Picture Editing Program or something similar?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:14 am

Guys, I need a program that can group .bmp files or other picture files and convert them into .jpeg or .jpg, without having to change them one by one.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:23 am

Assuming that youre not wanting all stitched together in one large file, ImageMagick has a batch convert ability if you use batch files. I pulled this example from their forums:

FOR /F "delims=." %%k IN ('dir /b .\*.tif') DO (
"c:\program files\ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q8\convert" -resize 600x800 %%k.tif %%k.jpg
rem del %%k.tif
)

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:18 pm

Irfanview has a handy batch converter.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:58 pm

Paint Shop Pro has a batch converter, but...

blackmyst wrote:Irfanview has a handy batch converter.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:45 pm

Thanks guys, going to try IrfanView.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:51 am

Irfanview's JPEG converter kind of sucks. It's pretty poor quality compared to the one in ACDSee and Photoshop (even at 100% with chroma subsampling off), but I don't really know of any free alternatives to irfanview.

But for most purposes, it's probably fine.