Jus back from tour?? Want to make your friends envious by sharing your clicks? Well, you’ll definitely need to convert them to smaller file sizes b4 u can upload them to your social networking sites or email them across. If u have been doing the same file by file you‘ll find this interesting. In this workshop I used Irfan View, a popular feature rich image viewer available for free from www.irfanview.net. If you don’t have it on your PC, get it now. Don’t worry it’s just 1.3MB. STEP 1: Launch Irfan view. Click File>Batch Conversion/Rename. The batch conversion window is displayed which lets you set all options for conversion.

STEP 2: On the right side of the window, browse to the folder where the source images are located. Select the images you want to convert, use Ctrl key select multiple files. Click add or drag them into when u r finished.

STEP 3: Choose the output directory where the converted files have to be saved by clicking on ‘Browse’. Click on ‘Use this directory as output’ if u want to save the images in the same folder as the source files.

STEP 4: Make sure batch conversion is selected under ‘Work as’. Choose the output format of the images by clicking on the drop down under Output format.

STEP 5: Select the ‘Use advanced options’ check box, then click on ‘Set advanced options’. The settings window is now displayed. This is where u set what u wants to do with your images.

STEP 6: Select ‘Resize’ check box. Then click on either ‘Set new size’ or whichever u prefer. Enter the required figures. Selecting ‘Preserve aspect ratio’ would be wise. Click on ‘Ok’ and start to begin processing. In my next workshop I’ll help you do your regular Photoshop tweaks faster. To keep you posted click here to subscribe to hacksbay feed or email services.