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Automated resizing of images

  • 13-05-2004 09:11AM
    #1
    aaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭


    Ok, here's the deal. A company I work for needs to be able to resize client submitted images/logos to certain dimensions so as to fit onto a webpage. I don't know whether they want to be able to them in batches. I know Photoshop can do this no hassle as you could just record a new action set whilst resizing an image and apply this to any image or folder of images. Adobe Photoshop would be a very expensive solution to this problem though so I'm looking for an alternative?


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  • #2
    raphaelS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭raphaelS


    There's plenty of tools to do that...
    Photoshop will be one be you can have a look into PaintShop Pro, ACD See...

    Then you can also do that on a server (if the settings for the size are always the same) with PHP. There's few libraries for images manipulation, automatic creation of thumbnails,...

    Raphael


  • #3
    aaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭aaf


    I'm basically looking for the cheapest solution to this. They won't be using the graphics software for anything else other than resizing images so a few hundred euro for Photoshop is pretty much out of the question. Don't want to get into programming bits of code either. Surely there's a free widely used graphics program that could do this for me.


  • #4
    raphaelS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭raphaelS


    http://www.tucows.com/imagetools_imageresizers_default.html

    Try these...


  • #5
    aaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭aaf


    Think I'm gonna go with IrfanView. It does everything I need it to and more. And it's free!!:D


  • #6
    DRakE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭DRakE


    GReat program that.. :)


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  • #7
    aaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭aaf


    Update. IrfanView does the job fine. Another problem now. The client logo has to be 1000x10 ppi! So, I need a program that allows you to use a canvas so I can just make the canvas that size leaving a lot of whitespace and make sure the logo fits into the 100 pixel height restriction. Am I making sense? It's basically a banner like the Boards.ie one above. I've also looked at Paint Shop Pro and it does the whole canvas thing aswell. Looking for something a little cheaper though. Does Adobe Photoshop Elements do it? I think it does. Any other suggestions?


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