Show HN: BulkResizePhotos.com – Resize photos in your web browser

by jfoster • 12 years ago

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jfoster2• 12 years ago

I started this project in December. Me and a few of my friends went on holiday together. One of our friends took about 1000 photos with his DSLR, totalling about 6 GB. Due to the size of the photos, he had difficulty sharing them with us.

I know Adobe Lightroom can resize batches of photos, and there are a bunch of free installable tools that can also do it, but I wanted to make something that was extremely convenient. Short of building it into operating systems, I couldn't think of anything easier than a webpage where you just drag in the photos and click "Start."

IdeaSunday• 12 years ago

Awesome! And it works for 1000 photos? How long did that take?

jfoster2• 12 years ago

Actually only got it into a decent enough state for that earlier today. Image quality was previously suboptimal if the delta between the original size and target size was too big. We haven't done the 1000 photos yet, but I expect it will take about 10 - 20 mins to process all of them. All of the photos are processed offline, so it's primarily just a function of CPU speed, browser javascript engine, and original/target picture sizes.

v_ignatyev2• 12 years ago

It's great. A year ago we was doing similar project but didn't run it :(

Sad lesson. "Shipping is the feature."

v_ignatyev2• 12 years ago

I've found my project source code. Can share it with you. It uses some non-trivial scaling algorythm (can't remember the link to the original publication about this resampling), which produces good quality. I've tried to port all math to worker but haven't it done yet. If it can help, I could easily join your project and share codebase. I've got some marketing ideas and I know where to grab some traffic and how to set up monetization. If it's interested, touch me via e-mail or in Skype: vladimir.ignatyev

Show HN: BulkResizePhotos.com – Resize photos in your web browser

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