Most digital cameras nowadays, have resolutions that are far bigger than the normal monitor screen size. On average most point-and-shoot digital cameras have resolution anywhere from 3 megapixels to 10 megapixels. Most monitors these days have resolution of either 1024×768 or the slightly larger 1280×1024 pixels.
If you ever need to upload pictures online to a gallery or to a webpage, you will need to resize your images to fit the screen as well as reduce the image size. If you use Gimp, an image manipulation program, you can use David’s Batch Processor, a Gimp plugin to manage the resizing of multiple images in a single command.
To download the Batch Processor, open your Synaptic Package Manager located under System > Administration. Search for “Gimp Batch” and the result will give you “gimp-plugin-registry.” Install the package. You may need to supply the admin password to continue.
Start Gimp. Access the batch file plugin via the Xtns > Filters > Batch > Batch Process menu.
You can select a single file or multiple images for our purposes here in this article. Just click over to the Resize tab and choose resize aspect ratio or set the absolute width and height. Click Start to begin the batch process.
So, the next time you have to resize multiple images. Use the Gimp’s Batch Processor, a batch plugin that is capable of resizing multiple images in just a few clicks.
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Nice discovery. I haven’t tried it. Thanks for the info.
TYTYTYTY! This plugin and your howto saved me so much time
You’re welcome.
cheers! Great tutorial, saved me heaps of time!
Nathan, glad that worked out for you. Gimp is awesome.
Thank you!
Very useful and quck too. Saved me a lot of HDD space on my laptop.
Me, too. The batch feature is a great tool.
Who cares?
was doing a photo slideshow for my Uncles 25th marriage bDay and had to resize about 200 pics it worked like a charm, grats for the tip
Sweet. It beats doing it manually for 200 pictures.
Thanks, this was really helpful. There’s a windows version on the page you linked too, for those (like myself) stuck with them.
Hwo did you do the batch flip with gThumb? I can’t do it…
I never tried flip. I use it mostly for resizing images.
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To bad you cannot batch resize with absolute values and constrain proportions. Correct me if I’m wrong but I only saw constrain proportions with relative values as in percentages.
Resizing with absolute values never crossed my mind. I’ll check if its possible.
Hello, I read all the comments on batch resizing and I cant’ figure it out PLEASE walk me through this PLEASE!
i have windows and there is only file,edit,select,view,image,layer,colors,tools,filters,and help as options. I NEED BATCH RESIZING OPTION ANYONE!!
If you are running Gimp in Windows, you can try this plugin which allows you to batch resize and watermark images.
Worked great! Thanks for posting!
This was very helpful. Thanks heaps!
Hi Ulysses,
I’m new to GIMP and have a whole lot of images to be resized and watermarked.
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