PhillyKev 0 #1 December 3, 2003 Anyone have a suggestion, preferably freeware. Have lots of pics from digital camera. Full size images would fill my webspace and take to long to view. Any suggestions for decent software that will reduce image file size on batches of photos to online viewing quality? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #2 December 3, 2003 Bring out the Gimp ...Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 15 #3 December 3, 2003 I've used ThumbsPlus in the past and it worked well.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #4 December 3, 2003 Definately not freeware, but Adobe Photoshop is the gold standard. It's got some real nifty automation functions, so you can do very large batches at once. Its quite expensive though... Cheaper then Photoshop, but nearly as good is a shareware program called Paint Shop Pro - you can download it from www.jasc.com. As shareware goes, it's really, really good. Almost as good as Photoshop, which costs 10X as much. Lastly, there's the GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/ - I have no experience with the windows version though, the linux version is quite good. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vdschoor 0 #5 December 3, 2003 QuoteDefinately not freeware, but Adobe Photoshop is the gold standard. It's got some real nifty automation functions, so you can do very large batches at once. I have to agree, I was into the cheap "create a quick web gallery" software as well, but now that I have figured out how to automate things in Photoshop it has become the only image editor I use.. Iwan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #6 December 3, 2003 Well, not doing this on any kind of serious basis. Just want to post a couple hundred photos on my personal webspace from my ISP to share with family and friends. Thanks for the suggestions, all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vdschoor 0 #7 December 3, 2003 QuoteWell, not doing this on any kind of serious basis. Just want to post a couple hundred photos on my personal webspace from my ISP to share with family and friends. I wasn't saying the cheap software is bad. If this is just a one off web posting, I would go with some shareware that's out there as well. Photoshop just has a lot of extra functionality that is really nice. Check out Tucows they have loads of shareware, all categorized, that can do this. Iwan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indyz 1 #8 December 3, 2003 If you are running Linux/BSD I have a short perl script that generates galleries like this. The captions were added by hand after the HTML was generated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
genoyamamoto 0 #9 December 3, 2003 check out http://www.imagemagick.org/ the binaries are usually pre-installed on unix systems (I use 'convert' when dealing with photocd's). They apparently have windows source and precompiled executables. It requires some initial work but pays off if you do it more than once. oh and it's free Gotta go... plaything needs to spank me Feel the hate... Photos here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
