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Resizing alot of photos
Chris Large, Photographer
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Okotoks | AB | Canada | Posted: 12:23 AM on 06.03.10 |
->> I have a project with 5000+ images - jpegs all about 6 MB's each. They are journals from WW 1 medical records. My client wants them re-sized to a more usable total file but still able to view them on a computer and zoom in to read the descriptions in the journals. They will never be printed ( and if they were the original files are retained) so it only needs enough rez and size to work on a laptop.
I've fooled around with PM (using the mail settings) but haven't found the combination of size, quality etc that will do the job plus the rendering time is hours..almost days.
I have 50 gigs worth data...would love to shrink it to 5.
Anybody have ideas....other apps that would work with this kind of volume? And would really dig being able to apply abit of sharpening too.
Mac only.
Thanks
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 12:42 AM on 06.03.10 |
->> Create a Photoshop Action.
Some ideas:
Image Size> 2500pixels on longest side.
Smart sharpen filter.
Save as JPG Quality at 8 - or even 6 in a folder you specify.
Close
It also helps if you push [TAB] on your keyboard to hide the palettes while the action works. |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 1:42 AM on 06.03.10 |
| ->> create action in photoshop literally save as then enter your specs. I had to do this recently for 2500 sports images from the spring season for a client and the action took less than an hour to size and resave the files on a dual core pc with 8gb ram. |
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Scott MacDonald, Photographer
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Salinas | CA | USA | Posted: 2:17 AM on 06.03.10 |
| ->> Lightroom would do the trick. If you only have Photoshop, then Image processor is what you want -- it's under File/Scripts. |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 2:39 AM on 06.03.10 |
->> As others have said, make a photoshop action. I am fairly new to photomechanic but you should be able to open a contact sheet of the images and then save them in a new folder. On the "image processing" window you can set the scaling to whatever dimensions you want. Not sure how the overall time compares with PS.
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Wally Nell, Photographer
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CAIRO | EG | EGYPT | Posted: 2:53 AM on 06.03.10 |
->> I normally use PM for doing something like this. I know you said you played around with it, but perhaps you could trying the following:
Select all the pictures you want to resize
Right click and choose SAVE AS
This will bring up a box where you can choose your size settings, and an alternate target folder. Adjust as you need to and just let it run. Should not take very long.
If you tried this already, then I do not know what will work faster. It works fast for me. |
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Mark Peters, Photographer
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Highland | IL | USA | Posted: 7:30 AM on 06.03.10 |
| ->> If you have Canon software, DPP can do this, though it will be time consuming (I think any program is going to be time consuming). Put them in a folder, open DPP and navigate to that folder. When the select all button becomes active, click on it. Then batch process, save to a different folder, click resize, enter dimensions and click original file name and add a string - e.g. small or (2), click execute - go to dinner. |
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Neil Turner, Photographer
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Bournemouth | UK | United Kingdom | Posted: 8:00 AM on 06.03.10 |
->> I would strongly agree with what Wally said. I use the "save as" function in Photo Mechanic on a very regular basis. My largest commercial client want to see all of the images as full-size JPEGs and then as 1000 pixel along the longest side JPEGs and Photo Mechanic does this very quickly and very neatly.
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Bill Vaughn, Photographer
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Huntsville | Al | United States | Posted: 8:05 AM on 06.03.10 |
| ->> I would lean toward Light Room over Photoshop for speed. Import the photos, then export them using the parameters your client will be happy with. You can set a long side size, jpg quality, add sharpening etc all on the export. |
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Stew Milne, Photographer
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Providence | RI | USA | Posted: 8:56 AM on 06.03.10 |
->> I would say use PM's "save as" function, but don't know if all 5000 images are in one folder. If they are, then opening that contact sheet would take a long time to load and make it run slow.
The other option, creating an action is another option...one which I do for processing a large amount of pix for clients. However, the Image Processor function sounds the best. You can set it to resize and run an action on a folder of images that has subfolders as well.
Scott: Thanks for the info on the Image Processor in PS. I didn't know it was there and this option is what I've been looking for to process images for a certain client. I've needed to keep the folder and sub folder structure, and wasn't sure of an easy way to do it. This sounds perfect. |
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Brad Barr, Photographer
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Port St. Lucie | FL | USA | Posted: 9:16 AM on 06.03.10 |
| ->> there is a free script that will do this (and much much more if you want it to) its called resizerlite Just google it. It will not only resize, but makes adding borders, keystrokes, logos, text, exif, whatever you want a snap. Especially nice as it works with vert or horiz images and will make them exactly 4x6 or 5x7 (or any other size) you want regardless of orientation. |
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