Does anyone know of a program that can automatically reduce the size of a batch photo/picture to a desired size into centimetres or inches so that they can be printed out on a sheet of A4. I have tried the printers own software, Irfan, and downloaded several from the net but they only work in pixels. The nearest I can get is Open Office where you have to deal with each picture in turn and a s there are 100s it will take for ever.
2006-09-24 23:01:53 · 3 answers · asked by David Computer Guy 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
PS I would rather not have to pay for it as it is a one off project.
2006-09-24 23:08:28 · update #1
Photo-manipulations
All these free products are capable of doing what you want.
For ease of use and management of your photo files try Kodak easyshare software http://www.kodak.com
or Picasso. http://www.picasa.google.com/
Find and enjoy the pictures on your computer in seconds.
A free software download from Google.
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organised.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures – you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello™, and even post pictures on your own blog.
For advanced and fully functional photographic manipulation gimp2 is very similar to Photoshop and is available from http://www.gimp.org
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, and an image format converter.
2006-09-24 23:15:09 · answer #1 · answered by Mordak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use Adobe Photoshop..
u have to use action panel for this. the steps are:
1) put all the images that u want to reduce in a seperate folder
2) then open just one of the image in photoshop
3) Go to 'Windows' > 'Actions' > click on the last item here
4) click on the round record button at the bottom of Action window
5) now edit your picture, reduce the size or otherwise and then save the picture (note: every action is being recorded)
6) now click the stop button
7) Go to 'File' > 'Automate' > 'Batch'
8) now choose the folder in which the images are that are to be edited and the action name.
9) Hit 'OK'
There you go... a million dollar tutorial :)
2006-09-24 23:03:43 · answer #2 · answered by Caprisco 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On windows pictures and fax viewer, you right click a picture and it will re-size all the pictures in the folder for printing. You can print 2 to a sheet of A4 or loads of thumbnail size pictures. Try that just for printing. I wanted to re-size a lot of pictures to make them all the same size to put them on my website. I can't remember the name of the program - but it was freeware and I got it from snap files. I've given you a few more useful links that may help or be interesting.
2006-09-24 23:29:11 · answer #3 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this it's free http://www.irfanview.com/
You can change from pixels to centimetres to inches if needed
2006-09-24 23:14:13 · answer #4 · answered by Kangkid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/3/10/7895&pq-locale=en_GB go there & download Easyshare piece of cake to use
2006-09-24 23:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you try to use paint shop pro ?
2006-09-24 23:07:00 · answer #6 · answered by Luay14 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋