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

Thu May 7 13:06:06 UTC 2009
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> 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!
>
>
> You can do this with ImageMagick's tools.
>
> mkdir shrunk
> for in in *.jpg ; do convert $i -resize 640x480 shrunk/$i ; done
> change 640x480 to whatever size you want.


er, for I in.. not for in in...
need coffee. too early

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