{"id":1524,"date":"2009-08-03T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2012-08-18T19:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:48:29","slug":"some-great-free-image-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/some-great-free-image-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Great Free Image Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am currently working with a customer who wants to set up a store. They had a spreadsheet of the items that they want to sell. There are over 3,000 of them. Creating a database if items for a shopping cart is not that unusual, but in this case the item images were in the spreadsheet as a URL on the vendors website.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want to hot link<\/a> the images because there can be all sort of problems with that, so I needed to download and shrink most of them to a usable size. So for 3,100 images and thumbnails for each I was looking at over 6,200 images. No small task.<\/p>\n

I did quite a bit of research and tried out several of each kind and I discovered two programs that I want to recommend here today.<\/p>\n

First Free Download Manager<\/a>, as the name says is free (and open source another plus) and designed to do much more than what I needed it to do. Free Download Manager allows you to: adjust traffic usage; to organize and schedule downloads; download video from video sites; download whole web sites with HTML Spider; operate the program remotely, via the internet, and more! It allowed me do save over 6,200 images in under two hours.<\/p>\n

Next I needed to resize these images to fit in the cart so they wouldn’t crowd out the description or force things off the page. BIMP Lite<\/a> came to my rescue. BIMP Lite is a small and simple batch processor for image files, that allows you to perform various functions on multiple images. BIMP is not open source, but it’s 100% FREE and contains no spyware, adware or nagware. It also does much more than resize, you can add many other image and file name operations.<\/p>\n

A couple of great programs that I highly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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