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 -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell