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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: marcmccalmont on June 03, 2010, 06:06:41 am
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Do you know of a good utility to batch Tiff's to Jpeg's?
Thanks
Marc
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Do you know of a good utility to batch Tiff's to Jpeg's?
Thanks
Marc
I just created an action in PS.
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Or use the image processor in Photoshop
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Or do it from Lightroom.
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Do you know of a good utility to batch Tiff's to Jpeg's?
Thanks
Marc
I haven't much used Lightroom or PS to convert TIFFs to JPEG format. First case: just lack of experience. Second case: I've always disliked Photoshop's save-for-web UI. I spent a long time looking for but not finding good save-for-web tools. I'd hoped I could find a command-line tool and even tried to roll my own in a Perl script that runs ImageMagick and ExifTool. (But ImageMagick is a mysterious creature and the script doesn't always do a good job.)
For a while I had been using the excellent program Photo Mechanic for sorting/organizing large numbers of images. Eventually I realized that its own save-as-JPEG feature was almost ideal for my purposes: a simple and very clear user interface, quick batch saves, options to convert to sRGB and to pick the 'quality' of the saved image, and an option to sharpen. Several tools I'd tried up to that point tended to save as JPEG with an obvious loss of color, apparently due to how they were doing the conversion to sRGB. So far, this has not been a problem with Photo Mechanic. (It often overdoes the sharpening, though -- the sharpening is not yet adjustable.)
PM has a big feature set for reading images from a memory card (including RAW and with an optional "RAW+JPEG" display mode), sorting and organizing images, working with IPTC data. It has the most sensibly designed and "clean" user interface I've ever seen in a photo tool. It generates image previews faster than any other tool I've used. PM would be overkill if all you need is a convert-to-JPEG feature but if you can use its many other features it's worth checking out -- 20-day-demo version available at www.camerabits.com. (I have no connection with the company other than being a satisfied user.)
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Do you know of a good utility to batch Tiff's to Jpeg's?
Thanks
Marc
How about the freely available and powerful ImageMagick set of tools?
Joofa
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The Image Processor in Photoshop works just fine
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You can certainly us PS, I do some of the time, but for quick easy great results I use VSO Image Resizer http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/ (http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/)
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You can certainly us PS, I do some of the time, but for quick easy great results I use VSO Image Resizer http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/ (http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/)
This looks like what I'm looking for!
Thanks
Marc
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The Image Processor in Photoshop works just fine
Learn something new every day! I didn't know this existed
Thanks
Marc
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Irfanview has a batch processor and it doesn't cost anything
http://www.irfanview.com/ (http://www.irfanview.com/)
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Irfanview has a batch processor and it doesn't cost anything
http://www.irfanview.com/ (http://www.irfanview.com/)
I use Faststone Viewer, which also is free. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm) I prefered it to irfanview when I compared them, but that was some time ago, and YMMV anyway.
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Better yet, use Dr RussellBrown's image processor :-)
Henrik
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There's also GraphicConverter from Lemkesoft. Haven't used it in awhile, but it's quick, easy, and converts just about any file type to any other. One of those tools that you're always thankful to have when you need it, and a handy post app for quickies. Does quite a bit actually.
Mac only.