Scale a bunch of images at one time.

[Steven Heimann]

find . -name "*.jpg" -exec convert \{\} -resize 640x480 \{\}small \;

or some variation of the above to move to a different directory or a
smaller size etc..

convert is part of imagemagick.

On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 14:15 -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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kip
> -- 
> Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>
> 
>