Mass image convertion

[Killy]

Does anyone know of a program that would allows me to convert a large quantity of BMP file to JPG quickly (And by quickly I mean that I wont have to open each file and Save it as a JPG).

[crono_logical]

Macromedia Fireworks has a nice batch conversion feature, but it's not free software :p Dunno if there's any free stuff that can do similar.

[Burtsplurt]

I think Photoshop does that kind of thing. It has a batch converter anyhow, but I've never used it. I think you can get a trial version from adobe.com, but it's a pretty hefty download. It'd probably be quicker to convert the files manually!

[Dr Unne]

Paint Shop Pro does batch conversions. So does the <a href="http://www.gimp.org">gimp</a>, though it might be a bit harder to figure out since you have to do it through scripting. <a href="http://www.imagemagick.com/">ImageMagick</a> was designed for exactly this kind of thing, but unless you're in Linux and feel like throwing together a script or two, you likely won't want to do that. It'd be like 4 or 5 lines worth of Perl code to do it though.

[Killy]

Thanks, Paint Shop Pro did it.

Edit: Now, does anyone know of a way to Mass resize all those JPGs?

[Endless]

Since you can do that in Photoshop, I assume you can in PSP aswell.
The general idea is to create an action which will resize your image (like 75% or to a fixed size) and have the batch apply the action to all the files you want.