On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:41:44 -0600 Jan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021001 08:07]: > > On 30 Sep 2002 17:16:24 -0400 Paul Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have > > > a folder with 42 photos from my digital camera and would like to > > > make them 1/3 the size to put on the web in as few strokes as > > > possible. Ok, at least in an easy and reproducable way. > > > > ImageMagick - the mogrify command therein - will do it: > > > > http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html > > > > Something like > > > > mogrify -resize 33%x33% *.jpg > > > > would appear to work. (Of course this will _replace_ all the > > existing .jpg files with their smaller mogrifications, so back them > > up first!) > > I agree that mogrify works ... I use it all the time. One tip, though > ... I have found that mogrify seems to have trouble compressing photos > from my camera (an Olympus 3030z). If I load them into the Gimp first > and save them, then when mogrify resamples them they will be a half to > a tenth (on small images) the size! Mogrify compresses jpeg's at 75 on a scale of 100. Gimp, by default, also saves jpeg's at 75. So, I wonder if the size difference is a result of undergoing a 25% compression two times? You might try mogrify and specifying a quality of 50 and see if you get comparable results--and save yourself a step. I'm going to try it now. Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. (Mark Twain)
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