Need suggestions for thumbnail and photo resizing freeware

Factual Questions
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Can anyone recommend some freeware that can 1) take a group of photos and generate thumbnails and 2) take a group of photo and resize them all simutaneously?

Better yet, does anyone know of any programs for making online photo albums?

Thanks!!

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Picasa will do the first two, and do them pretty well. You can resize photos and export them all in one size, and it has a pretty useful set of basic photo touchup tools as well.

I have Coppermine gallery installed as part of my web hosting service, but I haven’t really used it too much, so I will let other people weigh in with their opinions.

Anu

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Thanks Dervorin! I though Picasa might do that. I will check it out. Any other suggestions are still welcomed!!

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Microsoft PowerToys has an image resizer and you can rotate them with the Previewer there’s also a slideshow generator, but I haven’t used it. I found a neat free html photo gallery creator, Here’s a sample. The link at the bottom of the page should take you to where you can get it.
all of the above assumes you are using some flavor of windows XP

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I had Picasa on a PC for a while and didn’t care for it. Might just be me. :wink:

I do like and use IRFANVIEW which is a free download from here: http://www.irfanview.com/

It does batch resize and rename tasks. The batch process has many options including changes to contrast, sharpness etc.

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I’m with GaryM… Irfanview is great.

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I’ll also recommend Picasa. I think it absolutely kicks ass and would actually pay money for it.

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ImageMagick provides a command-line interface to a huge variety of image manipulations. Resizing a batch of images is one of the more trivial things you can use it for. For an example, a few months ago I used it in a script that generated images for a slide show by taking each image, rendering text based on the filename (with the help of Gozer), attaching the resulting text centered onto the bottom of the image, resizing the image to a fixed dimension, and putting the result in a separate folder with a single format and a consistent naming scheme. It ran for a couple of minutes and I had a slide show of several hundred images. And even that, I suspect, is a trivial job compared with what ImageMagick can be and is used for.