thanks Matt. You post as I was typing. Hows this according to the page you sent and the instructions you sent and throwing a character from the instructions I found: for FILE in *.jpg ; do NEWFILE=`echo "$FILE" | sed -e 's/.jpg$/_resized.jpg/'` convert '*.jpg[1600x0]' *.jpg done On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > forgot to mention the image needs to be close to 1600x1200. > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> it is bit more complex than I at first thought so I need to seek more >> advice: >> >> So, I am going to put all of the files that need to be resized into their >> own folder. Then to accomplish the task I would open terminal and go to the >> directory mentioned previously and in it type: >> >> > $im = new Imagick('*'); >> $im->scaleImage(1600, 0); >> ?> >> >> and that should do the trick? >> (ref http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.scaleimage.php) >> >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> thanks! >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:07 PM, sean wrote: >>> >>>> Use ImageMagick instead - it's designed for this and is quite powerful. >>>> On Dec 31, 2015 1:57 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there a way to scale a bunch of pictures down to the same size with >>>>> GIMP? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: