If you haven’t already install The Optional Gimp Extentions. Go to Synaptic Package Manager and Search for “Gimp Batch” and select and install “gimp-plugin-registry”.
After you have all of you images from you digital camera onto your computer, and sorted through them and picked the ones you want to resize for the web go ahead and make a “ForResize” folder and put a copy of those images in that folder.
Also go ahead and make another empty folder called “Resized” where we can put the resized images.
Next start the Gimp.
Click on the Xtns menu and then select “Batch Process…”
After “David’s Batch Processor” is launch, click on the “Add Files” button
Navigate to your “ForResize” Folder and then select all of the images for resize in that folder
Click “Open”
Now select the “Resize” tab
Check the box next to “Enable”
In the “Relative” section,
Go ahead and make the XScale and YScale 0.20 (this means 20% of the original size, for me this makes my images from the camera about 400×600)
Next Select the “Rename” tab
Then click the “Select Dir” button
Navigate to your “Resized” directory and then click “OK”
Now click on the “Output” tab and select “JPG” from the Format drop down menu. All of the default settings should be fine for web optimization so you will not need to change anything.
Now we are ready to start so click the “Start” button
You will see it process each file. When it has finished by indicating with “-done-” go ahead and check on the files that were created in your “Resized” folders.
You should see all of your resized images there.
Wow, that was alot more intuitive than the Adobe Photoshop way of batch resizing images.
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Written By Dan Walk
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