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

Thu May 7 13:05:20 UTC 2009
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

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.

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