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sliknik wrote:

I highly recommend Faststone Photo Resizer.

flip-mode wrote:

Thanks Matt. I'll try using Photoshop first since I already have that installed.

just brew it! wrote:

flip-mode wrote:

Thanks Matt. I'll try using Photoshop first since I already have that installed.

In the past, I've done stuff like this using a fairly ancient version of Corel PhotoPaint so I'd assume Photoshop can do it too. In PhotoPaint you did it by creating a macro, and telling it to iterate the macro over all the files to be converted.

flip-mode wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

flip-mode wrote:

Thanks Matt. I'll try using Photoshop first since I already have that installed.

In the past, I've done stuff like this using a fairly ancient version of Corel PhotoPaint so I'd assume Photoshop can do it too. In PhotoPaint you did it by creating a macro, and telling it to iterate the macro over all the files to be converted.

Photoshops batch interface looks confusing, probably because it is capable of so much more than simple file type conversion. In this case, simpler is better, so I want to look at the FastStone thing real quick.

flip-mode wrote:

Thanks all. The FastStone thing is very nice because in the default view it shows all the images in the folder and allows you to sort by type, select a range, and the right click > batch. Very very simple. But, JBI, I still want to look into the ImageMagic solution because, being a bash tool, I wager that it has the ability to very easily do this recursively. That would be win.

just brew it! wrote:

Just type "convert" at a command prompt and see if anything comes up... if you get a list of command line options, then ImageMagick is already there.

Momento Mori wrote:

In Photoshop all you need to do is go to the actions tab, which is normally under the history tab on your right hand side of the interface assuming default tool placements use the icon that says create action. Hit the record button sort of like making a Macro in other apps, open one of the files in question in fact you can actually already have it open before you hit record in any case, the record needs to be on when you do the save as to your target directory. After it has recorded you doing the 'save as action' with the settings you wanted hit the stop recording button. Save the Action, you should now be able to use it from the batch menu under File > Automate > Batch, select your new action, select the source directory and the target directory, let photoshop do the rest. I can give a more detailed description if you get stuck anywhere; these instructions assume Adobe Photoshop 8.0 (CS1).

Momento Mori wrote:

It sounds harder than it actually is, it is very quick process in Photoshop.

flip-mode wrote:

And now it's installed. Heh. I love Ubuntu.

find . -name '*.tif' | perl -pi -e 'print $_; $_ =~ s/tif/png/;' | xargs -n 2 convert

find . -name '*.tif' | perl -pi -e 'print $_; $_ =~ s/tif/png/;' | xargs -n 2 -P 4 convert

Momento Mori wrote:

In Photoshop all you need to do is go to the actions tab, which is normally under the history tab on your right hand side of the interface assuming default tool placements use the icon that says create action. Hit the record button sort of like making a Macro in other apps, open one of the files in question in fact you can actually already have it open before you hit record in any case, the record needs to be on when you do the save as to your target directory. After it has recorded you doing the 'save as action' with the settings you wanted hit the stop recording button. Save the Action, you should now be able to use it from the batch menu under File > Automate > Batch, select your new action, select the source directory and the target directory, let photoshop do the rest. I can give a more detailed description if you get stuck anywhere; these instructions assume Adobe Photoshop 8.0 (CS1).