Who here is handy with batch image resizing?

[Luke 36997]

We need a folder of images resized. thanks.

[Logos302 86]

if it's one time thing http://www.irfanview.com/will do batch conventions for you.  but if it's a more on the fly type thing Windows Powershell can also do it.  

[Luke 36997]

already got help, thanks

[Marc_G 92]

For future reference investigat FastStone photo resizer. Free and I use it all the time.

[Cerothen 89]

Also another free and handy one is

 

https://imageresizer.codeplex.com

[ZacharyS 0]

Photoshop software remain the best for batch image re-sizing. This tutorial http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/photoshop/mass_resize/ will help you for understanding step by step guide for it.

[Nologic 30]

@ Luke  -

 

I'm puzzled you gave me an At-A-Boy just three days prior for a script I wrote to do image scaling...granted it was only for scaling down and not up.

 

Something fancier could be done with ImageMagick or a combination of AviSynth & FFMpeg.

[Heckler 147]

I use a free program called fotosizer... just point it at what you want and specify the output and it will adjust as required.

 

I did this after I discovered that emby was storing thousands of vastly oversized images that accounted for GB of data... images that were grabbed at silly resolutions and large filesizes when all it was used for was generating a small thumbnail. I resized everything to a standard size (backdrops to 1920x1080, posters to 1000x1500, and constans for thumbs, people and so forth. I run this every now and again to correct recent stuff that's been added.

 

It might be a good idea to add an option within the server to specify image sizes... you can already specify backdrops must be no less than a certain size (I set it to 1920 obviously)... but this can simply lead to larger images being downloaded instead as there's no option to restrict it from doing so.