Image downscale automation

[Spork829]

So I help manage my school's cute little journalism website. Every time someone uploads photos they need to manually go in and downscale them from raw DSLR quality to 900x600, then upload then to the site. Is there a more automated and efficient way of scaling raw images down to a certain resolution so they can be uploaded to the web? Currently we're literally just hopping in PS and changing the dimensions manually for each photo, surely there's a better way.

[kirashi]

9 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

So I help manage my school's cute little journalism website. Every time someone uploads photos they need to manually go in and downscale them from raw DSLR quality to 900x600, then upload then to the site. Is there a more automated and efficient way of scaling raw images down to a certain resolution so they can be uploaded to the web? Currently we're literally just hopping in PS and changing the dimensions manually for each photo, surely there's a better way.

Yes, there is. You can either do it via the website after uploading using a script, or plugin if it's WordPress based, but that seems silly since you'll be wasting a lot of time uploading the larger files and then resizing them.

 

What we did for Yearbook at my highschool was use Photoshop's script feature to automate this process.

Goto File > Scripts > Image Processor, and follow the instructions. You can have it resize an entire folder of images.

 

Now if everyone is expected to do this themselves for each post, instead of all at once in a batch, then this still won't help.

What web platform is the site running on?

[Spork829]

1 hour ago, kirashi said:

Yes, there is. You can either do it via the website after uploading using a script, or plugin if it's WordPress based, but that seems silly since you'll be wasting a lot of time uploading the larger files and then resizing them.

 

What we did for Yearbook at my highschool was use Photoshop's script feature to automate this process.

Goto File > Scripts > Image Processor, and follow the instructions. You can have it resize an entire folder of images.

 

Now if everyone is expected to do this themselves for each post, instead of all at once in a batch, then this still won't help.

What web platform is the site running on?

Okay, I didn't know Photoshop had that capability. The site's running off of SNO. 

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, Spork829 said:

Okay, I didn't know Photoshop had that capability. The site's running off of SNO. 

Well, the more you know  Hopefully it can help in some way now that you know.

I'm not familiar with SNO, so unsure if they can auto-resize on the site or not...

[HunterAP]

I know you can write a batch script command for ffmpeg to rescale pretty much any image format and also convert it into any other image format. You can also write a Photoshop script as kirashi said.

 

I was trying to upscale pictures when I came across a program called waifu2x (dumb name, I know), but there are versions out there that allow you to resize images and even use Nvidia GPU's to accelerate the process.

[Spork829]

On 10/1/2016 at 3:56 PM, kirashi said:

What we did for Yearbook at my highschool was use Photoshop's script feature to automate this process.

Goto File > Scripts > Image Processor, and follow the instructions. You can have it resize an entire folder of images.

This worked perfectly! I exported the XML file as well so I can load the settings on everyone's computers, so all they have to do is choose the folder and it will downsize all the images. Thank you so much