Batch resizing of images and Image Galleries (with thumbnails)

Do you miss the batch processing features that some Windows programs had, that allowed you to select a heap of images and resize them all at one go? Are you sick of trying to do them one at a time in GIMP?

Do you need to make a quick image gallery for a web site complete with thumbnails, that has to be updated regularly?

I maintain a number of websites, and in 14 years of Internetting, I have tried all sorts of programs to achieve these two tasks easily and quickly.

One of the sites is related to yachting, and when there is a regatta on, I might have to update the image galleries several times a day. In addition, the files that are emailed to me are often 3MB, straight out of someone's camera.

If you open File Manager (Konqueror), you can select a group of (or all) the images in a folder.

Right click the group of selected images, choose Actions, then (in the recent KDE) select Resize Image... You will then have the option to choose the size you want from a huge selection, or enter a custom size.

It is best to work on a folder with COPIES if you don't have the originals on disk somewhere!

Once you have the images resized to suit what you want them for, you can now go to Tools> Create Image Gallery.

Read the options. You will have the opportunity to create copies of your originals, or to work with the originals. You can also pick the output folder for the gallery.

This will create a simple HTML page with thumbnails, a folder for your thumbnails, and link everything nicely.

For my pages, I simply cut the code out of the middle of thumbs.html, paste it into the customer's gallery page in Quanta Plus, and add names for each of the thumbnails.

Dead Easy!

Cheers,

RossD.