I recently got a digital camera for the first time, and it's 8.1 megapixels, so I've been taking my photos in insanely high resolution. However, I've been wanting to post them up for people to browse, so I've needed to scale them down to something reasonable like 800x600, which is a pain, as I need to open them up in the GIMP one by one, scale them, do color correction, then save and move on to the next one. However, today I searched and quickly found something called "David's Batch Processor," an extension to automatically do color correction, cropping, scaling, and resaving. It takes a few minutes to figure out how to install and use it, but I was happy to find that there's a Win32 version, and it seems quite sufficient for my uses. If it interests anyone, you can grab it at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html.

This is great! I have a 12.1 megapixel camera and it is a HOG when it comes to memory obviously, but the picture quality is great. Thanks for the link Kerm.

No worries. The only thing I don't like is that it doesn't let me do Auto White Balance, one of the things I frequently use on my pictures. I'd also like the option to pause and let me review pictures so I can perform any additional tweaks I want before it saves and goes on to the next image.

Real men use Imagemagick.

Also, I remember wanting to do this with PSP8 (Paint Shop Pro) some time ago. That's when I discovered it has a Python scripting engine.

I assume GIMP also has a scripting engine of sort, hence script-fu, but I'm too lazy to try to figure it out.

Yeah, GIMP has Python scripting too (script-fu is scheme I think)

http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html

Ah, very nice, I'll have to try it at some point.

Photoshop has been doing this for ages, psh.

Yes, which I believe I mentioned in my first post. Photoshop excels at macros, while GIMP most decidedly does not. I'm doing my best to fill that void.

Too bad you didn't actually mention it in your "first post?"

Eh, I thought about the fact while I was typing my first post. Good enough.

good find, thanks

No problem, I figured this was something worth posting up because I think other people probably run into the same issues as me.