Shrinking a load of photos at once

[arranj]

How do shrink (i.e. from 2000x2000 pixels to 500x500 pixels) a whole folder of photos at once, using standard HP / XP software ?

[Drewhound]

If no one can help you can use Irfanview, it's a small (less than 1 Mb) free image editing programme which does it. http://www.irfanview.com/

[Headtime]

Irfanview is a simple and free photo viewer/editor, available at; http://www.irfanview.com/ Download it, Run th eprogram then choose 'FILE' then ' 'Batch Conversion/Rename'. Tick the 'Use Advanced Options' box, the click the 'Set Advanced Options' button. It's pretty straightforward from there.

[Headtime]

Blimey, Drewhound you must have posted at the same time as me! See Arranj, that's two recommendations for Irfanview.

[Phantaxus]

I will also recommend irfanview its the tool I use

[Cetti]

Irfanview - in case no-one has mentioned it! It's a tiny file, easy to use and out of four other software packages it's still the only one I ever use.

[arranj]

Thanks people - worked a treat !