[Solved] Change resolution FOR digital photo frame.

Bromo · **Joined:** May 12, 2009 **Posts:** 1

I am looking for a script that will take several photos and change the resolution to 800x600 for optimal storage in my new 800x600 digital photo frame.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 9:58 pm **(#2)**

Greetings Bromo,

There is a plug-in for batch file processing in GIMP. Surf on over to David’s Batch Processor page and grab that plugin.

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DBP (David's Batch Processor) is a simple batch processing plugin for the Gimp - it allows the user to automatically perform operations (such as resize) on a collection of image files. Its main advantage is that the user does not have to learn a scripting language. Like the Gimp itself, DBP relies on a graphical interface. The user creates a list of images, and sets up the processing required for each image. The results of the current settings can be displayed. Once the required sequence of operations has been set up, DBP performs the same processing on each image in turn. The images can be colour corrected, resized, cropped, and sharpened, then renamed and saved to a different file in a specified image format. All the steps (except loading and saving the image!) are optional; so the simplest use of DBP is just to convert a number of image files from one format to another. link

Another good approach would be to use ImageMagick (download page).

It's available for Linux, Windows and MAC platforms. You can resize all images in a given folder with one simple command.

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mogrify -resize 800x600 *

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ImageMagick includes a number of command-line utilities for manipulating images. Most of you are probably accustomed to editing images one at a time with a graphical user interface (GUI) with such programs as gimp or Photoshop. However, a GUI is not always convenient. Suppose you want to process an image dynamically from a web script or you want to apply the same operations to many images or repeat a specific operation at different times to the same or different image. For these types of operations, the command-line image processing utility is appropriate. link

Those digital picture frames are way cool. I'd like to have several to place around the house.

I had an idea a few years ago to create a web connected frame that's linked to 1000s of image galleries on the web. The user could simply sign up and choose which images galleries would be displayed to each of the frames around the house. One frame could be Monet or impressionist art, one could be flowers and one could be family pictures or other personal photos ... and so on.

This will certainly happen one day, and probably soon. It's a good idea. I wish I had the venture capital to start something like that up. :mrgreen:

Anyway... Hope that helps!!