What software can I use to quickly resize a few hundred photos?

Factual Questions
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Modern digital cameras create ridiculously huge photos. The most common resolutionthese days is 1366×768.

Its cumbersome to make my slideshow program resize 4912x7360 images to fit on a 1366×768 monitor. Theres about a 8 to 10 second delay in my slideshow software while it reads the image and resizes the image for my screen. Thumbs Plus gets cranky when I press the space bar too fast. It just can’t read these huge images that fast.

I’ll keep the original images on a dvd. I want to resize them all for my hard drive.

Any software recommendations? Something very simple. Select a folder, enter a percentage (like 60%), keep the original aspect ratio, and click OK. Go get a cup of coffee and find several hundred images resized when I get back.

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IrfanView is free and comes with a batch processing feature that lets you do that.

Here’s how you use it:

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And if you don’t like IrfanView’s old-school interface, here are a bunch of other programs that do the same thing with a different interface:

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I saw that review from 2008. I was going to install BIMP Lite when I realized it hadn’t been update since 2008. Its an XP program and it seems like the developers web site has disappeared.

I’ll look at IrfanView. thanks!

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IrfanView looks a whole lot like Thumbs Plus. Same features, thumbnails, slideshow, basic editing. Except AFAIK Thumbs Plus doesn’t have a batch mode. I’ve used Thumbs Plus since 1997.

It may be time to switch software viewers.

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It’s Mac-only, but GraphicConverteris the gold standard for the kinds of tasks you’re describing. It is literally as easy to use as you describe in the OP. It’s well worth the $40, but you can try it out as shareware.

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JPEG is old as hell and it shouldn’t matter if the software was designed for XP or even Windows 95. The file format hasn’t changed much since then, and a batch converter should still work.

Edit: IrfanView in fact dates back to 1996. It’s received minor updates since then but is still pretty much the same program, with the same archaic interface, but people still use it because it’s powerful, fast, and free.

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Been using IrfanView for years. Good program and the batch conversion feature works well.

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I’ve downloaded IrfanView and will install it later tonight. Sounds like what I needed.

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.I got irfanview installed. Nice.

Is there a way to open multiple pictures? I click a thumbnail and it opens a photo, But it closes that photo when I click another thumbnail.

Thumbs Plus lets me open 6 or 7 photos. Then can be minimized and expaned just like any window.

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I set a couple options. The slideshow needed to cycle back to the first photo. Fixed that. I set the option so the program opens with the last folders I used.

I even tested the batch resize with a few photos. Easy to use.

The only weird thing is it won’t let me open more than one photo at a time. Even photoshop lets you open multiple images. Strange that this program won’t do that. Maybe its restricted until I make a donation?

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There’s an option that says something like “Allow only 1 instance of IrfanView to be open”; uncheck that and you can have multiple windows of it open.

It’s freeware, not shareware, and donating just helps support the author and doesn’t unlock anything additional.

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thanks again Reply.

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Sure thing.

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Change the setting from ‘thumb’ to ‘list’ or ‘details’ & when you open that folder, you will have all pics in that files and you can just do an add all, they move to the lower right window box & hit ‘start batch.’

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I use Irfanview because Windows’ photo viewer doesn’t make use of EXIF rotation data (?? Microsoft). You don’t need any additional program in OS X. Automator is like a GUI batch file editor.

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Picasa will do that, too. You can select a whole bunch of pictures and export them out at any resolution you want. Just in case Irfanview isn’t your cup of tea.

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Fotosizer Batch Image Resizer
( fotosizer.com)

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ThumbsPlus will do it.

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Ditto that.