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182411 2003-10-11 22:43:00 Hi. I a folder of screen shots taken from a game that saves the screenshots as BMP. I how can I get Photoshop 7 to automatically change all the pictures to JPG format? James Busby (341)
182412 2003-10-12 04:01:00 Dunno about Paint Shop. Photo explorer will do it. dedfred (3113)
182413 2003-10-12 04:12:00 You need to go thru the process of saving one in the format desired then save it as action,then apply it to all your files.

Look in the photoshop help file or on the net for detailed instructions.

Google is your friend
metla (154)
182414 2003-10-12 04:16:00 Are you using XP James?

There is a nifty trick that you can use to convert a batch of images all to jpg (and to specify the image size 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 in addition if you wish) .

Here is a copy and paste of the instructions from the "Windows XP Inside Out book" . It is for compressing images ready for websites, but you can use the same principles:


Compressing Batches of Image Files
Windows XP doesn’t include any batch conversion tools to help you manage image files, but you can accomplish the same goal indirectly, by running images through the wizard used to shrink them for e-mail . If you’re getting ready to upload a folder full of scanned photos to a personal Web site hosted on a server that isn’t compatible with the Web Publishing Wizard, for instance, you might want to convert them to JPEG format and shrink them to a standard size first . Here’s how:

1 . Open a Windows Explorer window, navigate to the folder that contains the images, and then select one or more files .

2 . Click the E-Mail The Selected Items link in the File And Folder Task list .

3 . In the Send Pictures Via E-Mail dialog box, choose the image size you want (Small, Medium, or Large), and click OK .

4 . A new mail message window opens . Don’t bother adding an address to the resulting e-mail . Instead, open a new Windows Explorer window and browse to the folder where you want to save the compressed files . (Don’t use the original folder . )

5 . Select all the attachment icons from the e-mail message, and then drag them out of the message window and into the folder you just opened .

6 . Close the message window .

By default, this option converts BMP and TIFF images to JPEG format (because GIF and JPEG images are already compressible, using this option leaves those file formats alone) .
Jen C (20)
182415 2003-10-12 05:12:00 thats easy :)

go into paintshop then click file > batch conversion

you'll be able to figure it out from there :)
Jimmy D (2061)
182416 2003-10-12 06:19:00 I use powerdesk or ACDSee both does batch file changes kiwibeat (304)
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