Batch processing JPG

I have been taking a lot of photos with my 3.2 megapixel camera. I usually take them at the highest quality setting since I intend to print or archive them.

I need a method to batch process photos and change the quality and/or size to cut down the file size for web-posting or e-mailing to bandwidth-challenged friends and family.

I have Corel Draw 7 (with Photo Paint 7) and a half dozen other low-end photo programs. Does anyone know of any cheap programs or shareware/freeware utilities with a feature for this? Does Photo-Paint have this feature and I just haven't found it?

gimp has a batch mode, but I'm not familiar with how it works.

You might also check out Photoshop Elements. I don't know if they're still doing it with version 2, but with version 1 you could download a time-limited demo from the Adobe web site. It definitely has this feature.

Originally posted by SteveDallas
gimp has a batch mode, but I'm not familiar with how it works.

It basically works by running a Script-Fu script from the command line. Script-Fu is basically Lisp

More info
<a href"http://adrian.gimp.org/batch/batch.html">here</a>

Originally posted by MaggieL

It basically works by running a Script-Fu script from the command line. Script-Fu is basically Lisp

More info
<a href="http://adrian.gimp.org/batch/batch.html">here</a>

I'm sure this is what she meant to say.

Irfanview has a batch processing feature. But I just checked and I don't see resizing as a batch option. Hmm.

Here we go...

http://www.netoffices.com/articles/imaging/batchresize.htm

Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week!

Ahhh! See, I can lead a horse to water, but I can't tell you what the heck water is.

Originally posted by That Guy

I'm sure this is what she meant to say.

Ah, thank you. Must have grabbed the wrong URL. Another tabbed browsing casualty.