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!
P.S. I met people there who participate in the forum for my favorite singer. I suspect it would be equally interesting, to meet many of the people who participate in this Mailing List.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@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!
ImageMagick's "convert" utility can do that.. Don't have the syntax handy, but it's fairly trivial. Just work on a copy first :D
Lanny Marcus wrote:
A good way to zip them up in one file that can be unzipped on Windoze boxes? TIA!
Maybe something like:
convert -resize 640x480 *.jpg concert.pdf
Might require a lot of RAM...
Mogens
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@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.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@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
Lanny Marcus wrote:
Is there a way I can have a photo editor reduce all of themto VGA size, without doing that 272 times?
Use convert from the ImageMagick package (convert -resize).
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?
yum install zip (if it isn't installed already).
Ralph
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!
P.S. I met people there who participate in the forum for my favorite singer. I suspect it would be equally interesting, to meet many of the people who participate in this Mailing List.
Why not upload to one of the online photo sharing sites like flikr or google's picasa web albums, send a link and let the recipients worry about whether or how to download copies?
on 5-7-2009 6:08 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I returned from Bogot� 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!
P.S. I met people there who participate in the forum for my favorite singer. I suspect it would be equally interesting, to meet many of the people who participate in this Mailing List.
Why not upload to one of the online photo sharing sites like flikr or google's picasa web albums, send a link and let the recipients worry about whether or how to download copies?
Ding Ding Ding!!!
That is the best answer so far. That way people can get full size images of pics they might want to print, and just view the rest.
On May 7, 2009, at 8:57 AM, 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!
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
the ImageMagick tool you probably want to use is called 'convert'.
as for compressing the folder of images, `yum install zip; man zip`.
-steve
-- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v http://five.sentenc.es
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
On Thu, May 07, 2009, John R Pierce wrote:
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 ?
The ``convert'' program from ImageMagick will do pretty much anything you want including scaling, conversion from one image type to another, combining multiple images into PDF or fax/tif files, etc.
It is far better to e-mail links to files on a web or ftp site than to send the images directly.
Bill
Quoting Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com:
On Thu, May 07, 2009, John R Pierce wrote:
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!
look around for mass-image-resize. does just what you want
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why not post them on a website like picasaweb.google.com (since you mentioned picasa) and then just email the URL ?
The ``convert'' program from ImageMagick will do pretty much anything you want including scaling, conversion from one image type to another, combining multiple images into PDF or fax/tif files, etc.
It is far better to e-mail links to files on a web or ftp site than to send the images directly.
Bill
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At Thu, 07 May 2009 11:16:24 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
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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Robert Heller wrote:
why not post them on a website like picasaweb.google.com (since you mentioned picasa) and then just email the URL ? ...
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
my point was, don't email the files, email a link to them on a photo gallery website... that way the user clicks on the link and can view the gallery online, and download the pictures if he wants.... if you mail a zip file, the user has to save the zip file, unzip it somewhere, then find and run a local picture viewer against the generated folder.
I suggested picasa because the original poster mentioned it, Picasa will post a gallery to your (free up to 1GB) account on the picasaweb server with a single click of the album "sync' button...
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@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!
<snip> Thank you, to everyone who responded and for all of the ideas! ImageMagick seems to be one way to go. Posting them to Picasa online, the other way. I agree that emailing them to everyone wastes a lot of bandwidth. I must make them available to the Webmaster of the official web site and one of the chorus singers (a serious amateur photographer) has a blog and he wants them. And now I have people who participate in the forum who want them to. If I can get them posted on Picasa for free and they can download any of them they like, that's the best way probably and the easiest for me. I was standing about one meter from the stage, so I have some very good photos, along with some bad ones. Thanks again! I will check out how to get them uploaded to Google's Picasa, since I have Picasa installed.
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