On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 02:15:31PM -0600, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> I took a bunch of photographs of a vacation trip and want to make web
> pages with the pictures. Fortunately or unfortunately the camera took
> very high resolution pictures. Too high a resolution for a web page.
>
> Playing around with GIMP Image editor I found if I scale the pictures
> 25% in the horizontal and vertical, I get a pretty good picture for my
> web page. It is about 1/16 the original pixels, so it loads a lot
> quicker and is the right size for the page.
>
> Here is the problem. I have about 150 of these .jpg images in a
> directory that I want to scale the same way. I have been renaming them
> with an "s" appended to the original name (for small), but that is a
> "nice to have" and not necessary.
>
> Is there a way to scale all of of the pictures in one operation? How?
> With what tool? Where is the documentation?
There are a few options
1. Use a tool like f-spot or install Picasa on your computer. Both
can create a web-pabe with scaled down photographs and thumbnails.
2. Use a script which uses Imagemagick's "convert". Here is one that
I found somewhere:
#!/bin/sh
for i in *.JPG ; do
{
out=`echo "$i" | sed "s/JPG/sm.jpg/"`
echo $i
echo $out
convert -scale "800x800" $i $out
};
done
3. Investigate programs which can create web galleries like gallery
and gallery2.
Regards
Johann
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