Could do with some help - uploading and resizing images!

[tjobbe]

hey everyone,

My Dad is getting a Web design firm - who haven't been that helpful - to develop him a Actinic cart with a specific design.

The design is more or less complete and his staff have been adding the required photos and products, but this is taking them quite some time.

According to my Dad, they are having to resize each product image a handful of times for the various uses, and for 500 / 1000+ products this is going to take months.

Is there anyway that Actinic can just accept one image and resize it for each required size on the fly?

Are there any plugins / addons that can do this? Can something be made?

i would be very greatfull if you have information whether it is a paid-for solution or an off the shelf, or even an actinic setting, to get in touch!

Thanks,

Tjobbe

[OriginalTouch]

See this thread::::

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=34654

[NormanRouxel]

I wrote that. You could amend it to automatically create several sizes (a product one, a popup big one, a small thumbnail one).

Or you could use a freeweare progmen like Irfanview - www.irfanview.net - to batch resize all your originals, again making one set for products, popups and thumbnails. It can rename the resulting image and put the results into different folders if required.

[tjobbe]

I wrote that. You could amend it to automatically create several sizes (a product one, a popup big one, a small thumbnail one).

Or you could use a freeweare progmen like Irfanview - www.irfanview.net - to batch resize all your originals, again making one set for products, popups and thumbnails. It can rename the resulting image and put the results into different folders if required.

Thanks for the reply,

In your opinion, what do you think is the best solution?

The people who will be doing this have no web design knowledge at all, but a relatively good understanding of the internet.

How easy is it so that your script resizes the images for all the required sizes upon uploading of a single photo (I've hardly looked at it yet, sorry)?

Thanks!

[OriginalTouch]

I wrote that.

Yes I should have given you credit here Norman as it is a fantastic piece of script that I use every day. One image per product is made into a thumbnail automatically. Just need to make sure that you choose a standard image in the layout and then SAVE it then so that the script works. Do not choose a thumbnail layout on save. Change to that later.

Easy as pie to use - no thinking required.

Added: But you will need to be able to use Actinic well.
The other piece of software is independent of Actinic, so it depends which they are happier using?

[NormanRouxel]

is it so that your script resizes the images for all the required sizes

You've not said how many and what sizes you require.

[Duncan Rounding]

....a Web design firm...they are having to resize each product image a handful of times for the various uses, and for 500 / 1000+ products this is going to take months....

I'm surprised that the design firm are not able to batch change the images unless of course the images need intelligent cropping. If they are just resizing it would only takes a very short time to resize 1000 images using a batching program, of which there are tons freely available.

[RuralWeb]

not able to batch change the images

Agreed - it should take a matter of minutes to process them

[mycomputerbits]

I use FastStone Photo Resizer. It batch converts different file types and sizes quickly and easily. It's shareware but it's brilliant. Find it here http://www.faststone.org/

[Kultya]

I use a fantastic system called Arles from www.digitaldutch.com .

I have ACD See and Corel too but Arles is by far the simplest. I can load 100 photos of any size, even different sizes and a combination of portrait and landscape. I have a special Actinic file stored so at a single key stroke it will do all those images, duplicate them to the required thumbnail size and give them a unique filename, put whatever border and watermark setting I have for them and or text. It takes about 90 seconds to do 100 images and drops them all straight into my Actinic folder ready to upload.

Its a web page maker really but you don't have to use that function although that can be quite useful too if you wish to provide a link from your product listing to further close up pictures etc such as my page here http://www.kultya.com/albums/13oct07/ , that was all done in Arles. Here you can see how I've done portrait and landscape in the same batch and it has not affected the product information alongside it, plus a subtle grey border around the items. http://www.kultya.com/acatalog/Incen...s___Cones.html

I mask all the images in Corel Paint Shop Pro.

I think Arles is about £25 online unless you know somewhere else you can get it of course!

Cheers
Malc