Recently I needed to resize a number of images with my laptop computer.  I had shot a number of photos with my Canon G9, and wanted to scale them down to a web-appropriate display size.  I only have one Photoshop license which is in use on another computer, so I generally use GIMP for photo editing tasks on my laptop.   Batch processing images with Photoshop is trivial with the image processor script.  One simply launches the script, selects the source and destination folders, chooses a file type and size, and hits the Run button.

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Python in VFX   July 1st, 2009

I’m giving a short talk tomorrow night at the Michigan Python Users Group.  Known as Michipug, the group meets the first Thursday of every month at SRT Solutions in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Although I haven’t attended any previous meetings, when the call came out for discussion topics I thought this might be a good way to introduce myself and meet group members.

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