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Showing posts with label image. Show all posts
Tinuous Is A Powerful Batch Image Editor With Support For Plug ins
At first glance, Tinuous may seem to be just another image conversion app, but the tool offers some impressive image processing power under the hood. The software is designed to perform batch conversion of image files. This comes useful in instances when you don’t have time to convert each image file individually. It allows you to resize and rename images, adjust image quality, alter dimensions, change brightness, contrast, saturation and hue, and modify some other aspects of the images. The application supports most major image formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF and more. Keep reading for more details.
A very useful feature of the tool is the directory tree pane on the left, making the process of browsing for files stored anywhere on your computer both quick and intuitive. You just have to expand the directory to reveal further subdirectories, and then drag the required directories to the Input Folder or Output folder boxes to instantly set the directory as source or destination folder for the images.
Tinuous packs in various photo tweaking options under its three tabs named General, Individual and Advanced. Additionally, you can change a few application specific settings under the Options tab, and setup third-party plugins under the Plug-ins tab. The General tab houses a multitude of image alteration settings. You can specify the formats to be converted under the Input drop down menu, which is useful if you have many types of image files present in the folder but want to process only a particular type such as JPEG. Likewise, you can specify the output format. The Save Settings section to the right changes dynamically according to the selected output format. For JPEG, you can increase or reduce image quality, change sampling ratio, shrink width or height, rotate the image or sharpen edges (Low, Med, High). Similarly, you get the appropriate settings for other file types such as PNG, BMP, TIFF etc.
You’re only allowed to select a whole directory as source location, but you can manually select specific images from that directory to work on under the Individual tab. Simply mark the images that you want to convert under the Input Files list, and the rest of the images that are left unmarked will be skipped by the process.
The Advanced tab allows you to further tweak the conversion settings. It enables you to change the Bit depth of the output files, as well as toggle dithering, progressive, transparent color, exif copy and interlace modes. You can also add your comments to the file. While there aren’t any advanced effects to apply, the basic brightness, contrast, saturation and hue controls can come handy to manually tweak an otherwise bland image.
The Options tab houses some generic settings, allowing you to specify the default input and output folders, add an entry for Tinuous under the ‘Send To’ context menu for quick conversion right from Windows Explorer, and toggle a few other miscellaneous parameters.
Tinuous is a robust image converter that does its job exceptionally well, making it one of best tools of its kind around. The app works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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A very useful feature of the tool is the directory tree pane on the left, making the process of browsing for files stored anywhere on your computer both quick and intuitive. You just have to expand the directory to reveal further subdirectories, and then drag the required directories to the Input Folder or Output folder boxes to instantly set the directory as source or destination folder for the images.
Tinuous packs in various photo tweaking options under its three tabs named General, Individual and Advanced. Additionally, you can change a few application specific settings under the Options tab, and setup third-party plugins under the Plug-ins tab. The General tab houses a multitude of image alteration settings. You can specify the formats to be converted under the Input drop down menu, which is useful if you have many types of image files present in the folder but want to process only a particular type such as JPEG. Likewise, you can specify the output format. The Save Settings section to the right changes dynamically according to the selected output format. For JPEG, you can increase or reduce image quality, change sampling ratio, shrink width or height, rotate the image or sharpen edges (Low, Med, High). Similarly, you get the appropriate settings for other file types such as PNG, BMP, TIFF etc.
You’re only allowed to select a whole directory as source location, but you can manually select specific images from that directory to work on under the Individual tab. Simply mark the images that you want to convert under the Input Files list, and the rest of the images that are left unmarked will be skipped by the process.
The Advanced tab allows you to further tweak the conversion settings. It enables you to change the Bit depth of the output files, as well as toggle dithering, progressive, transparent color, exif copy and interlace modes. You can also add your comments to the file. While there aren’t any advanced effects to apply, the basic brightness, contrast, saturation and hue controls can come handy to manually tweak an otherwise bland image.
The Options tab houses some generic settings, allowing you to specify the default input and output folders, add an entry for Tinuous under the ‘Send To’ context menu for quick conversion right from Windows Explorer, and toggle a few other miscellaneous parameters.
Tinuous is a robust image converter that does its job exceptionally well, making it one of best tools of its kind around. The app works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Download Tinuous
IrfanView is the Best Free Batch Image Converter One Can Ask For
To provide the best screenshots for all my articles, I have to process them using a couple of tools. So far I was using RIOT to batch resize and compress my photos and SnagIt for basic annotation needs. However, sometimes when the canvas of the image is white, I had to add borders to them so that they look a bit more presentable. Even being an excellent tool, RIOT lacked the option to add image borders. SnagIt did have the option, but it had to be done manually for each individual photo.Yesterday I had about 16 photos that needed a border and I was just not in the mood to do the manual work. I thought that it would be better if I utilize the time to look for an alternative and save the workload of future conversions. And IrfanView was my first and final destination in the search.
We have already seen a comprehensive guide to IrfanView and today we will be seeing how to use the tool’s batch convert option to convert almost any kind of image file without limitations.
After IrfanView opens up click on File->Batch Conversion/Rename to open up the batch converter.
You can also press the hotkey button ‘b’ to do it. Let’s now have a look at the number of things we can do with the IrfanView batch image converter.
Batch Convert Image Type and Compress Quality
The very basic thing that can be done using this tool is changing the file type and compressing the output quality of the photos. The option is readily available in the basic batch conversion mode and you just need to select the output format of the images. You can even compress the images and reduce the size and overall quality of the photos.
When you are done, add the batch, set the destination directory and click on the Start Batch button.
That was an example of one of the basic tasks the batch converter can accomplish. Let’s now have a look at its advanced options.
Cool Tip: See how you can save bandwidth by batch compressing photos before uploading them online.
Batch Resize Images
Using IrfanView’s batch resize option, you can resize the image either by providing the exact width and height of the image or by mentioning the percentage reduction you would like to see in the processed photos. The first method can be useful when all the images in the batch are of the same dimension while the second option comes in handy when images are of varied height and width.
When you enter just the width or height, the tool automatically sets the corresponding value in order to preserve the aspect ratio. The new size can be in pixels, centimeters or inches. Before you are batch converting the images, check the option Use advanced options in the batch conversion window.
Change Color Depth
Sometimes while converting the images, we change the color depth from true color to 256 or 16 bit color, just to reduce the size of the photo without changing its dimensions. IrfanView batch operation to change the color depth provides the feature with a touch of excellence.A user can not only change the color depth to standard 256 or 16 bit color, but can choose from a range of custom colors to get the best output file size result.
Rotate and Add Borders
You can also rotate photos using the batch convert mode. Simply check the related option to rotate the images and save the settings before starting a batch. The option to add a border is also there and can be accessed by checking the Canvas Size option. In canvas size settings select the canvas background color and select the size of the border on all the sides.
The very reason behind the discovery of the IrfanView batch converter was to use the image border option and trust me when I say that it’s the easiest option to get this done.
Cool Tip: See how you can automatically rotate camera photos to fix the orientation before uploading to the web.
Conclusion
So that was how you can convert almost anything and everything related to images using the batch image convert mode in IrfanView. Seriously, IrfanView for a free image editing tool is just extraordinary. You are missing a lot if you haven’t tried it yet. Do give it a shot.Via Guidingtech
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