Software to re-sample/ resize several digital photos at once??

[Mepoor]

Update: I found this other thread (http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288488&highlight=resize+digital+photos) that offers a XP Powertoys Image Resizer (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) app. BUT when I downloaded it I could not find where the App was placed - no Desktop icon, no "Programs" listing in the Menu - nothing?!? Just a Read ME file was added to the PowerToys Program Menu ... any ideas??

Thanks.

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Is there a way or a software that will re-sample/ resize several digital photos at once to a smaller file size (for emailing)?? I like taking the original photo is high resolution but then they are often too big for emailing. And I hate having to resample one picture at a time.

Any suggestions??
Thanks in advance.

[Calmuser]

I highly recommend ACDSee the classic version the others are bloated,

its not free, but worth every penny.

http://www.acdsee.com

[Mepoor]

It appears that none of the subfolders actually get downloaded from the Microsoft XP Powertoys website?!?...

[ShadowVlican]

the power toys image resizer works with explorer

right click the picture u want to resize and it should have some options there

[mp328]

www.irfanview.com completely free and lets u resize 1xxxxxxxx of files at the same time using the batch command

[Aske001]

Another vote for Irfanview. Should be in everyone's image toolkit. Very quick at batch-resizing photos.

ACDSee is good for many things too, but Irfanview is free.

[Silver Bullet]

You can do it in Photoshop also ... with macros and batch processing .. works very well.

[Mepoor]

the power toys image resizer works with explorer

right click the picture u want to resize and it should have some options there
yes - it worked like you said - thanks

[2000fordfocus]

Photoshop can do batch resize too, but that might be one of the most expensive option you can go with~

[supernerd]

I use ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) tools (no, thats not a typo) -- especially "convert". Its available on windows and *nix (ie linux,bsd,OSX). Combined with shell scripting, it has made my life much easier. i.e. scale all JPEG's to 800 by 600, and save as a bitmap in the "resized" directory:

for i in `ls *.jpg`; do convert -scale 800x600! $i resized/$i.bmp; done

it also lets you easily convert between image types as well. i.e. replace the "bmp" with some extension like "jpg, eps, ppm, png, gif" to generate the specified file type.

[Jim123]

Photoshop can do batch resize too, but that might be one of the most expensive option you can go with~Also available in Photoshop Elements for a slightly cheaper option.

I use it all the time to resize 5 megapixel images down to 640X480.

[Evil Techie]

in photoshop, u can also go to file -> automate -> web photo gallery

it will resize pictures twice to main res and thumbnail res and make appropriate htmls and properly link all the pics for a pretty easy to manage web photo gallery

just upload the folders respectively onto webserver and voila

this for example
http://www.sfu.ca/~tdh/Aug18_upload/

[jerryhung]

PhotoCap
http://home.so-net.net.tw/juinn99/

It has English version, but it's mostly for Chinese users
Version 2 was designed solely for batch process
Version 3 is more like mini-PhotoShop now

Eng version
http://163.20.56.1/~photocap25/PhotoCap30_EN.zip

[jory29]

Picasa, free from Google... extremely user friendly, but a joy to use. I have gone back to that one after working with over 8 different programs, etc. I love irfanview as a photo viewer, but Picasa is good for all sorts of editing/resizing/making collages. You must check this one out! Just google
Picasa to find the link to d/l it. :)