Tip of the Week - Resize Multiple Photos at One Time with Photosop

Someone called recently and asked how to take a large number of photos and resize them without having to open each individual photo. Here's how:

1.    Once you have Photoshop opened, click on File > Scripts > Image Processor.

2.    In the Image Processor window, select the folder your images are in by clicking Select Folder

3.    You can save in the current folder, or choose a different folder. If you save in the current folder, it will create a new folder inside it called JPEG and put the processed images there. It will not overwrite your original images.

4.    File Type – If you are saving for the web,  JPEG is your best bet with a quality of 10. Your photos will be reduced in file size but the quality will remain good. You may want to create two different folders with two different file types (i.e. Tiff for print and JPEG for web). 

5.    If you want to resize your images, which I recommend for posting them online, select Resize to Fit and enter the dimensions you want. Note: you need to keep the aspect ratio of your images. Make sure your original images are the same dimensions (they should be if they’re from the same camera) and divide the height and width separately by the same number to keep the ratio. For example, a 2400px by 1200px image would be resized to 1200px by 600px to keep the aspect ratio. 

6.    Click Run and Photoshop will start processing your images. Wait for it to finish, then you can close it.

Try it out. You will love how it does the work for you!