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

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Bill Campbell <centos at 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

d

>>>
>>
>> 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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