Resizing Photos.

[tkcomer]

Hey all. I have PhotoShop 4, which doesn’t do very well in XP. But one thing I like about it is that it will resize photos in pixels. Nice when you’re on a BBS board that has a maximum pixel size. Most freebies that I found are in inches, so you have to guess if the pixel size is right. PhotoShop is also great to resize pics to send via E-mail, but you have to do each one individually. I was wondering if there was a program that would do all the photos in a file. It would be much easier than resizing pics one at a time and renaming them. I’m not sure if anything is out there that I want. PhotoShop will do everything I ask, it’s just time consuming. If you know of anything, let me know. Thanks.

[Foxy]

I do not know much about pictures, but i took a roll of film to Wal-Mart and had them put them on CD, when I got them back the disk had the downlaod option for Picture It! and it resizes in pixels. It has most of the features that PhotoShop has on it, and it was free with the development of my roll of film.
Just an idea.

[Jeremy]

I believe PhotoShop 4 has the "batch" process that allows you to create an action and run it on an entire folder of images. You simply record your resizing steps as an action and then look for batch under File or File > Automate and it will ask you what action you want to run and what folder you want to run it on.

[tkcomer]

Hmm. I’ve been looking through PhotoShop 4 and can’t find that action your speaking of. I can only get it to open one pic at a time. Most of the options are not highlighted until you select a single pic. I have PhotoShop 4 For Dummies and haven’t seen that option in there. I’ll admit, PhotoShop is a big program and I might not be able to find it.

[Jeremy]

The ability is there in Photoshop 4, but it's been awhile so I'm not exactly sure where. Basically the way it works is that there is an "Action" panel with icons at the bottom. One of those icons is a circular "Record" button. You open a single image, press record, give the action a name, resize the image, and click stop recording (a square icon). Then you have the resize action recorded. Then you click "File > Automate > Batch". A window pops up where you can choose the action you want to run (the one you created), an input folder, and an output folder. Then you just run the batch process and voila! It opens each image in that folder, resizes it per your action, and saves it in the output folder. Like I said, it's been awhile so things might be a bit different in Photoshop 4, but I know the capability is in there. The exact steps above I remember using in Photoshop 5.5 back in 2000. You might be looking for an action that resizes photos and not finding one. You'll probably have to create the action using similar steps to what I said above. If you don't see an "Actions" panel, it is probably in the toolbar up top under "Window > Actions".

[kdown]

I posted this once before. It works like a charm

http://www.resize2mail.com/

[Chuck]

I posted this once before. It works like a charm
http://www.resize2mail.com/


Thanks Ken, Nice script. Here is a free program you can download on your computer to resize photos:

http://www.freeimagebrowser.com/article2608.html

[tkcomer]

Wow, that program works great. Thanks Chuck. I’ll keep PhotoShop for other projects but I’ve wanted a batch resizing program for years. Downsizing my camera pics one at a time so I could E-mail them was just a time consuming hassle. Thanks again! I’ll have to spread the word on this one.

[RHP Studios]

Hey all. I have PhotoShop 4, which doesn’t do very well in XP. But one thing I like about it is that it will resize photos in pixels. Nice when you’re on a BBS board that has a maximum pixel size. Most freebies that I found are in inches, so you have to guess if the pixel size is right. PhotoShop is also great to resize pics to send via E-mail, but you have to do each one individually. I was wondering if there was a program that would do all the photos in a file. It would be much easier than resizing pics one at a time and renaming them. I’m not sure if anything is out there that I want. PhotoShop will do everything I ask, it’s just time consuming. If you know of anything, let me know. Thanks.

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edited price, cause I was thinking of an adobe bundle......

[GirlColumbo]

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[kdown]

Do a google image search. Use words like "animation";
"graphic", etc

[tiger_n2_dragon]

where ya'lll gettin them cool avatars or gifs

Try out art.com, thousands of pics to choose from:)