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I have PhotoShop Elements, v 1.0, running under Windows XP. I am having trouble with the Batch function.
Problem description: I have a folder of .jpg pictures, each picture about 500KB. I want to use Batch to reduce their size to, say, 100K each so they will be more email friendly (I can do this picture by picture using Save As, but this takes forever.)
Using Batch, under "Convert Image Size", I am given two options. First, I can set the height and width to, say, 1200 x 800. However, since some of these photos have already been cropped, the some of the resulting images are distorted.
The second option on the screen is to set to DPI, with a range of picks from 72 DPI to 600 DPI. No matter which I choose, I get the same sized results. In other words, setting the DPI appears to give you no control over the resulting images size (ie, number of resulting pixels.)
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong, or is this just how batch works? Is there anyway with Batch to just set a parameter, like "reduce to 100KB" as you can do with the sliding bar with Save As? Or, enter something like "reduce all images to 25% of original"??
Any help to a beginner will be appreciated.
Robert Vernon
Problem description: I have a folder of .jpg pictures, each picture about 500KB. I want to use Batch to reduce their size to, say, 100K each so they will be more email friendly (I can do this picture by picture using Save As, but this takes forever.)
Using Batch, under "Convert Image Size", I am given two options. First, I can set the height and width to, say, 1200 x 800. However, since some of these photos have already been cropped, the some of the resulting images are distorted.
The second option on the screen is to set to DPI, with a range of picks from 72 DPI to 600 DPI. No matter which I choose, I get the same sized results. In other words, setting the DPI appears to give you no control over the resulting images size (ie, number of resulting pixels.)
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong, or is this just how batch works? Is there anyway with Batch to just set a parameter, like "reduce to 100KB" as you can do with the sliding bar with Save As? Or, enter something like "reduce all images to 25% of original"??
Any help to a beginner will be appreciated.
Robert Vernon
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