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April 6th, 2008 by WordPlopDigital cameras take pictures in huge resolutions. If you’re going to email your photos, post them in forums, or do things like that, you should resize your images so they’re not huge. This also makes them anywhere from 30% – 80% smaller in file size, so it will be much faster uploading them. It will also be easier for people to download them if they have slower internet connections. This short tutorial will show you how to resize multiple images in Adobe Photoshop with a few clicks. I’m using Photoshop CS3 for this tutorial.
- Once you have Photoshop opened, click on File > Scripts > Image Processor… (click here for a screenshot)
- In the Image Processor window, select the folder your images are in by clicking Select Folder… (click here for a screenshot)
- 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.
- File Type – I recommend saving as JPEG with a quality of 10. Your photos will be reduced in file size noticeably and will remain good quality.
- 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. My photos are originally 2592 x 1944, so I resize them to 1296 x 972. This is half of the original size, keeping the aspect ratio.
- Click Run and Photoshop will start processing your images. Wait for it to finish, then you can close it.
And that’s all. Now you can resize thousands of images with a few clicks.
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20 Responses to “How to resize multiple images in Photoshop”
thanks. worked great.
Thanks. It will benefit my current work.
thanks a bunch
thanx bro..
Great job. A million thanks. Now I am about to make changes on 15,300 images. Good luck to me.
Any idea if you can resize by just choosing a width or height? I have a load of images where I just want to specify the width as they are different heights and I don’t want to distort them.
@ Dave R:
I see what you’re saying and I don’t know. You can try entering percentage values, or just entering a value for the width and leaving the height blank. I don’t know if it’ll work but you can try.
Hi, my boss is always not satisfied with the picture size for 2 or 3 time and there are more then 1000 pictures. Now i have no problem even if he will not agree with 200 times
Thanks alot I love you.
omg this will make editing my stop motion amazingly easier
Fantastic tip!! I have been using photoshop for almost 10 years and I never knew about this feature. I was faced with the dreaded task of manually resizing over 1500 photographs for an animated music video. This tutorial has saved me so much time. The video will be complete shortly before Christmas 2009. Be sure to check it out by visiting my website! Thank you!
Hi. I was so excited to read this tip and it seemed to be working fine. BUT. Problem is that when I specify the new size – e.g 127w x 127h for some reason it resizes them all to 128 x 127???? I tried putting 126 x 127 to see if that would even it up to 127 x 127 but it then did exactly 126 x 127!!! All of my original images are the same height width ratio to begin with. Is there a problem doin even hight width ratios?
Thanks
@ Vanessa:
I have never had this problem and don’t know why it would do that, sorry. :/
The only thing I can think of is it’s trying to keep the aspect ratio, and even though you’re saying it’s the same ratio, maybe it’s rounding the decimal (when changing a 500px image (for example) to a 127px image, it’s a 3.93 ratio. But then when you do 127 x 3.93, it equals 499.11px, not 500. See what I mean?
Thanks~!
Thanks a lot …
THANK YOU!!! When I take a billion pictures a day, the last thing I want to do is manually resize all of them!!! This really cut down my process by a mile!
is there a way to do this where you can also change the resolution of the files. i want to resize from 4752 x 3168 to 1800 x 1200 … but i want the resolution to be 300 dpi not 72 dpi. can it be done ?! i’ve tried fireworks and bridge also … i don’t know how to do it. can you help ?! thank you.
@Adrian:
There’s no way that I know about. Although why would it change the resolution by itself? Or are you trying to up-convert from 72 to 300? I don’t know if that’s possible.
Hi,
Million thanks for the tips. it awesome.
by the way is there any way to MAINTAIN the same image resolution and DIMENSION (say 4000 x 3000) after resizing the image (say from 8mb to 2 mb).
thanks for all the tips
thx alot!!!!!!
thanx dear it saves my valuable time….