Batch It Pro

I suspect a good number of the people out there reading this have a digital camera or are thinking of getting one. As a long time time digital camera owner,I'd like to offer a bit of advice (other than the obvious recommendation of getting yourself a decent set of rechargeable batteries) and that's to download and try BatchIt Pro. It's not going to be of much help when you're taking pictures, but it's a time saver when you finally get all those pics on your computer.

When you've got lots of images (from a digital camera, pics you've downloaded, etc.) sitting around that you want to work with, two things become obvious. It's impossible to tell what's what by simply looking at the filenames. I'm not a member of the Psychic Friends Network, so figuring out DCP_0893.jpg by name alone can be difficult without opening it up. Then they never seem to be in the size you want. If you're going to upload them to your Web site you've gotta shrink down the original image and then make some thumbnails. You don't actually have to make thumbnails but unless you want people running away in droves, you'd better.

Riding to the rescue is BatchIt Pro. BatchIt Pro alleviates all those hassles and automates everything from start to finish. Begin with a folder full of pics, end with a Web page full of thumbnail images and a separate set of pictures that are redone, edited, and perfectly safe for consumption. BatchIt Pro can do basic image editing like modifying brightness and contrast, rotating the image, and cropping it. You can chose to take advantage of this before you do a massive batch processing or not. I prefer to do the hardcore editing in PhotoShop or PaintShop then use BatchIt Pro for the hands on, bulk changes like resizing images.