Resizing multiple images at 72 dpi

[chi-city]

Hello I had a question wether anyone knew of a way to resize multiple images to the following

450h x 650w at 72 dpi

I have been given the task to do this to over 200 images and am very overwhelmed at having to do this manually as im not too sure how to do it differently and more efficiently.

The program that i have is photoshop 7

Thanks for any help friends

[morea]

I believe you could create an action to do it in Photoshop.

[urstwile]

Yup. And then go to lunch. When you get back, all done!

chi, let me know if you need help figuring it out, I'm a big fan of batch processing for stuff like this.

[chi-city]

Can you guys please tell me how to do this. I would really appreciate help in setting this up.

:)

[Neuro]

Here is one that I found when I searched for how to set an action up. Hope it can get you started. I am sure Urstwile or someone else on here will assist you if you still have trouble. Good luck and if this one isn't clear there are a ton of other tutorials out there on how to do it.

Photoshop Actions (http://www.dpandi.com/actions/index.html)

Edit: I found another one specific to your question...

Batch Resizing in PS (http://photoshop911.typepad.com/questions/2005/11/help_batch_resi.html)

[urstwile]

Here's one I put together. It has to go into a couple of different posts, due to the image limit per post. Also, this action only deals with the 72 dpi part. You can add the pixel dimension stuff to the action as well.

1. Open one of the images to be resized. This image will set the stage for you to create the action that you'll perform on all of the other images you need to resize.

Making sure your Actions palette is visible, click the new action button at the bottom of the palette.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3935/step17sb.jpg

After you name the action and hit the record button, you'll see that the record button in the palette is red, meaning that everything you do from this point on will be recorded in your action.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9853/step1a5gi.jpg

2. Do the resizing stuff.

http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/892/step23sn.jpg

[urstwile]

3. When all of the stuff you want to do to the images is taken care of, go to the File menu and choose Save As... The Save As command needs to be recorded in your action. Don't worry about where you're saving the file for the moment, this is just to get the command recorded into the action.

4. After you've saved your initial file, hit the stop button in the Actions palette. Now you're ready to use the Action as a Batch processing command. You can close the initial image, since it's done being a guinea pig, thank you very much. :)

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6205/stop5wm.jpg

5. Go to the File menu, select Automate and then Batch.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/870/step42ub.jpg

[urstwile]

This will bring up a dialog box, here's where you choose the action you want to use, your source folder and your target folder. (usually, if you've just created the action, that's the one that will pop up by default)

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/8955/step5a5nl.jpg

Choose your source folder.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7940/step5b3ds.jpg

Choose your target folder (for the resized images). Make sure to check Override Action "Save As" commands.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2921/step5c5ie.jpg

Hit okay, and then you're done! It goes really fast, unless your images are really large in size, you probably won't even see them opening up in the window.