[CentOS] OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 07 May 2009 11:16:24 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> Lanny Marcus wrote:
> > I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total
> > 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there
> > for the concerts I attended. I have Picasa, gThumb (not really an
> > Editor but I believe it can reduce the quality of photos) and The GIMP
> > installed. Is there a way I can have a photo editor reduce all of them
> > to VGA size, without doing that 272 times? The people who will receive
> > them  are using M$ Windoze.  Also, they are in a folder and it doesn't
> > seem possible to attach a folder in gmail. A good way to zip them up
> > in one file that can be unzipped on Windoze boxes? TIA!
> >   
> 
> why not post them on a website like picasaweb.google.com (since you 
> mentioned picasa) and then just email the URL ?
> 
> picasaweb will autoscale them to a variety of sizes and show them to the 
> user sized to his screen.  for instance, my pictures of an astronomy 
> campout I went to last fall... 
> http://picasaweb.google.com/jhn.pierce/CalStar08

Or just install ImageMagicK and use convert and zip in a script:

#!/bin/sh
mkdir VGA
for im in *.jpeg; do 
  convert $in -geometry 640x480 VGA/$in
done
zip BogotaVGA.zip -r VGA

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