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

[John R Pierce]

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