Resizing of images in CS2

[soldave]

Originally Posted by The Prices

Yes I have cs2 - but that does not mean I am excluded from asking questions, or did I misunderstand that one??

No no - it doesn't exclude you from asking questions on resizing photos. Didn't mean to sound high & mighty there - I only got CS2 as part of a work project I was working on, and certainly don't know all the ins and outs of it. For all I know, you might be a computer artist who's just new to the program - so I apologise if I caused you offence for that.

I also recall a couple of years ago there being a program called Acdsee which could do simple photo resizing and resampling for you. That's going back a while but it was pretty effective with what it did.

[rickles23]

I found that if I need to know something about Photoshop I go to:

planetphotoshop.com - Effects tutorials

I have learnt some new ways of doing effects to photos.....

[Steve Sub]

Originally Posted by rickles23

I found that if I need to know something about Photoshop I go to:

planetphotoshop.com - Effects tutorials

I have learnt some new ways of doing effects to photos.....

Or try The Grand Master of Photoshop Wizards, Russell Brown. His style is, er, eccentric, but stick with it, it's worth it!
Steve

[Norseman]

There is an easy way to do resizing of a bulk of images after you're done working with them. Here's what (from memory, don't have the programme here):

1. Open the Photoshop browser Adobe Bridge in the right top corner (IIRC A file icon with a magnifying glass?)
2. While in Bridge open the picture folder and select the images you want reduced. Press CTRL while clicking to select several separate images.
3. Go to file menu (IIRC 3. row from left, I'll find this when I get home) and Photoshop>Image Processing
4. Select the folder in which you wish to place new and reduced images. The program will make a new folder here simply called "JPEG".
5. Select size of images. 800 or 900 width will do nicely.
6. Select quality, 70% will give you images around 80-90kb. I find this feature compresses pictures quite heavily, more than what you'd get by chosing 70% while using "save for web" in CS2.
7. Finish it off by pressing the uh... shaded button. The pictures will be opened in CS2 and processed while you're watching.

This has saved me lots of work lately. Of course you can add an action, like a Copyright Name at the bottom, and whoom, you're done.

Kyrre

[Pen Simon]

Originally Posted by soldave

I also recall a couple of years ago there being a program called Acdsee which could do simple photo resizing and resampling for you. That's going back a while but it was pretty effective with what it did.

We use the Pro version for handling thumbnails - its up to version 8 at the moment - we use this to batch convert images for the web as we sometimes have around 2000 thumbnails to add to a webpage for people to preview.

It does not show NEF files (Nikon uncompressed file format, similar to RAW) as light as they are in CS2 which is another tool we use for printing and grading images.

ACDSEE Pro does have a nice way of letting you add a rating note to an image from 1 to 5 which is good if you want to quickly rate a batch of images.

ACD Systems