Photo CD software ?

I have a somewhat difficult question to phrase. I take all my

digital photos at the highest possible resolution in case I wish to

print them. However, many of these I email and publish on the web.

To do this I open them in Photoshop and have to manually reduce the

size of each photo which is time consuming. Is there a software I

can buy that once I download my images to the hard drive I can

automatically make several copies of the same image in different

sizes (one for printing and one for internet use)? Kind of like

creating a Kodak photoCD. Thank you, Michael

In Photoshop� you can create an action that will do this to an entire folder of

images. once you have created the action to size an image to a specific size

you can than apply this action to an entire group or folder of images. I am not

of a Photoshop whiz to know how to create a single action that will resize a

single image to several different sizes so I think you should should create

several actions to resize the original images(s) to the different sizes you

want.<P>You create an action (in Photoshop� 6 & 7) by opening an image,

opening the Window menu, opening Actions, and then clicking on the icon

just to the left of the trash can. give your action a name that describes what it

does. When you are finished creating the action click on the square block

icon on the left side of the icon

The action should look like:<P>

Image > Image Size (<I>in this window specify the size and resolution you

want to reduce the image to</I>) > Save As (not Save. If you choose save you

will replace the origianl image)> When you are finished creating the action

click on the square block icon on the left side of the icon.</P>

Now test the action on a second image.

If it works the way you want to, go to File > Automate > Batch , choose the

action set where you filed your action, and choose the action you want to

apply to the folder or set of images and close the action.<P> Choose the

source of the images you want to apply the action to (I usually check the

suppress colorspace warning).<P> In Destination I choose folder, & then

select "fnew folder " and create and name a new folder and then apply the

action to the batch.<P><B><U>HEY!<P><U>

DO NOT ASSUME THIS IS THE PLAN TO FOLLOW. TEST IT FIRST!!</B></U>

</U>

If you have already rotated vertical images to their upright posiition set them

up in a seperate folder before you apply a resizing action.

<p>Michael,</p>

<p>

A possible alternative to Photoshop for this kind of task is <a

href="http://www.imagemagick.org/">ImageMagick</a>, which is free of

charge. For instance, assume you want to resize all your images by

50%. First create a new directory and copy your images there. In

Windows, you then open a DOS window, change into the newly created

directory, and issue the command:</p>

<p>mogrify -geometry 50% *</p>

<p>Done! Now assume your original files are TIFF files and you want

the smaller ones to be JPEG:</p>

<p>mogrify -geometry 50% -format jpg *.tif</p>

<p>There's a whole lot more you can do with ImageMagick, take a look

at their website.</p>

<p>Tom</p>

Example of how to create 2 images (1024x768) and (640x480) jpgs from a 6000x4000 tiff file.

Create a folder named "C:Resize\1024x768"

Create a folder named "C:Resize\640x480"

From the Photoshop main menu....

Windows->Show Actions

Create a new action named "6k to 1024x768, jpg9"

File->Automate->Fit 4800 pixels width, 3200 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 3840 pixels width, 2560 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 3072 pixels width, 2048 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 2458 pixels width, 1638 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1966 pixels width, 1311 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1573 pixels width, 1049 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1258 pixels width, 839 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1024 pixels width, 768 pixels height

File->SaveAs->jpg 9 in the folder C:Resize\1024x768

stop creating action.

File->Automate->Fit 4800 pixels width, 3200 pixels height

Create a new action named "6k to 640x480, jpg9"

File->Automate->Fit 4800 pixels width, 3200 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 3840 pixels width, 2560 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 3072 pixels width, 2048 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 2458 pixels width, 1638 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1966 pixels width, 1311 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1573 pixels width, 1049 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1258 pixels width, 839 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 1024 pixels width, 768 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 800 pixels width, 600 pixels height

File->Automate->Fit 640 pixels width, 480 pixels height

File->SaveAs->jpg 9 in the folder C:Resize\640x480

stop creating action.

Create a new action named "6k to 1024x768 and 640x480 jpgs."

Click on the action named "6k to 1024x768, jpg9" and then click on the play button at the bottom of the actions screen.

After the action has finished running click on the action named "6k to 640x480, jpg9" and then click on the play button at the bottom of the actions screen.

Hit the stop recording button.

To create the smaller jpgs....

File->Automate->Batch "6k to 1024x768 and 640x480 jpgs" Click on the folder you want transformed to the smaller jpgs, click OK and get a cup of coffee.

The "File->Automate->Fit 4800 pixels width, 3200 pixels height"

should not be present after the "stop creating action" in the "6k to 1024x768, jpg9" part of the response above.

You could also use Irfanview which I think is available as freeware.

It is very simple to use but has a number of uses.

I am no expert at all but ImageMagick is free, and seems very powerful for batch actions. There are many things you can do with it, including batch USM. The only drawback is that you have to work in DOS, which can be limiting for batch work, as you have to 1) choose your images, and 2) then segregate them by moving them to a directory. which you will have to do in Windows first.

Photoshop of course, can automate batch processes. The inexpensive Photoshop Elements can resize and rename in batch mode. Version 1.0 is often available as a freebie with scanners and the like.

I've tried IrfanView and hate the viewer, which is of poor quality.

You can download a copy of BatchIt as shareware for 21 days, and it will do many batch actions, including resizing.

In the Leica forum, I've posted a link to a freeware batch rotation program that is very well designed.

Have you tried the Photoshop Web Photo Gallery automated action? It is menu driven, doesn't require you to set up any actions, and you can customize the templates in the Photoshop 7 presets/WebContactSheet folder with a plain text editor. I am finding it quite useful to generate boilerplate from photos and/or scans, then customize the html with BBEdit. You can always discard the html and just use the images or thumbnails.

<p>

If you use Macintosh OS X, the Image Capture utility that comes bundled with the system software has the ability to apply an automatic task after download. This includes formatting in four popular sizes, creating a slide show, or a web page. In addition, iPhoto, also free, has a bunch of automated stuff.