Batch Image Re-sizing for 3Dawards - Suggestions

[Jeff Mottle]

Hi all,

 

Wow, we certainly got a lot of submissions this year for the 3d awards. Up around 65% from last year! Around 1400 still images, 150 animations and a few dozen real-time pieces.

 

This weekend I have my work cut out for me as I go through all of the images to determine which will go to the judges for final scoring. For this process I have to batch re-size all of the images. I know I can do this in Photoshop, but it's pretty slow. I've used IRfanView in the past as it is very fast, but it tends to add a lot of aliasing during the resize. Worst case I will just let PS run for a few hours, but if anyone has any other apps that have used let me nkow. I might give Lightroom a go too. Not sure if it will be any faster though.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Once I read this I started to thnink about Flickr, and how it automatically resizes the images on upload. I did a quick search, and found a few items taht are specifically geared towards batch resizing. Though nothing I have used, so I can't speak to the quality... The first two were freeware, though one may watermark, the last 4 are shareware.

 

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/bd-sizer/bdsizer.html

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/web-resizer/webresizer.html

http://www.filebuzz.com/fileinfo/54630/Photo_Optimizer.html

http://www.filebuzz.com/fileinfo/40016/Batch_Picture_Resizer.html

http://www.filebuzz.com/fileinfo/27475/BatchPhoto_Pro.html

http://www.filebuzz.com/fileinfo/3648/Batch_It__Pro.html

http://www.filebuzz.com/fileinfo/3585/Batch_It_.html

[Jeff Mottle]

Thanks Travis. I'll give those a try. My script also re-sizes on upload, but I only did one resize and forgot to create thumbnails. ooops. Oh well, I'll just go them offline and then upload them back to the server.

[Chad Warner]

I've used Xnview before, and it has a batch conversion/ re-sizer built in. Plus it's free.

[lina shamat]

rename your images 0123456789....etc... open 3dmax creat plane in the front view press .M .key chose diffuse button then select first image (( 0 )) chose override from the window ..... then chose rendering> render > chose active time segment ....fainaly press render button.............thats it ............ i think its good idea Jeff

[Jeff Mottle]

Last night I gave Lightroom a try. I've used it for years, but never for renaming and batch re-sizing. It's MUCH quicker than Photoshop and has as much flexibility as many dedicated renaming apps. I was able to process two sets of thumbnails (around 2800 images) in about 30 min.

[ihabkal]

rename your images 0123456789....etc... open 3dmax creat plane in the front view press .M .key chose diffuse button then select first image (( 0 )) chose override from the window ..... then chose rendering> render > chose active time segment ....fainaly press render button.............thats it ............ i think its good idea Jeff

 

don't joke about it, 10 years ago a friend of mine used to resize images by rendeirng them on a plane in 3d studio 4 for Dos. He's a genius.

 

 

Jeff, ACDSee has a batch conversion to any format and resizing function, it is great and has a lot of options. I use it all the time.

[Koper]

Don't ya just love Lightroom! The best image precessing application atm imo

[cjjat puresilica]

Why not use Genuine Fractals?

[lina shamat]

i am not joking ......i am so sorry if you think that i am joking

[Alex York]

lightroom will do this very quickly and easily

[Jeff Mottle]

lightroom will do this very quickly and easily

 

Yup, it works really well.

[Shane Gee]

I never issue an image before sending it through lightroom. Best package out there, loads of features and very easy to use.

 

Now all we need is a universal colour profile and monitor management package that actually works on all pc's and monitors and I will be very happy.