[TheForge] OT Question on Photo-Display Software

[Dick Snow]

At 08:35 AM 8/7/2006, you wrote:

>Somehow I've managed to get stuck with writing up my second article in a
>couple months on a blacksmithing-related event.  The writing is no
>problem. But it seems there's always someone around with a digital
>camera snapping pictures.  I used to be able to handle pictures, but now
>the damned things are about 2 MB apiece! and It is not only exceedingly
>slow to load each one (5-10  sec each, maybe) but I can't display more
>than a few at a time.  What this means is that I can't "riffle through
>the stack" of photos and pick out those I want to use.  This may sound
>trivial, but it's a real headache.
>
>I think the best "fix" would be some software that would pick up a
>directory of photos (.jpg) and reduce each one to no more than web-page
>quality.  (I don't NEED to see the reflection of the photographer off my
>bald head!)  Once this small, software I have would handle a lot of
>them, pretty easily.
>
>I could make this conversion one-by-one.  What I was wondering is
>whether there's any software that could do it automatically?  Or,
>perhaps, there's a better way that I haven't thougth about.  Suggestions
>welcome.
>
>As it stands, I'm likely to submit an article completely without photos
>because my life is too short to deal with the frustration of handling
>these enormous photos.

Get Irfanview.
www.irfanview.com

Its a small, fast picture viewer with a good thumbnail option, basic 
editing capabilities, and a batch file converter. I have not used the 
batch converter but I think it will do what you want. Did I mention 
ITS FREE? One of the best picture viewers available.

Dick M. Snow (Dick.Snow at POBox.com)
Datalytics, Incorporated
Efland, NC