portable image resizer?
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- skel
i'm going to be traveling soon away from the comfort of programs i'm used to, like photoshop, and i'm not sure what sort of programs i should use for this situation:
- say i take some digital photos and want to post them to my site in two sizes: 70x50 thumbnail and 475x350 "fullsize"
- is there a program i can keep with me on a cd that i could just run without installing anything on the local internet cafe machine. i'd like to be able to not only resize but also do some interpolation (bicubic?) so that the resized images look as good as what photoshop does when it sizes images down?
i've heard of imagemagick but the program looks like a nightmare to figure out... and i believe it would require an install anyway... any other ideas?
- unfittoprint0
you could do an executable batch droplet in Adobe's Image Ready, but you could only use it in a computer that as that software, I guess....
- skel0
yeah i've been enjoying the batch function of photoshop here at home.. but while i'm traveling, i'd like to be able to batch resize files w/o installing anything... maybe a command line type program?
- ribit0
there is a free online service to resize images...you just upload the image, and it spits out the conversion...lots of options...
...but I don't remember the URL. :)
- ribit0
freshly googled: http://www.gifworks.com/
- ribit0
the interpolation should always be set to 'bicubic' if you want the best quality... it's not separate to the resizing..it is one of the 3 methods of resampling the pixels when resizing.
Post-resizing stuff you can do:
- unsharp mask to resharpen after any resizing
- autocontrast
- skel0
thanks ribit... looks promising, though i think it only works with gif's ?
i think i'm making some headway here with Irfanview .... this little proggie keeps surprising me with its usefulness. it has a batch mode which will resize images and i think i can just copy this to a cd and run it. doing more tests...
- ribit0
would be interested to know what works on Windows without installation and restart... If it was on a Mac, you could just take a CD with iView Media Pro or something...
- unfittoprint0
Jesus, I totally forgot what would be the best way to do this mutha...
You could do everything online, with the use of a PHP script in your website, that could resize/crop and post your image in some directory, blog or image calendar...
- skel0
doing stuff via a web-site that PHP scripts down the images might be ok for 1 image... but say i'm at the icafe and (presuem the worst) it's a dial-up connect and i want to do 10 images.
i think irf does the job though. i haven't fully tried it on a comp without installation but it seems to work fine here when i move it away from its install dir
- enobrev0
well, with PHP you require GD, and if you're going to go that route, then I DEFINTIELY reccommend ImageMagick instead.
It's faster and far more robust. You should ask your host if ImageMagick is installed, as it's been on most servers I've been on, including my current one (been using it for watermarking images).
The best part of it is how robust it is. If your savvy enough, you could crop, watermark, fiix brighntess, etc with it.
If they dont have it, they MAY be willing ot install it for you, considering its a well known and widely used prog for web devs.
You could also check out the linux library that includes the commange pnmscale. IT's a command line app that does image resizing, although I'm not too sure of the quality of the resize.
Obviously, the good of having it all done on your site is that you can upload once, manip all images remotely without being tied to any system (stop at an internet cafe, use your laptop, log in from a phone, etc).
As far as desktop resizing is concerned, Irfanview looks pretty damned good. Isn't image resziing built into WinXP now too?
- ribit0
Hey if you want your images resized to 400 pixels wide, register on http://www.cardesignnews.com and submit an automotive design portfolio :)
The submission form resizes your uploaded images to 400 pixels wide, crops to max 800 height, sharpens, and makes a little thumbnail too!
All free... but it has to include a car of some sort... :)