Hey, I was wondering...

My digital camera, in lowest quality mode, takes rather large pictures (Averages 330KB per image).
Does anyone know of a program where I just drag my images onto it's icon, and it recompresses it into a smaller version? (Smaller filesize-wise, not dimension-wise) I'd like as little dialogs as possible (Maybe just an option for compression level)...

Know of any?

try XP Power Toys image resizer, or open the image in MS Paint and save it again as something else with the same file extention OR use photoshop or paint shop pro and change the compression amount and save it.

I don't know of any, But doesn't your DC have built in compression, I just had a look at mine and I have 5 MP and 1 MP then for each of those I have 3 different compression settings low, medium and high. I am sure you have checked out your camera but thought maybe you missed this setting, or maybe it does not have it, just a thought.

Doesn't have it.

Could you make a recompressing script for Photoshop?

he's right. look into making droplets in photoshop. they're basically macros. but it compiles an executable that you can drag files onto and it's basically entirely automated.

i made one to convert my didigcam's RAW files to TIFF.

Ok. I reinstall Windows often, is there any way to save the macros for later use ?

If its not alot of images you can use Acdsee to save them with lower quality thats if you wanna keep the format and decrease the size.

After camping, it can easily be over 100 images =/

yes, as i said it generates an executable file. just back it up. you can put that anywhere on your machine.

just look at droplets. all will become clear. trust me, it's what you need.

http://www.digitalmediadesigner.com/articl...le.jsp?id=27784

i think that's the guide i've used. follow that as a skeleton and you should be golden.

Ooh, hope it works in Photoshop 6.0...
I'll report the results... repetoire


Hmm, The "actions" does stuff.. but the droplet doesn't do anything