In Depth with IrfanView - #1 - Batch Image Conversion in IrfanView

Hi! This Michael Callahan, Doctor File Finder with your butterscotch.com’s special 10 part tutorial on IrfanView.

And today, we’re going to look at batch conversions and this is part one of 10. So, I have IrfanView open, I have a picture of the Dingle Peninsula and I got it loaded just for some color. Batch conversion is a cool feature in IrfanView because with that you can take a large number of files that are in a one graphics format and convert all of them to another file format. IrfanView also offers the feature to rename files in the batch.

So, we’ll click file. We’ll go down here to batch conversion rename, see it opens up and over here you can see you can do batch conversion, batch rename or you can do a batch conversion then rename the resulting files. Here’s where we pick our format that has a ping, we’ll put them as JPEG. Now, Advanced options are something that you might want to explore on your own. You can do things like crapping, you can sharpen brightness, you can add over latex, a lot of little functions that you can pick from.

Down here, we can select our output directory so that we put our new files in a different place. We can have it show a preview, we can tell it to include subdirectories. Now, to pick the pictures we want, we’ll click up here, we move over to this side, hold down the shift key and click. We’ll say add all to our list to be converted and then we’ll move here and say start batch. And you can see that IrfanView is quickly going through and converting the files, just about done. And the renaming function is actually very cool too because you can quickly rename your files much faster than you could manually.

So there just a few seconds, we converted 46 files from one graphics format into another using IrfanView and that’s all the risk to it.


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