Batch Resizing in Adobe Bridge or CS4?

Rather27

I have huge files from my Canon 5D Mark II and I would like to resize them to fit on a disk or be emailed to family and friends.

I use Adobe Bridge to organize them and CS4 to work on them..

I have entire folders that need to be resized and I'm wondering what is the fastest/best way to do this

I tried using Tools>Photoshop>Image Processor and it seemed to work, putting all my files in a separate folder labeled JPEG's, but once I clicked on the folder and looked at the images, even though their file size looked good 700-900k, once I opened them they were still the large 60MB versions I had tried to resize??:scratch

if anyone can offer a little help or suggestions I greatly appreciate it! Thanks in Advance!!

BradfordBenn

When you say you have CS4 does your version include Fireworks? I use that quite a bit for batch resizing. I will use the Batch Command and then the Scale command in the menu (I do that with CS3 I am hoping it is the same in CS4).

The other option is if you have Windows you can right click on all of them and say send to email and it will ask if you want to resize.

Rather27

BradfordBenn wrote: »

When you say you have CS4 does your version include Fireworks? I use that quite a bit for batch resizing. I will use the Batch Command and then the Scale command in the menu (I do that with CS3 I am hoping it is the same in CS4).

The other option is if you have Windows you can right click on all of them and say send to email and it will ask if you want to resize.

Hmmm? Not sure if I have Fireworks? I'm also using a MAC....

BinaryFx

In it's simplest form, one would record an action using the image size command, to resize with interpolation to a smaller % size.

Next, the batch command would be run using this action.


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BinaryFx

Moving on from a simple recording of the image/image size command using a fixed %...

One would use the file/auotmate/fit image size to constrain the width and height to a fixed target pixel size, such as when working with mixed portrait and landscape images.

Note: In the simple examples in the these posts, the output file format and other options are the same as the input file.


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Rather27

BinaryFx wrote: »

In it's simplest form, one would record an action using the image size command, to resize with interpolation to a smaller % size.

Next, the batch command would be run using this action.


Stephen Marsh

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

How do I record an action?

I know how to use the image size command to get a single photo to my desired size, but I have not seen any resizing options in my batch processing window?

Anthony

Something isn't right here... I normally use Dr. Brown's 123 processor; but using the Bridge CS4 tools|photoshop|image processor I took a 9.4Mb DNG file (derived from a raw CR2 file) and after running it @800 x 800 pixels, quality 10, I find I have created a 145Kb file. So it works as advertised.

There is no reason why the image processor shouldn't do exactly what the OP wants. Thus there would be no need for writing actions, etc. somebody sort of did that already

Anthony.

Rather27

Anthony wrote: »

Something isn't right here... I normally use Dr. Brown's 123 processor; but using the Bridge CS4 tools|photoshop|image processor I took a 9.4Mb DNG file (derived from a raw CR2 file) and after running it @800 x 800 pixels, quality 10, I find I have created a 145Kb file. So it works as advertised.

There is no reason why the image processor shouldn't do exactly what the OP wants. Thus there would be no need for writing actions, etc. somebody sort of did that already

Anthony.

I'm able to do this too, but once I click on the new folder with the resized jpegs and open one of them in photoshop, they still display the original Large (60mb) version of the image??

BinaryFx

Anthony wrote: »

There is no reason why the image processor shouldn't do exactly what the OP wants. Thus there would be no need for writing actions, etc. somebody sort of did that already

Anthony.

Agreed Anthony, there should be no need, yet the OP is having problems. Yes the script should do all of this and more, so it is probably down to user error. On a side note, the OP does not know how to record actions, so even though my suggestion to create an action and run it in batch mode was not the best solution, it was a solution that has highlighted an area for further study for the OP. Recording actions and running them in batch mode is a skill that is well worth learning.

On re-reading the post, the OP is not using the resize feature of Image Processor, it sounds like full resolution JPEG files are being created, then the OP is wondering why they are the same size as the originals when *decompressed/opened* back into Photoshop.

A screen shot below indicates the required fields that should be checked to alter the pixel dimensions of the dupes of the original files.


Stephen Marsh

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Anthony

Rather27 wrote: »

I'm able to do this too, but once I click on the new folder with the resized jpegs and open one of them in Photoshop, they still display the original Large (60mb) version of the image??

Just a thought: have you tried opening the jpeg in something else eg. Windows Photo Viewer or something similar? Also, what size is the file in Windows Explorer?

By the way, when I opened my sample jpeg in Photoshop, it was much larger ( a couple of Mb in my case) than the size reported in Explorer; but that is normal.

Anthony.

BinaryFx

Rather27 wrote: »

How do I record an action?

I know how to use the image size command to get a single photo to my desired size, but I have not seen any resizing options in my batch processing window?

As my last post indicated, you are likely not using the resize option in the Image Processor, you should not need to record an action. The reason that the file sizes are the same when you open is that the file is the same pixel size as the original and when opened into Photoshop it is "decompressed" - while at the OS level the file is "compressed".

There are no resizing options in the automate/batch command - which is why I demonstrated the action steps.

The Image Processor script does contain resizing options, this does work with batches of images.

Back to the subject of recording actions, more than you probably wish to know can be found here:

http://www.atncentral.com/Zip_Actions/PhotoshopActions_ver1.1Btoc.zip

And here:

http://tinyurl.com/28owwpt

And again here:

http://tinyurl.com/2a42d2n


Regards,

Stephen Marsh

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