Freeware .JPG Reduction (Entire Directory)

howabouttheiris · Addict Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 677 City: Austin, TX

Hi,

Anyone know of a program that will do a jpg reduction on an entire directory, saving them as a new file name? I am sick of doing this in paint, but wanted to see if someone had freeware, before I wrote code to do this. (I understand that google's picassa will do this, but I do not want to upload the images)

ie.. Change

one.jpg 3.8M
two.jpg 4.1M
...

To

one.jpg 3.8M
one_small.jpg 500k
two.jpg 4.1M
two_small.jpg 540k
...

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Does GIMP (free photoshop ripoff) have Actions? If it does you could just create an action to reduce all the photos to a certain resolution.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

This is the one I use. Does exactly what you're talking about.

http://adionsoft.net/fastimageresize/

howabouttheiris · Addict Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 677 City: Austin, TX

Wakebrad,
Thanks! As you mentioned, that is exactly what I was talking about.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

howabouttheiris, Microsoft has a PowerToy that will do this. Do a Google search for XP Powertoys and look for the image resizer.

Works great, and is native.

oshensurfer · Posted: Apr 07, 2008 8:41 am Post subject:

chavez, Nice. Just installed. Forgot where I got that on my last machine.

JRW160 · Soul Rider Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 367 City: Huntsville