Thank you to everyone who responded!!
On 2014-09-24 15:03, Stephen Partington wrote:
> I shoot raw and keep them at full resolution and then render out the
> correct size i need. The downside to changing the resolution is that
> you will lose detail and you will never get it back. so the first step
> is to play with the various resolutions and see which ones look best
> to you.
>
> This is a good discussion on this very concept. I would suggest you
> take a peek at it.
> http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/30243/what-quality-to-choose-when-converting-to-jpg
> [2]
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Mike Ballon <mike.ballon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You're image size really depends on how much size you want to save I
>> guess, although also if you're willing to have some non-visible
>> pixel lose you could convert them as well. You can start playing
>> around with 2048x1536 or similar just keep in mind your aspect
>> ratio.
>>
>> Here's the for loop I use for creating thumbnails, use as needed:
>>
>> for i in `find "$LOCDIR" -iname "*hqw*"`
>> do
>> echo "$i"
>> TN=`echo "$i" | sed 's/hqw/tn/'`
>> echo "creating thumbmail for "$i" ..."
>> /usr/bin/convert -resize 200x200 "$i" -background none
>> -gravity center "$TN"
>> done
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:53 PM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have about 9GB of photos. These images are 2560 X 1920 and
>>> are roughly 2mb each. I assume I could get away with a much
>>> smaller image.
>>>
>>> What size should I reduce these to?
>>>
>>> During my research most suggest using ImageMagick from the
>>> command line. Is this the best practice?
>>>
>>> I'm sure I will want to use some type of script since I do not
>>> want to do this one by one.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help!!
>>>
>>> Keith
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> Stephen
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