Resizing and/or watermarking software

[hoffmanvision]

My workflow is slowly getting better- but I'm really hung up when I need to

resize photos for the web. In photoshop I see the ability to batch resize but

only by width or height. This leaves me with good results but only for either

landscape or portrait, not both. Does anyone know of a good tool for batch

resizing and or watermarking that is cheap or free? What are you pros using?

 

Thanks,

Sean Hoffman

[david.seaton]

Hi Sean. Congrats on expanding your workflow, your portfolio on PN is very nice, it looks like you are doing better than "slowly getting better"!. <br><br>

 

I use Faststone photoresizer, it is freeware and has a really nice feature in that it can resize the "long" side of a image, so it works on both portrait and landscape modes. Its a very easy program to use.

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<a href="http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm">faststone</a>

[leicaglow]

A cheap alternative for both batch resizing and conversion is Vortex Tidal Wave. It's only about $20. I don't know where to buy it, but a search on the web will tell you.

 

Check out Digimarc for watermarking.

[chr15w]

Try www.irfanview.com its free

[jim mucklin]

Sean, You can create an action in ps. Go to action pallete>create new action(name it)

Image size> set h&w or set by pixel size/set resolution.

File save as> rename and save to whatever file you want/ close without saving changes/ stop action.

Or file>automate> fit image.

Watermarking, you can check out Russell Brown's ps tips or make your own layer or create your own custom brush or action, feel free to contact me off site and I'll type them out and send them to you. Which version of ps are you using?