Bulk resizing of Images in a directory Ubuntu 10.04

A quick and convenient way to resize all the images in a directory, and make them suitable for uploading or emailing them to friends, is to use nautilus image converter. This is a plugin for the nautilus file browser used in Ubuntu's Gnome desktop.

You will need to install it... open a terminal window and copy-n-paste the below command:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter

You will need to restart Gnome to get it to work. So restart the computer or logout and in again.

To use it... open your home folder and browse to the images you want to resize. Select them all (using the shift or Ctrl key to multi select). Then right click on the selection and choose 'resize'.

Use the applet to resize by a common resolution or scale by percentage or a custom resolution. You have the option of creating a new resized image or resizing the image in place. The converter is smart enough to know what's portrait and landscape and will resize them correctly.

This has saved me lots of time and mouse clicks when I've uploaded a camera full of images to upload to picasa or use in slideshows etc.

Enjoy.