Decrease the Size of Your Screenshot Collection using Batch Conversion!

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Hey!

Many of you know about this already, but since I met a few people that didn`t, I made a small guide which will help you save precious disk space!

Batch processing is execution of a series of programs ("jobs") on a computer without manual intervention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_processing

There are alot of programs out there which offer batch conversion, I like
Irfanview the most! It`s easy to use and it`s freeware.

http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/ or http://www.irfanview.de


Irfanview comes with a straight forward windows installer, so everyone should be able to install it without experiencing any troubles.



Once installed, open Irfanview

Click`File`and then `Batch conversion`

1. Select batch conversion
   
2. Choose your output format (preferably JPEG)
   
3. Go to your Crossfire-Folder which should be in your Windows Documents-Folder by default. in the top window
   mark/highlight the files you want to convert
   
4. Click `Add`
   
5. Select the output-folder, where you wish your Screenshots to be saved to
   I would suggest keeping it the same folder as above
   
6. Press `Start Batch`

should look like this



after the batch process is completed, go to your Documents/Crossfire Folder, all your screenshots should now be resized.

If you wish to keep your original/large BMP files, you can select this by clicking `Advanced` (below the options button)

in my testrun I downsized a total of 310 Files(645MB) to a total size of 30.6MB without losing an awful lot of imagequality.

CFGu

Excellent! Well-made guide. Keep it up looking forward to future guides if you make any

RetiredGMer

Thumbs up. gz