Batch Resizing by Maximum Pixels

[Kauz]

Hi,

I know I'm new but I tried searching the forums and reading through as many possible answers as I could find.

I am a photo editor at a large (10,000 issue daily) college newspaper. As part of the job I need to edit a large number of images for web galleries.

I'm trying to find a way to batch edit photos so that they are either a maximum of 700 px high or 700 px wide, depending on if they are horizontal or vertical. I also would like it to just be able to open a RAW file as is, and do the resizing, and save as a small-ish (200 kb) jpeg.

I've made actions before, but this is just beyond my creativity. When I tried doing it just for jpegs, for some reason, the action would only open the one jpeg I recorded the action on and do the proper editing, then close. It also would not work had I tried it on a vertical photo (as the one I created it for was horizontal). My other actions had never only worked to open one specific file, when I said "Open", but I don't know what was different in this case.

Thanks for your help. I hope you can.

 

[Paul MR]

The simple answer is to use File - Automate - Fit Image
If you have Photoshop CS5 there is a much faster way of doing it, and that is to use Bridge, select the export window and use "Save to Hard Drive"