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From: ?? on 1 Mar 2006 18:51
Anyone care to recommend an app to make photos a nice small size but not
forfeiting the quality?
Thanks
PS - An addon to the likes of Paint Shop Pro would be helpful


From: Craig on 1 Mar 2006 19:34
?? wrote:

> Anyone care to recommend an app to make photos a nice small size but
> not forfeiting the quality? Thanks PS - An addon to the likes of
> Paint Shop Pro would be helpful
>
>

I've used Irfanview (3.98g) to run batch reductions and renaming of
files. (One hiccup: v3.98, which is the one currently availabe on
most websties, has a bug preventing batch processing. 3.98g fixes that
and is on the irfanview forum: http://irfanview-online.de/phpbben/.

I've also used Gimp 2.2 (gimp.org) with an extension called "Dave's
Batch Processor" DBP (http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html).

I can recommend both of them

Both were used to reduce and/or rotate and/or rename dozens of jpg's for
the purpose of uploading to my coppermine (coppermine-gallery.net) photo
gallery. I chose to reduce the images down to 800x600. The results
were excellent/very good. Neither proggie overwrites the original. A
big plus, imo, is the *large* communities that both of these products
engender. The problem that came up w/Irfanview was solved in 5 minutes,
for example.

I strongly recommend that you take the time to read the doc for DBP
(members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html) and try the tutorial for
irfanview (coppermine-gallery.net/tutorial/irfanview1.php). If I had
not, I wouldn't have been able to figure out either of them.

Both of these proggies do more than just resizing. If you're looking
for a proggie that *just* resizes, trying googling
pricelesswarehome.org. There seem to be good ones there, for example,
I've heard good things about faststone's Image Viewer.

Regardless of what you choose, let us know!

hth,
-Craig
From: Dan on 2 Mar 2006 14:15
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:51:41 -0000, "??" <news(a)kidsnews.au.org> wrote:

>Anyone care to recommend an app to make photos a nice small size but not
>forfeiting the quality?
>Thanks
>PS - An addon to the likes of Paint Shop Pro would be helpful

Do you have PSP? If so, the more recent versions have a built-in JPEG
optimizer:

"The JPEG Optimizer dialog contains two tabs where you configure the
settings and a third that displays estimated download times of the
image at various Internet speeds."

Maybe the PSP newsgroup could be of help to you:
comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro

--
Regards,
Dan

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