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Posted by Checkers (Member # 63) on :

Hiya 'Heads,
I have a bunch of digital pictures that I'm looking to post to the web. Before I do, I need to first, reduce the file size (they're about 500k each) & then make thumbnails. Is this something that Corel PhotoPaint 10 or Adobe Photoshop can do? If not, is there such a monster that can handle this project?
I used thumbs plus a while ago, but from what I recall, it does thumbnails only & doesn't reduce the original file size.
Thanks in advance.
Havin' fun,
Checkers

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Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :

Brian,

You are in luck. Photoshop does this sort of thing.

If you are familiar with Actions in photoshop, you can create an Action that does the resizing for you, as long as the images are the same pixel dimensions because the actions wont prompt you for the size of each image as it runs through the process.

Basically you go through the steps on the first image while the "Record" button is activated.. this records everything you do into an action.

Then you use the "Batch Processing" tool.. It's under one of the menus, I cant recall which one right now because I havent used it in a while but I know it's there somewhere.. it's not hidden very deeply..

That tool lets you specify the source directory, the destination directory, and the action to perform.

You might need two actions.. one for resizing the source images, and another to make the thumbnails to go into a different folder.

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