Newb Question Ik but I forgot how to resize photos.

[kylrwilliamsphotogra]

How do you batch resize photo's to 4 x 6, 5 x 7 and 8 x 10.

 

[The_Traveler]

what software do you have and what is the aspect ratio of the existing files you want to resize.

 

[kylrwilliamsphotogra]

Adobe Suite and where do i find the aspect ratio?

 

[KmH]

You can't just resize. You have to crop.

Your Nikon camera makes photos that have a 3:2 aspect ratio. 4x6, 8x12, 10x15, 12x18, 18x24, 20x30, 24x36 - are all 3:2 aspect ratio in that the long side of each is 1.5x longer than the short side. (3 / 2 = 1.5)

To get from 3:2 to a different aspect ratio you have to crop some part of the original image away.

Wallets and 5x7 have a 5:7 aspect ration. The long side is 1.4 times longer than the short side.

8x10 is a 5:4 aspect ratio. The long side is 1.25x longer than the short side.

Image resolution (pixels x pixels) and print resolution (ppi, pixels per inch) determine physical print size.
For online display, image size depends on the image resolution and the display application, so for electronic display ppi is meaningless, having zero effect on size.

Here are the aspect ratios as they would be in your cameras viewfinder if they could be displayed. Pro photographers often leave extra space in the viewfinder to allow fore later cropping to different aspect ratios without losing a part of the original they want in the crop.

 

[cheshirecat79]

for quick and easy image resizing, I'd suggest "Image Resize for Windows". It's a small program that integrates into the windows shell (Right click dialog) that allows you to quickly resize images (not raw). You can scale up, down, resize by pixels, inches, or whatever. You can tell it to make a copy rather than resize the original. It's free. Been using it for years since it was a release by Microsoft for Windows XP.

https://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

MSFT dropped the original program, so some guys picked it up and modernized it. Batch-resizing, multi-cpu encoding, the works. Can't recommend it enough. Just understand, though, that if you are resizing a photo to a different ratio, you're best off using LR, Photoshop, or whatever graphic/cataloging program you typically use.