Automatic reduction of 7 meg images

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DaveC
Nov 8, 2006
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I have my new digital camera set up to take full resolution 7 megapixel images – in case I ever want to crop or do a big enlargement. Unfortunately these images are filling up my computer hard drive.

Is there any easy, automatic way to reduce the size (pixel count) of a bunch of these images and then re-compress them as jpegs? I can do it one at a time using PS 7, but it takes forever.

If I skip the pixel reduction step and just recompress the image at a low quality do I accomplish about the same result?

It would be nice if high resolution digital cameras allowed one to reduce the size of selected images as one was reviewing the images on the camera display. One could retain the best images in high resolution.

Thanks for any suggestions,

DaveC
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Grant Robertson
Nov 8, 2006
If you have PS 7 you probablu have ImageReady as well. Look up how to make droplets in ImageReady. They are basically macros that you can create icons for. Then you just drag and drop a whole set of pictures on them and they all get converted in a batch. I set the droplets to save the file to a different folder so I don’t accidentally overwrite my originals.
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bmoag
Nov 8, 2006
There are remarkable devices called recordable CDs and DVDs. These allow you to offload these files from your hard drive rather than destroy irreplaceable image data.
No joke.
These things actually exist.
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DaveC
Nov 8, 2006
Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions about ImageReady droplets and DVD/CDs. I vaguely remember reading about droplets, but I have never heard of DVDs and CDs. Are those the shiny things I bought to hang from my Christmas tree?

DaveC
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arnor
Nov 9, 2006
Hi Dave,

I have my new digital camera set up to take full resolution 7 megapixel images – in case I ever want to crop or do a big enlargement. Unfortunately these images are filling up my computer hard drive.

You can burn them to DVD. A DVD would take close to 2,000 of them (if they are JPEGs, much bigger if they are raw format). Or you could buy an external drive. Or get a removable internal drive. I have a 120GB old external USB2 drive that I use for photobackups only. I also have a 360GB removable drive that I use for off site backups of programming work as well as photos. We bought two 360GB drives and removable drive racks at Altex for less than $300 for backups. DVDs are a good option, but can take a while to burn. I’ve also read that they are not reliable long term storage (years and years) but I don’t know how true that is.

Best regards,

Arnor Baldvinsson
San Antonio, TX
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Bob 4
Nov 11, 2006
There are a several great products available for this problem Dave.

The best for the money is Corel’s Photo Album 6, which was given away with PSP-X and can be bought for $39.00 from the Corel web site.

The program will burn your digital image files to a CD or read CD’s you have already burned with other applications. It will build a database cataloging the images on a CD by thumbnail, creation date and any other information you want to use in searching and retrieving individual images later.

Quien

I have my new digital camera set up to take full resolution 7 megapixel images – in case I ever want to crop or do a big
enlargement. Unfortunately these images are filling up my computer hard drive.
Is there any easy, automatic way to reduce the size (pixel count) of a bunch of these images and then re-compress them as jpegs?
I can do it one at a time using PS 7, but it takes forever.
If I skip the pixel reduction step and just recompress the image at a low quality do I accomplish about the same result?

It would be nice if high resolution digital cameras allowed one to reduce the size of selected images as one was reviewing the
images on the camera display. One could retain the best images in high resolution.
Thanks for any suggestions,

DaveC

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