A photo program that does these functions in batch mode?

I download hundreds of photos from my digital camera into my PC/Windows and
I need to do the following in batch mode.

1- Some photos need to be rotated 90" left. I want to display all the
photos from a folder in a browse or photo album mode and multiselect the
ones that need to be rotated and tell it to rotate and save each one in
batch mode.

2- Same thing as 1 but rotate 90 right.

3- Once all look straight, I need to resize all the images.


Is there any photo program for Windows so can do what I need in *batch
mode*?

 

I use XnView. Open XnView in browser mode, select the files to be modified,
right click one of them and select "Batch convert". Hit the "Advanced
operations" and select the modifications to be performed (Rotation and/or
Resize) and hit the arrow button to add it to the sequence and select it on
the right to change the parameters. You can even save the operations as a
script for future use. Hope this helps.

Patrick

 

ACDsee

 

The mogrify command of ImageMagick is incredibly powerful for batch image
processing of just about anything you can imagine doing with images. It is
for the Linux OS, but you could boot a bootable version of Linux such as
Knoppix (free download at knoppix.org) and the run mogrify on your images
files on your MS-Windows hard disk.
http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/manuals/ImageMagick/www/mogrify.html

 

Right, the batch conversion of XnView can be used for this.

Perhaps an even simpler way for the "90 degree orientation" problem using
XnView:
XnView supports the EXIF orientation flag. If the camera has an orientation
sensor and writes the orientation into the JPG file, XnView will rotate the
image accordingly when viewing. Making this rotation permant (for other
graphic programs) is also possible (Tools > JPG lossless transformation >
Rotate image based on EXIF value).

Greetings,

Helmut

 

Picasa
http://picasa.com

Select photos, Ctrl-R to rotate right, Ctrl-Shift-R left. Click Export
and enter in the size and save directory, click OK.

 

www.irfanview.com

If you're working with JPGs and your camera has an orientation sensor,
thus using the EXIF orientation flag, it will also auto-rotate images
shot with the camera in portrait position.



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ImageMagick is also available for Windows, to write scripts with it you'll
need something like a Linux shell, for example from Cygwin.
Yesterday I needed to convert a bunch of 'bmp' images, I did that with
ImageMagick's 'convert' and the following tiny csh-shell script:

count=0
ls $1*.bmp| while read rootName
do
echo "converting $rootName to $1$count.tif"
convert $rootName $1$count.tif
count=`expr $count + 1`
done

-- Hans

 

Irfanview will do that. Free too.

 

1- Some photos need to be rotated 90" left. I want to display all the
Not sure what you mean by "batch mode" in this context. If you just mean it
does them all on one command, and assuming we are talking about jpeg images
here, then feel free to download my (free) PhotoMan application from
http://homepages.tesco.net/~Keith.Sheppard/photoman/home.htm.

In PhotoMan, open the folder holding down the Ctrl key, click on each photo
which needs rotating. Right click on any of the selected frames then choose
from the menu:

Selected Files
Rotate
Clockwise

(or anticlockwise if that's what you want). PhotoMan will then do lossless
jpeg rotations of all the selected files. This runs as a background
process. The rotations are in-situ, meaning they overwrite the original
files but as it's lossless, that's no great loss (groan).

Keith

 

HvdV wrote:
...

....

Not sure why you need scripts, it should be possible simply using the
command line options. Very powerful tool. Yeah I forgot about Windows users
and that they can use Cygwin to run a 'sort of' version of Linux within
Windows.

 

Windows users may not need Cygwin to access the powerful scripting
functions of Windows. What was once a "DOS prompt" has become, with
Windows NT, 2000 and XP a very powerful language and, if that isn't enough
for you, the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) provides a Basic-like language
accessible from the command prompt.

Unfortunately, command-line is currently out of fashion, so information is
a little harder to find. Typing HELP at a command prompt will list some
of the available commands. The WSH is described here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/scriptinga.asp

David

 

I meant by batch mode as in doing it all in one command in the GUI. I
really do not want to this using scripts or going to the command prompt.
As easy as possible is what I want. Think of your grand mother trying to do
this.

 

John Dalberg wrote:
...

yeah I understand. But a GUI with menu options can almost be as complicated
as command line for some. For example, you could use mogrify command in a
commline line (terminal) mode as follows
mogrify -format .jpg *.tif -quality 90
to convert all TIFF images in the current folder (directory) to JPEG images,
with 90% quality (10% compression).

Or you could do
mogrify -shave 5x5 *.jpg
to remove 5 pixels from the image edges of all jpeg images in current
folder; useful for example to give shaved images to someone or have shabved
images printed and keeping the original unshaved images for copyright proof
purposes.

The mogrify command is not too hard, really, and there are example usage
guides that show and explain every option with examples. But I am a geek so
of course I am biased to the power of the command line over graphical
interfaces.

 

David J Taylor wrote:
....

Only with Windows users. Linux users LOVE the command line! (in addition to
the GUI). I could not live without it-- so useful: batch mode commands to
operate on hundreds of files, displays debug info when running certain
apps, faster than finding applications in menus and submenus, easy on the
eyes, etc.
http://linux.sparlo.net

 

Yes, I was talking about Windows - I though that was clear. I suspect
that the Windows command line is similar in its power to other OSes, it
just isn't used as much.

David

 

David J Taylor wrote:
...>

...

Actually the Windows command line is pretty weak compared to Linux/Unix; for
example, with *nix OS there is 'bash completion' so that pressing the tab
key completes the desired filename or pathname, and also with *nix you can
add on a '&' to the end of the command to make it run in background mode as
a process task; *nix allows 'piping' of commands to other commands, and
lots more.

Windows is a fine operating system, more user-friendly than *nix (but that
gap is rapidly narrowing each year-- and entire countries and cities around
the globe are dumping Microsoft and switching to Linux-- China, Brazil,
Munich, Venice, Paris, US Military, etc.); but *nix simply is more powerful
as regards mulitasking, command line usage, networking, and GUI stability
(since the GUI in *nix is not part of the operating system whereas with
Windows if the OS freezes so does the GUI which is an integral part of the
OS). *nix was designed in the 1960s from the ground up for mulituser,
multitasking, and networking; MS-Windows was designed in the 1980s and was
never originally intended for multiuser, multitasking, or networking.

 

I'm using command-line here in the sense of scripting language. Actually,
you can run processes in background in Windows with the "start" command,
and there is some command completion (it's optional). But what I'm really
talking about is the ability to run a set of commands from a script,
perhaps on a scheduled basis.

Your information about Windows appears to be based on Windows 3.1 or 9X.
The current versions (and the previous NT-based versions) were designed
from the start for multi-user, multi-tasking and networking. This work
was done in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was able to build on the
best from the other OSes of the time.

[If the OS freezes, be it Windows or UNIX, you are stuck wherever the GUI
is located. On my own systems, running 24 x 7 Windows NT, 2000 and XP,
the number of crashes is now of the order of once per year.].

David

 

For example to renumber, call some more tools, build a little GUI (replace
bash with wish) for the grandmother-type user, run it from a web server, and
so on
But indeed the result of 'man mogrify' is impressive, thanks for pointing out.

-- Hans

 

To write true grandmother-proof software requires *many* more lines than the
just 1 mogrify line.
If you can get through the manual of your camera and remember how to access
all the settings and modes then it should be doable to type something like
'mogrify -rotate 90 *.tif'. Why not give it a try?

It might not only be the command line itself, but the idea of navigating
through a filesystem with arcane commands like 'cd' and 'ls'. You need some
sort of mental picture of the filesystem to be able to do that efficiently
with a command line. IMO on Windows the cluttered layout of the filesystem
doesn't help either, but that is probably a biased opinion too.

-- Hans