App for batch resizing images with thumbnail for web?

meglome

Looking for a freeware or shareware tool (read: cheap) which can batch resize images and also create a thumbnail for use on the web. Suggestions?

DJB

If you want to resize them on your PC first, use Microsoft's Image Resize Powertoy. It allows you to highlight a bunch of images in windows explorer and resize in one go. You need XP though. Download at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

If you want to resize the images on a website, you can use SlideShowPro Director. It's a cool app for managing photos. You can upload a bunch of photos to the app in one go, resize them using the app, and with a little server side magic (or using slideshowpro), load them directly onto your site. It's only $20 too. Download at:

www.slideshowpro.net

Rgds, Dave

meglome

Thanks Dave

I'm specifcally looking for a tool which will batch resize the images but at the same time make a thumbnail of the image.

randombar

phpThumb worked kinda for me?

I'm using the flickr api for web work at the moment too?

Eoin

meglome wrote: »

Thanks Dave

I'm specifcally looking for a tool which will batch resize the images but at the same time make a thumbnail of the image.

Is it essential that it's a one time procedure? I use pixresizer to resize to a manageable size for the web, and then run it again to do the thumbnails.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Might be worth checking out thumbsplus, it has good batch functionality... not sure about the thumbnails, but you could always put them through a second pass at an even smaller size and generate them that way.

di11on

If you have Photoshop, you could create a droplet. You can record your task and then repeat it for as many images as you like. If you put a shortcut to the droplet in your send to folder, you just need to right click on a bunch of images and select sent to and then your droplet. That way, you can do whatever you like to your images, not just resize them.

tommycahir

I currently use FastStone Image Viewer faststone to resize and rename images in batches. might be worth looking into and is freeware which is also a bonus :-)

squibs

Gallery Mage will resize, rename, make thumbs and upload all in one. It is a java app, but it's pretty fast.

alanjgrace

Easy Thumbnails is the one for the job, will create batches of images and you can select your size or quality and the prefix etc before them and its free

axer

Irfanview or Visualizer Photo Resize

meglome

Thanks everyone.