Comments on: Optimising eBay product shots with PhotoShop

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:52:40 +0000

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By: niknaknet

niknaknet — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:44:41 +0000

I use Picasa for my eBay photo processing, purely because the quality you can acheive in very little time is excellent. It’s also free!

I’ve even begun embedding slideshows in auctions for items with many images.

About the only limitation with Picasa are the limited watermarking options.

Irfanview is known to have excellent JPEG compression, better than Photoshop.

A general point about resizing – it’s usually a good idea to sharpen the image afterwards. Some resize algorithms include a sharpening step.

By: Elvis

Elvis — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:54:48 +0000

Thanks Chris

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:44:42 +0000

Yes Mark T – Irfanview does have a batch resize option, though I must say, I tried last night with an image found in t’interweb that was 2848×2136 pixels with a file size of 1.45MB, and resized it in Irfanview to compare compression with Photoshop.

I resized it to 1000 pxls, and the resultant file size was reduced to 104kbs, so the file compression Chris got of 59kbs is very good

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:44:50 +0000

Microsoft Image Resizer for Windows XP, enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click. Download ImageResizer.exe from the Microsoft web site.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:20:20 +0000

In my version of photoshop, which is an oldish one. You need to create “actions” and then use file>automate>batch

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:58:09 +0000

You’ll have to read the manual, it’s probably something like File>Scripts>Image Processor in CS3

By: Elvis

Elvis — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:44:05 +0000

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately when I open up photoshop and click “file” there is no option available to me called “Process Multiple Images”.

I’m using adobe photoshop cs3 if this matters?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:38:23 +0000

Very good tips, keep em coming.

I guess packing the image names with relevant keywords would also be helpful

By: Mark T

Mark T — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:28:44 +0000

You can batch edit with Irfanview as well I believe.

Irfanview is free.