

[CuriousMike]

Just do them in separate batches by folder.

I have 1999->2011, with about an average of 24 folders in each year.
I'm too lazy to manually do that.

The VSO solution is perfect.

 

[Maverick6969]

I have 1999->2011, with about an average of 24 folders in each year.
I'm too lazy to manually do that.

The VSO solution is perfect.

You can easily create a batch file using robocopy to exclude files based on a certain date.

For example:
CD\
@echo
C:
md c:\resized\2000
md c:\resized\2001
md c:\resized\2002
robocopy C:\output c:\resized\2000 /mov /minage:01012001
robocopy C:\output c:\resized\2001 /mov /minage:01012002
robocopy C:\output c:\resized\2002 /mov /minage:01012003

 

[robphelan]

Fastone Image is a great free utility. I use it to batch convert/rename/resize my images.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I use ImageMagick via Cygwin.

 

[postmark]

I just downloaded an tried irfanview;
It correctly takes all files in a sub-folder, but it puts all the resultant files in a single folder.

so,
c:/photos\2001\*.*
and
c:/photos\2002\*.*

all end up in a single folder,
c:/output

What I want is
c:/output/2001/resized
c:/output/2002/resized

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, this is doable in irfanview. When you enter the batch mode window, you need to click on Advanced. On that window you check the "Create subfolders in destination folder" option, and then also make sure you have "Include subdirectories (for 'Addall'; not saved on exit)" option checked on the batch window. Then open your directory on the right, say C:\photos and click add all. Then in the output put your folder like E:\photos, and click start batch. This will create a mirror directory.