Resizing in Adobe Bridge and Compressing Your Folder

 

Batch Resizing

  1. Open your folder in Adobe Bridge and select all the images (Command-A).
  2. Go to Tools -> Photoshop -> Image Processor. (This will launch Adobe Photoshop, so that it will take a few moments.) If it is missing, uninstall Photoshop and reinstall it. Restart Bridge, and you should be fine.
  3. In the Image Processor window:
    1. Leave the first section unchecked.
    2. In the second section, check Select Folder, then click Select Folder and create a new folder to save your resized images. (Tip: Use “YYMMDD_initials_slug_sm” to denote the images as being smaller.)
    3. Under File Type, check Save as JPEG and Resize to Fit. Set the Quality to 10 and the width and height to 2000 pixels.
    4. Under Preferences, leave Run Action unchecked, but check Include ICC Profile.
  4. Click Run and wait while all your images are resized. Depending on how powerful your computer is, this could take a while – you’re leaning on the processor to do a lot of work. I recommend against running other applications (especially Chrome); let Adobe have as much power as your machine can handle.

Compressing for Upload to eLC

  1. Once your images are done, they will be in a subfolder titled “JPEG.” Move them out of that folder; one with your name “YOUR NAME” is an example.
  2. Right-click (or Control-click) on the main folder and select Compress. This will take a few moments, but it will give you a single file with a “.zip” extension that you can upload to eLC.
  3. You can right-click (or Control-click) on that file and select Get Info to see the size – for eLC, it needs to be less than 1 GB.