Don't Sleep on Photoshop for Resizing!

In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to bulk-downsize images in Photoshop.
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In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to bulk-downsize images in Photoshop. Please subscribe to my newsletter! anthonymorganti.substack.com/subscribe Check out one of my newer websites - The Best in Photography: bestinphotography.com/ Please help support my KZbin channel - consider purchasing my Lightroom Presets: www.anthonymorganti.com/ To get more info about Photoshop, go here: prf.hn/l/lGnjDBl Here is my list of recommended software: wp.me/P9QUvD-ozx Here is a list of my current cameras, lenses, etc.: wp.me/P9QUvD-ozG Help me help others learn photography. You can quickly offer your support here, where I receive 100% of your kind gift: ko-fi.com/anthonymorganti You can change the default amount to the amount you want to donate.

[@Christographer_UK]

I do Photoshop resizing slightly differently than you Anthony. I select my images to be resized from Bridge. No big deal there, but when it comes to the Photoshop script I'm very often resizing a real mixture of sizes, aspect ratios & orientations. All Photoshop actually wants to know is the length in pixels of the longest edge. So, for example, I want to resize a bunch of these random-sized images for Facebook. I choose the best long edge size for Facebook, which is 2048px & type 2048 into both Width & Height. Set to sRGB, output to the same folder & click run. No mucking about worrying about aspect ratios & orientation. All you have to know is the required size of the longest edge. Photoshop works it all out for you. It's easy peasy!

[@DaveKingMusic]

Great tip!

[@cppguy16]

Sometimes I downsize after Gigapixel (PhotoAI) to cut artificial harshness. I got some old 1980s scans from friends at extremely high resolution, but the detail was disappointingly low. I used PhotoAI to sharpen and reconstruct the faces, which worked wonderfully, but it had this very harsh digital feeling to it. It didn't look analog at all, more like a very early digital phone photo. Since the input was unnecessarily high resolution already, I didn't upscale in Topaz. Instead, I slightly downscaled in Photoshop. I first mixed the original (20%) and the Topaz-improved output (80%) to remove some of the harshness, then resized a little, and at that time it looked more film-like. Maybe in the future AI will be able to generate more cinematic/analog-looking output, rather than the harsh regenerated faces. I was super impressed how much facial details we got back, the paper photo was really blurry. Also Topaz can only recover faces, not the rest of the body and objects, but this is the best we have. Everyone was so happy with this improvement already.

[@j.j.mahanyjr776]

Cute puppy!

[@bigbigsquid]

Cool! 😎👍🏼🏆

[@williamcollins5417]

Thank you....good to have in my arsenal....

[@AnthonyGoodley]

*I always assumed that a person had to pay per image when submitting for copyright at the copyright office. Due to the expensive nature of per image prices I never bothered to even copyright one image.* I'd bet I'm not the only person who didn't know that you could do hundreds of images at once for ONLY one set price. You _really_ should make a video detailing how you do this!

[@ApurvaMadia]

Hi. Thanks for a very lucid presentation. But why go through Image processor? can't one do this through Image Size menu?

[@9rider11]

Thanks for this excellent info. Please provide a link for the copyright office.

[@davidross1210]

I'm currently creating slideshows of old family photographs using Premiere Rush (it comes with the Adobe bundle... what can I say, it didn't cost me extra 😣), I found that Rush won't import large image sizes and had to experiment with resizing them in order to get them to load. I'm hoping this technique will make that step a lot faster so thanks for the tip.

[@oldtvnut]

Is there an option to downsize by a certain factor, say to 1/2 the original size?

[@Hartmonstr]

This method works if you want all your images the same height or width, but what if you have a series of horizontal and vertical images that all need to be, say, 900x600? Short of manually rotating each horizontal image to vertical (or vice versa) and then resizing, there's no way to do this in Photoshop. But Lightroom offers an easy method-just import the JPEGs into LR (using the Add tab at the top). Then select all the photos and do a File > Export. In the Image Sizing tab, check the Resize to Fit box and select Long Edge. Add the desired length in pixels or inches at the resolution you want. Your files will be resized to your selected length, regardless of orientation.

[@richardsmith5021]

Other than batch resizing, doesn’t Lightroom have the capability to downsize during export?

[@kerryknudsen2649]

Great job, as always. However, I would like to request a fact-check. It has been my understanding that copyright exists at the moment of creation. In photography, when I click the shutter, it's copyrighted to me, unless I am doing work for hire. Clearly, there are other impressions going around, and I could be wrong. However, in the course of getting a graduate degree in magazines, way back when, I was required to take a few courses through the law school. One of those dealt with copyright, and that is the source of my information. Subsequent to that, I spent half a career in the States and half in Canada, and I have been owner and manager of magazines and magazine companies for over 40 years. During that time I bought, sold and published photographs with great regularity. I say this not to prove I'm right, but to say I have never been sued. I have also never found one of my images being used commercially by somebody that did not have permission, so things could have changed. That said, copyright law is international in scope, so it changes infrequently and little. If it has changed, I need to know.