Managing Image Quality

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09-06-2004
stickman

Managing Image Quality

I want to manage the quality of images in a folder. Lets say I have Image A.jpg and Image B.jpg in an Images directory. I want to change the quality of both those images to a smaller quality, but I want the program to get all the images withing the Images directory and change the quality. This is useful to me because I own a site that has a lot of images in it (urban-coverzone.com) and I don't like 2 MB images on the site, so I change the image quality of the image, but it sometimes is a long and boring process. I want to make something to do this for me, but I have no clue where to start. Any help is greatly appreciated.
09-06-2004
Salem

GIMP and Paintshop-pro have "batch" capabilities for this sort of stuff
09-06-2004
stickman

Never heard of either of them. Thanks for the info.
09-06-2004
alphaoide

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Originally Posted by stickman

Never heard of either of them. Thanks for the info.

They're free (GIMP) or cheaper (Paintshop) version of Adobe Photoshop, image editing software.
09-06-2004
stickman

I have Adobe Photoshop, but I don't think that it allows directory image compressing. I haven't learned the program entirely so I may be wrong.
09-06-2004
alphaoide

I've never done batch processing on Photoshop either, but a quick glance...(on Photoshop CS)
If you open, say a jpeg file, then go to Image->Image Size, you'll get the dialog box that will let you change the image pixel size or its resolution. Just save those steps as an "action".
Then go to File->Automate->Batch, set to do "action" that you just save, set source folder, etc.

Another option from the web world would be to create a php script utilizing ImageMagick to resize the uploaded picture. That's how web photo gallery works to create thumbnails and stuff. ImageMagick is a separate installation from php but you could install it yourself as a user (non-admin). Php also has image manipulation library called GD,. It's less powerful than ImageMagick so you have to check it out yourself.

Either way, that's all I know on the subject so if you ask me further I won't respond :)
09-07-2004
stickman

Quote:

Originally Posted by alphaoide

I've never done batch processing on Photoshop either, but a quick glance...(on Photoshop CS)
If you open, say a jpeg file, then go to Image->Image Size, you'll get the dialog box that will let you change the image pixel size or its resolution. Just save those steps as an "action".
Then go to File->Automate->Batch, set to do "action" that you just save, set source folder, etc.

When I opened up Image->Image Size, I didn't see where I could save the action. I have Adobe Photoshop CS 8.0, if that makes any difference.

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Originally Posted by alphaoide

Another option from the web world would be to create a php script utilizing ImageMagick to resize the uploaded picture. That's how web photo gallery works to create thumbnails and stuff. ImageMagick is a separate installation from php but you could install it yourself as a user (non-admin). Php also has image manipulation library called GD,. It's less powerful than ImageMagick so you have to check it out yourself.

I would use a PHP script, but I use FTP to upload the images, unless there is a way with PHP that can manipulate the image when its on my harddrive. I understand PHP more than I do C++, but I'm not sure if PHP can do that. I guess I'll play around with PHP and maybe come up with a solution.

Thanks for all of your guys help. Its much appreciated. Now only if there was a way I could help you guys out.
09-07-2004
alphaoide

Okay, you misunderstood me.
"Action" in photoshop is like "macro" in MS Word. Basically what you'd do is start the "action" recording, do all the steps to optimize your images, and then stop recording "action". Just look up the help file how to create an "action"
09-07-2004
stickman

Quote:

Originally Posted by alphaoide

Okay, you misunderstood me.
"Action" in photoshop is like "macro" in MS Word. Basically what you'd do is start the "action" recording, do all the steps to optimize your images, and then stop recording "action". Just look up the help file how to create an "action"

Yeah, I did misunderstand you. I understand cleary now. I tested it out, but I got a file size larger than what I get with Paint and it has a horrible quality, really blurry, and I don't think I'll use it. Thanks for the info anyway.