bulk resizing images

I needed to shrink a whole bunch of images the other day so I tried bulk resize photos.

I love it.  

I tell my camera to take the largest photos possible.  Which means one photo crashes my friend's email server for being too big.

It's also great for posting photos to permies.com.  I set the image to 25% of the original and it seems to be a perfect size.  The image still looks awesome but it uploads so quickly now and the page is faster to load too.

Using this right now for the next photos in this exciting thread https://permies.com/t/121242

That is useful to have a web tool available to resize photos.
For everyday use I would rather have a computer with software that doesn't require an internet connection. On Windows there is the free program Faststone Image Viewer, which also can bulk rename and do the best fast full screen sorting of any program I've found.

That sounds fantastic!  Thanks for the tip!

I use Pixresizer. Have done years.

I'm pretty sure many people have trouble uploading images to permies in a quick and robust way. At least I know I have had trouble, and have helped quite a few other users who were having trouble.

One of my personal challenges was the fact that my phone stores photos in really high resolution with giant file sizes sometimes 7mb each. So if I'm uploading files it takes forever to finish, and especially on my phone often fails before it finishes.

I found three very useful tools for making this faster without manually editing the image size of dozens of photos.

On Linux ImageMagick is perfect. I used to use it all the time for bulk actions like resizing 100 photos when I used Linux. It has command line options, which make me happy because I'm a CLI dork.

For Android I recently found Photo Compressor, it does the job well and quickly and it's not too bloated with ads and hopefully doesn't have spyware.

For Windows I just found a windows tool called PowerToys which has a great right-click resize option. This PowerToys software is my new favorite thing. It can do all sorts of other useful things that I was pining for on Windows.

Anyway, those are three options for three common platforms that might help you get your images up on Permies with less hassle, hopefully making Permies an even better place to spend your time.

L. Johnson wrote:
On Linux ImageMagick is perfect. I used to use it all the time for bulk actions like resizing 100 photos when I used Linux. It has command line options, which make me happy because I'm a CLI dork.

For those of us mortals who (mostly) stay in the GUI (Graphical User Interface) Gwenview has a 'Batch Processing' plugin that will resize multiple images at once. All will have the same end result, ie 640 X 640 at 80% but can differ starting out. No Windows version but should available on most Linux distros.