Resize a folder of photos to same size

sam49

Senior Member
Hi guys not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question so please move if its not in the right place

My question is I have bought a large photo frame that can hold 24 separate photos. and I want to fill it with photos of the grand kids, some are portrait and some landscape but are all 6X4 or 150mm X 100mm

The problem I have is the photos I want to use come from several different sources, some are scans some are from a DSLR and some from a compact digital camera

When I try and print them to 6X4 I find it almost impossible to get the same size print, some have bits cropped off and some have borders so is there a away I can resize them so they all print out the same size please
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
The good news is that 6x4 is the standard ratio for everything coming out of your camera. The bad news is that if you have pre-cropped shots then you'll need to crop further (or uncrop) to get them to fit.

What software are you using? There are ways of getting them all to print without significant manual intervention, but you are allowing the printer to decide where to crop when necessary (i.e. choose Expand To Fill Frame, or some similar option on print). The best way is to do them one at a time, cropping as necessary and then printing or saving.
 

carguy

Senior Member
If you have photoshop, you can write a quick macro/script to resize a batch of images at once. The catch is, they all need to be the same orientation (portrait or landscape). One orientation per batch to edit at once.
 

sam49

Senior Member
The good news is that 6x4 is the standard ratio for everything coming out of your camera. The bad news is that if you have pre-cropped shots then you'll need to crop further (or uncrop) to get them to fit.

What software are you using? There are ways of getting them all to print without significant manual intervention, but you are allowing the printer to decide where to crop when necessary (i.e. choose Expand To Fill Frame, or some similar option on print). The best way is to do them one at a time, cropping as necessary and then printing or saving.

I thanks for the info I have photoshop elements 11 and lightroom 5. I don't mind doing them one at a time that's not a problem. but I just am not able to get them all to print the same size
 

sam49

Senior Member
If you have photoshop, you can write a quick macro/script to resize a batch of images at once. The catch is, they all need to be the same orientation (portrait or landscape). One orientation per batch to edit at once.

Hi writing a macro script is well above my comfort level, but thanks for the tip
 

carguy

Senior Member
It isn't at technical as you might think. In Photoshop you can have it 'record' clicks/steps you take in a workflow. You can assign those recorded steps a name.

Then, you can execute those recorded steps at will. If that makes sense?
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
There's a free photo editing application called IRFanview that makes batch conversion/renaming a snap (I recently resized 1800+ photos in a couple minutes using it).

IRFanview download (via CNET)
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
I thanks for the info I have photoshop elements 11 and lightroom 5. I don't mind doing them one at a time that's not a problem. but I just am not able to get them all to print the same size

Hope this helps - saved me typing.


Follow the steps and they should all be printable at 4x6 with no issue.
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
I think you could open them all in lightroom and then use the crop tool set to the 6x4 or 4x6 format just to make certain that you get what you want and then export them with a pre-definite settings to get just the right definition for the size of prints that you want. It should be a fairly fast process unless you have hundred of prints to crop. The cropping will take the most time.
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
What I would do is... Import that batch into Lightroom...then select each one, and in the Develop module, you can use the crop tool, and select the image size/aspect ratio... One of the drop downs is for 4X6... simply selecting the 4X6 option will apply it to the selected image... you can crop adjust the image to fit the 4X6 frame that's displayed...

Move thru the images one at a time doing the above...

Select all of the images... and using the Export tool, you can define the images to export as Jpgs... with a size of 4X6, and whatever resolution you want... Hit Export, and the entire batch will exported as 4X6 JPGs... You may have to do this in two batches... 1 batch for 4X6, and one batch for 6X4 selecting the correct orientation for your your images...
 
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