How to do bulk (batch?) resize operations for digital camera pics

Greetings,

I just bought a new digital camera and used it on my wonderful trip to NYC. I bought a Sony Memory Gate stick and took close to 200 pictures at 5.1 mega pixels in size. The pictures look great. HOWEVER, when I downloaded them to my computer and pull them up in PhotoShop 7.0 they ARE FIGGIN MASSIVE. Although I can manually resize them all to 4×6 size, it is going to take me a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong friggin time to do this for 200+ pictures.

Since all the pictures are exactly the same size, there has to be a way to resize all the pictures at once to the 4×6 size. My question is, how do I do a bulk (or batch) resize operation on ALL the pictures in my ImageTransfer folder (the folder the pictures get downloaded to)? The ‘Help’ guide speaks of a ‘File – Automate – Batch’ tool. I looked at it, but it looks too confusing. Is there an EASY way to do this? I assume there must be because this is a common problem more and more frequent with today’s HUGE memory stick sizes.

Help.
Derek

Greetings,

I just bought a new digital camera and used it on my wonderful trip to NYC. I bought a Sony Memory Gate stick and took close to 200 pictures at 5.1 mega pixels in size. The pictures look great. HOWEVER, when I downloaded them to my computer and pull them up in PhotoShop 7.0 they ARE FIGGIN MASSIVE. Although I can manually resize them all to 4×6 size, it is going to take me a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong friggin time to do this for 200+ pictures.

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Greetings,

I just bought a new digital camera and used it on my wonderful trip to NYC. I bought a Sony Memory Gate stick and took close to 200 pictures at 5.1 mega pixels in size. The pictures look great. HOWEVER, when I downloaded them to my computer and pull them up in PhotoShop 7.0 they ARE FIGGIN MASSIVE. Although I can manually resize them all to 4×6 size, it is going to take me a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong friggin time to do this for 200+ pictures.

It’s a routine thing and there are a few ways to do it.

One is to use the File->Automate->Web Gallery and tell it to resize your pictures to 4×6 (288×432 pixels), then throw away everything but the Images folder. 🙂 Cheap and easy.

Another is to open your Actions window. Open any file. Press ‘new action’ icon, then take File->Automate->Fit Image. Type in the dimensions (288×432 pixels), then press the Stop button in Actions. Now you have a neat action. Next just take Automate->Batch and use that action against a whole folder of your images.

It’s a routine thing and there are a few ways to do it.

One is to use the File->Automate->Web Gallery and tell it to resize your pictures to 4×6 (288×432 pixels), then throw away everything but the

folder. 🙂 Cheap and easy.

Another is to open your Actions window. Open any file. Press ‘new

icon, then take File->Automate->Fit Image. Type in the dimensions

pixels), then press the Stop button in Actions. Now you have a neat

Next just take Automate->Batch and use that action against a whole

your images.

Well, that’s fine if the OP is merely going to E-mail them or put them on a web site. If printing is planned, however, he’ll need a lot more pixels.