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Introduction

Batch It! Pro  is a Windows-based Batch Image Processor which assist you in saving precious time in handling mundane tasks like batch resizing, rotation, adding captions, renaming, creating html thumbnail galleries and a variety of other stuffs. Batch It! Pro allows import and export of BMP, GIF, TIFF, PCX, PNG and JPEG image formats.

It may not be a hassle when there are several images to process but with the advancement of digital photography and storage media, there is a likelihood that you may be taking even more photographs then before.

There are many excellent Image Editors available in today's market but few allows you the simplicity and flexibility which Batch It! Pro  provides. Batch It! Pro  was written with the novice in mind. There is no scripting language to learn or complex procedures to follow. In fact, we have clients who being using the program right away within looking at the documentation.

Since 1998, Batch It! Pro  has received a number of special mentions and awards for its functionability and ease of use. We are not resting on our laurels and are constantly improving the software over time.

At iRedsoft Technology Inc, we are a client-oriented business. Our softwares are built based on our interactions with our clients.

Our programs are being used by hobbyists, photographers, real estate agents, web designers, government agencies and many others.


v3.0 Features
Features

Below is a short list of benefits and features available to you when you use Batch It! Pro

1) Automated Image Resizing. With the advancement in the field of digital photography and storage media, it is not uncommon to take large quantity of megapixel pictures which are several megabytes in size. It will take a considerable time to resize the images individually by hand. With Batch It!, all you have to do is to click a few buttons and let it resize all the images for you while you enjoy your cup of coffee or tea. Maintaining Ratio Aspects of the images is also not an issue. You would not need to make all those complicating computations, let leave it to Batch It!.This is great for creating images, thumbnails for the web or for sending them across emails.

2) Automated Image Rotation. Although cameras are made to take pictures as landscape images, it is not uncommon to take them as portrait images. With Batch It!, you can determine which images are to be rotated and which should remain as landscape images.

3) Automated Text Captioning. Although the internet is a great place to showcase your prize-winning pictures but there is the risk of having others copy your images and taking them as theirs. Text Captioning allows you to add a short text caption on the images which are visible to all. Apart from adding copyright text, it can be used to add short description about the images.

4) Automated Watermarking. Batch It! Pro allows you to add image watermark to the image.

5) Loading Images in JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM, GIF, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX, WMF, FAX, PSD, PDD, PSP, CUT and PCD Formats.

6) Saving Images in JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, GIF, PBM, PGM, PPM and TGA format. Batch It! Pro allows you to save processed images in formats which are commonly used in Windows and on the internet.

7) Automated Image Manipulation. This allows you to adjust brightness, contrast and also convert images to grayscale or photo negatives.

8) Automated Filename Renaming.With the built-in Filename Changer, all you need to do is to select the list of files, set a few parameters and have the filenames change right before your eyes.

9) Automated Creation of HTML Thumbnail Galleries. With the HTML Thumbnail Galleries, it allows you to share your digital images quickly by posting them as HTML Thumbnail Galleries online or on CD-ROM.

New in version 3.0

1) Saving and Load of Profile. By saving profiles, you can define parameters for different jobs thus saving you time in having to set the parameters over and over again. The Profiles are saved as text-based INI-files. So once you save the profiles, you can distribute them to your clients, colleagues or anyone else so as to ensure consistency across the board. (Note : You will require additional licenses per user).

2) Individual Manipulation of Image Orientation. In version 3, you can set different orientation for each separate images.

3) Loading files by Folders. Version 3.0 provides for three methods of importing files, by selecting individual or a range of files, through Windows Drag n Drop and now by selecting the folder you want to load from.

4) Allow for Manipulating sorting of Image Sequence. There are instances in which the importing of files doesn't give you the image sequence you want in the file renaming procedure. This version allows you to rearrange them as you wish.

5) Change Preview. This version allows you to preview the changes made before it actually get saved to disk. This allows you to manipulate the settings as much as you want before starting the batch image processing.

6) Batch Process Image Processing, Filename Change and HTML Thumbnail Galleries in a Single Process

7) Change Display Name and Caption for HTML Thumbnail Galleries

8) Additional Resizing Methods which include Resizing by Pixels and by Percentage.

9) HTML Thumbnail Image Deployment Screen Size Option

10) Creation of AutoRun.inf file for creation of AutoRun CD-ROM HTML Thumbnail Galleries


Trial Limitation and Registration
Trial Limitation

This program is distributed as a 21 days trial version. This allows you to evaluate the software within that 21 days to determine if the program meets your requirements and needs.

Upon the conclusion of the 21 days after first installation, the program would time-lock. At this time, you can either uninstall the program if you do not feel it is particularly useful or either purchase a license to use the program for any purpose you may so desire provided it is not prohibited by our usage restriction.

Registration and Licensing

The current cost of Registration or License cost per user is US$59.95. Upon registration, you will be provided with an unlock key to be applied to the program. You will also receive email based technical support and free accessed to all minor updates and bug fixes. Minor updates are defined as Point updates (ie v3.0 to 3.9). All major updates (ie 3.x to 4.x) would not be provided free but would be offered at a deep discounted price. However upgrades are not compulsory and you would not need to do so if the current version meets your needs.

For updated prices and order methods, please refer to our website at

http://www.batchimage.com/registration.html .

Direct link to the Secured Online Purchase Page at Regsoft.com

http://www.regsoft.net/purchase.php3?productid=45456

Restriction and Prohibition

During the trial period, you are permitted to evaluate the program to see if it meets your requirement. You may use it to process your personal files (ie images or files) with the program. We permit you to use the processed images for any personal purposes. However, this does not allow you to use them for any commercial purposes.

As a trial version, you are permitted to distribute this program As-Is without prior notice. However, you are not permitted to distribute any unlock keys or license information. You may not transfer or sell your license without prior consent.

The license permits you to use the program on the total number of systems which you license for. (Typically 1 license). If more than one person uses the program, you would be required to purchase additional license. However, we permit you to install the program in its licensed (Registered) form on up to two computers, provided that you are the sole user of the program and that at any time, they do not run concurrently.

We reserve the copyrights and sole ownership of the program. The license permits its usage but does not permit you to reverse-engineer, decompile or modify the program in any means.


Contact Information

For technical support, you can contact us via email at support@batchimage.com .

For pre-sales and sales inquiries, you can contact us via email at sales@batchimage.com .

To keep the cost down, we currently provide email contact. We will usually response to emails within 24 hours.

For purchases, please DO NOT send us any funds directly as we do not process it in-house. We have contracted a range of means to purchase our licenses. Our collection agent is Regsoft.com.

Our Mailing Address is :-

iRedSoft Technology Inc

5325 Elkhorn Blvd PMB 8083

Sacramento, CA 95842

For quick responses, please use our email contact.


Control Center

The Control Center is the main screen where you would do most of your work. It is made up of 4 main components.

Filename Listing

This is where the file names are loaded in. It allows you to set image orientation too. By clicking on a filename, the image would appear in the image preview windows.

Other functions includes delete files from list and rearranging files sequence.

You can also sort the filenames by descending or ascending order by using the popup menu's 'Sort Ascending' and 'Sort Descending' options. You can activate the popup menu by clicking the right-most button of the mouse when pointing the mouse pointer on the file list.

Image Preview

When you click on a filename on the filename listing, the image preview would load the image in the image preview window. It also shows processed files when used in conjunction with the Preview One or the Process All button.

You could manually modify each image by activating the Popup Menu by clicking the right-most button of the mouse with pointing the Image.

Image Preview Popup Menus

Rotate Left - Rotate Image Left 90 degrees

Rotate Right - Rotate Image Right 90 degrees

Flip Horizontally - Flip Image Horizontally

Crop - Manually Crop Image. Prior to Cropping, you would need to define the crop dimension.

Color Adjustment - Perform manual adjustment to Contrast, HSV, HSL, RGB, Equalization and FFT parameters.

Effects - Perform manual adjustment to Filters, Bump Map, Lens, Wave, Morphing Filters and Rotation parameters.

Undo - Undo Changes

Save Changes - Save Changes to Image

Save As ... - Save Changes to Image but allow changing file path and file name.

Properties - Shows Image Properties

Control Buttons

There are 5 buttons on the Control Center.

Load File and Load Folder would allow you to load images to the filename Listing window for processing.

Clear List clears the Filename listing and give you a clean slate to work with.

Preview One lets you preview a single image with the set changes.

Process All begin the batch image proceses to the images based on the set changes.

Status Window

When you click on the image filename in the Filename Listing windows, the Status Windows shows the image dimensions.

During image processing, it will show resizing and saving information.

Load/Save Files to Grid Profile

By default, the program does not save the file listings at Control Center. To save the file listing for subsequently load, use this option.

To Save, click the right-most mouse button at the File Listing and do a Save Files to Grid Profile. To Load, click the right-most mouse button at the File Listing and do a Load Files to Grid Profile.

Note : When reloading the files, the system does not check if the files exists.

Batchimage.com News

Under Help/Batchimage.com News  , you can download the latest news from our website. We will use this to announce new updates, news, tips or anything relating to our software.

Note : This function connects to our website through the internet and thus require you to be on-line to use this.


Settings

The setting screen contains 3 panels of functions which determines the configuration of the images.

Image Processing Properties

The Resizing option allows you to determine how you want the images to be resized by pixels, by percentage or by the pre-defined ratios.

Captioning Properties

The Captioning option allows you to add text captions to the images.

Image Manipulation

The image manipulation option allows you to set brightness, contrast, grayscale or negative image. New in v3.20 is the option to retain or remove image header information. By removing the image header, a smaller file size would result depending on the header information which exist.

Saving Options

The Saving Options allows you to define where you want to save the images in and also some specific image format settings.

Thumbnail Settings (New in v3.30)

This option is found on Settings (C'ont) which allows you to process the image to a second specified dimension. This option allows to specify a different location to save this image in.


Filename Changer

The Filename Changer allows you to batch rename files either by adding prefix and suffix or by renaming them to running sequence filenames.

The program has 3 main panels.

Filename Listing

This Filename Listing contains the list of filenames. You can use it to rearrange and delete filenames from the list. It shows the preview of the new filenames before you perform the change.

You can also sort the filenames by descending or ascending order by using the popup menu's 'Sort Ascending' and 'Sort Descending' options. You can activate the popup menu by clicking the right-most button of the mouse when pointing the mouse pointer on the file list.

Filename Changer Settings

This settings would define how the files are being renamed. It allows you to define prefix and suffix of filename. And in the sequential filename mode, it allows you to determine the start number and the number of digits to be used. If the number has less digits then defined, it would be padded with zeros.

Control Buttons

Load File and Load Folder allows you to import the file listing to be processed.

Clear List clears the list to allow you to start from New.

Preview allows you to refresh the list by applying the new settings unto the filenames.

Process All begins the processing sequence.


Load/Save Profiles
Loading and Saving Profiles

Profiles are collections of settings which are saved in INI file formats. By Saving profiles, you can load them in the future without having to remember all those parameters when you need it.

To Load Profile, do a File/Load Profile and select the already-saved profile to load from. You will see the changes instantly appearing in the configuration.

To Save profile, do a File/Save Profile and select or create a new name for this profile. Although we use .ini as file extension for Profiles, you can use any other file extension.

The program uses a default profile called Default.ini which is located in the same directory in which the program resides in. If no default.ini file exists, it would be created when you quit the program using File/Exit. This would be loaded the next time you run the program.


Batch Image Resizing
Batch Image Resizing - Quick Start Guide

Step 1 - Load Image Files

On the Control Center page, Click Load Folder. You will see a 'Load Files from Folder' screen appearing. This shows the tree views of your directory paths. Select the directory in which you want to import the image files from and click OK. If they are valid image files, they would be imported into the File grid on the left Panel of the Control Center.

Step 2 - Define the Resizing Parameters

On the Settings page left panel, you will see a Resizing Settings groupbox. Here you will select how you want to resize the images.

The option provided allows you to upsize or downsize images by pixels, by percentage or by the pre-defined size.

For this purpose, we will use the pre-defined sizes to resize the images. Select 1/3x . This will bring down the images to 1/3 its original dimension.

Step 3 - Selecting a Saving Location

At the Saving Options panel, use the Save In Directory dropbox and select [Source Directory]\Thumbnails\. This will create a sub-directory called Thumbnails under the original and save all the processed images there.

Step 4 - Begin Processing

Now you are ready to see some action. Go back to Control Center and Click Process All. This would start the batch imaging engine. At the top right corner, you will see a status bar to show the progress. At the bottom, it would show the process information.

That's all to it! Simple ?


Load Image Files
Loading Image Files

The program allows you to load images into the program using either one of three ways. These include Load File, Load Folder and Drag n Drop method.

Load File

This allows you to load selective file or files. Once you click Load File, a Load Image Files dialog box would appear. The program supports multiple file select.

Block Select Files

Under Windows 95/98 , select the last file first. While holding down the Shift Key, select the first file in the selection. Once the block is selected, click Open.

Under Windows NT and Windows 2000, select the first file first. While holding down the Shift Key, select the last file in the selection. Once the block is selected, click Open.

Selective Mode

Under Windows 95/98, select the last file first, While holding down the CTRL Key, select the subsequent files in the selection.Once all the desired files are selected, click Open.

Under Windows NT and Windows 2000, select the first file first. While holding down the CTRL Key, select the subsequent files in the selection. Once all the desired files are selected, click Open.

Load Folder

This allow you to select a folder to load the files from. Select the folders you want to load the files from and click OK.

The loading sequence would be the first file on the list to the last.

Drag and Drop

You can import image files from the Windows/NT explorer. Select the files from the Explorer using SHIFT or CTRL as indicated above. Once you made your selection, click on them while holding down your left-most mouse button and drag them into the last Filename Panel in Control Center. You should see the filenames appearing on the list.


Rotate Images
Rotating Images

The program allows you to manually determine which images are to be rotated and which to remain.

The Orientation column is defaulted as 'AS IS' which indicates no orientation changes are to be made.

Click on the image file name to preview the images. If it require an orientation change, click on the drop arrow in the orientation column and select the orientation required.

The options are :-

As Is - No Orientation Change

Rotate Right 90º - Rotate 90º clockwise

Rotate Left 90º - Rotate 90º counter-clockwise

Rotate 180º - Rotate 180º

Flip Left - Flip Right to Left

Flip Down - Flip Top to Bottom

If you are unsure if the changes are correct, click on the Preview One button and the changes would be on made on screen.

Changes would not be made until you click Process All.


Preview Changes
Preview Image Processing Changes

Changes to the images are not committed to disk until you click Process All.

In the program, on the Control Center page, the Preview One button allows you to preview the changes before they are made to the images.

First select the image to preview the changes and click, Preview One.

All the image processing options are applied to the images with the exception of file name change and actual saving of the file. Do this as often as you like to ensure that the changes proposed are what you want.

Using this option does not degrade the image quality. Each time the Preview One button is press, the program would load the image fresh from file before applying the changes.


Resize Images
Resizing Images

Batch It! gives you several resizing options.

Resize by Pixels

This method allows you to resize images to a set dimension. If a dimension exceeds or is smaller than the set paramter, it will be resized to that dimension.

Downsize by Pixels

This method allows you to determine the largest acceptable dimensions for both Width and Height. If that dimension exceeds the parameter set, it will be downsized. If it does not, it would be ignored.

Upsize by Pixels

This method allows you to set the smallest acceptable dimensions for both Width and height. If that dimension is smaller than the parameter set, it will be upsized.

Resizing by Pixels Options

In addition to the Width and Height options, the Keep Dimension Aspect Ratio and Treat Width as Height if Portrait are being used and would affect how the images would turn out.

If Keep Dimension Aspect Ratio is checked, the images would be resized while maintaining the dimension aspect ratio. If not, all images would resized based on e the defined width and height.

If Treat Width as Height if Portrait is selected, the program to take Width as the longest dimension of the image and height as the smallest of the two. This is particularly useful for images which have already be rotated.

If either width or height is set to 0, that dimension would not be evaluated. However if keep Dimension Aspect ratio is unchecked, then that dimension would be equal to the actual image dimension.

Downsize by %

The images would be downsized by the percentage entered.

For example, if you set % to 20, the images would be downsized by 20%

Upsize by %

The images would be upsized by the percentage entered.

For example, if you set % to 20, the images would be upsized by 20%.

1/4x , 1/3x , 1/2x, 3/4x , 2x, 3x and 4x

Batch It! provides some pre-set dimensions. For other dimensions, use Downsize or Upsize by %.

Resampling Method

The Resampling method allows you to define the resampling technique when resizing your images.

The options include :- Lanczos3, Hermite, Triangle, BSpline and None


Add Text Caption
Adding Text Caption

Text Captioning allows you to add a text caption on the images. This can be used to add Copyright tag to the images. Or perhaps a short description of the place or date of the event.

Above are the alignment options supported and they are self-descriptive. Set the Alignment options to NONE or clear the Caption Text to disable the text caption option.

By selecting Caption in Border, it would create a border as designed by the alignment with the background color defined.

You can change the font and background settings. This would be reflected in the Text Caption edit box. Check Clear Background to get a transparent background.

Note : Font size would not be reflected in the text caption edit box but will be applied to the images during preview or processing. Clear Background would not work if the Caption in Border is selected.

Check Shadowed if you want the Text Caption to be shadowed.


Save images as JPEG
Saving Images as JPEG/PNG

JPEG

JPEG image format is the widely used digital imaging format in the industry today because of its portable image size.

PNG

PNG image format is the lossless format which is beginning to gain in popularity.

EXIF Information

Although Batch It! does not extract EXIF information, it would preserve them if they are found in the images. The EXIF information contains valuable information recorded by some popular digital cameras which include shutter speed, focal length, ISO settings and so on. These information are particularly useful for those new to photography.

There are several JPEG specific settings which are located in the Saving Options.

JPEG/PNG Quality (%)

JPEG uses a lossy compression algorithm which allows it to discard certain details thus allowing you to compose 24 bits color images. Thus by setting higher JPEG Quality, you will have better images but larger file size. By lowering the JPEG Quality, you get a smaller file size by sacrificing some image quality.

If you set the image quality between 70 to 80%, you will get a nice balance of file size and quality. Anything lower than 60%, you will see noticeable image degrading. However, if you intend to create thumbnails or low quality previews, setting lower image quality may be desirable.

Note : The Quality (%) is in relations to the current image quality. By increasing the image quality does not create images with higher quality as compared to the original.

PNG uses a lossless compression algorithm but allows you to set different range of quality. This would define the image file size.

JPEG Smoothing (%)

Typically, JPEG Smoothing is set at 0% to maintain higher image quality. JPEG Smoothing is used when the JPEG Quality is set lower. In those situation, pixelization especially at the edges are made visible. So to compensate, JPEG Smoothing attempts to blur the images to blend the rough edges.

As a rule of thumb, use 0% as far as possible. If you require smoothing, set it as low as possible, somewhere between 0 to 10%.

DPI Setting

Although not specific to JPEG images, Dot Per Inch (DPI) are usually used with TIFF or JPEG Images and useful if you want to define the image size on print.

Image size is typically defined by pixels on screen and thus DPI settings are usually redundant in such situations.

Today's printers are able to handle interpolation which allows resizing images to fit the page dimensions. Thus making DPI settings somewhat redundant. However, the program allows you to define DPI settings. The higher the DPI setting, the smaller the image dimension in inches on paper.

Progressive JPEG

Standard JPEG would would have to be fully loaded before they are displayed on a web browser. By enabling the Progressive JPEG checkbox, all JPEG images would be saved as Progressive JPEG. This would allow JPEG images to show up progressively while it loads on a web browser.

Note : Older Image Editors and Web browsers may not handle Progressive JPEG. In such situation, uncheck the Progressive JPEG option.


Save images as BMP
Saving Images

BMP

The Bitmap (BMP) image format is the de facto image format used by Windows and thus it is widely supported by all Windows-based application.

Saving to the BMP format is simple. All you need to do is to set the Image Format under Saving Options as BMP and you are on your way.

 TIFF

TIFF is a lossless algorithm which supports in high quality 24bits colors.

PCX

PCX is a format used in graphic and drawing.


Save images as GIF
Saving Images as GIF

GIF image format is another commonly used image format on the internet. Although it is not capable of storing high color images, it nevertheless fulfils its tasks for cliparts and drawings. GIF images supports up to 256 colors.

However, there is a controversy over the use the LZW compression algorithm which is used in GIF images because of an existing Unisys Patent which expires on June 19, 2003. The current terms dictates that you would be required to pay a licensing fee of US$5,000 to use such images. Reference : http://www.unisys.com/unisys/lzw/lzw-license.asp

With Batch It!, we make use of the RLE compression algorithm instead for the GIF images created by it. The RLE is a freeware algorithm and does not require you to pay any licensing fees. To image viewers and web browsers, the GIF-RLE format can be read and encoded without any additional tools or configuration. However, the difference is that the RLE compression is not as efficient as the LZW compression and thus would yield a slightly larger image size.


Save images in Same Directory
Saving Images in the Same Directory

Although it is a good policy not to overwrite existing image files as once overwritten, the changes are no longer reversible and permanent. Keeping a set of original archive would enable you to go back to them if you need to do so.

However, under certain circumstances, you might want to replace original files like creating thumbnails. Batch It! supports that by providing two different methods in achieving that.

Single Directory

If images are to be saved to a single directory, you could :-

a) Click Save In and select the directory/folder to save the processed images

Multiple Directory Source

a) Use relative path by using [Source Directory]\ in the Save In dropbox . This would enabled processed files to be saved back to the original source directory.


Save images in Different Directory
Saving Images in Different Directories

Saving images to different directories would definitely be a good policy as it allows you to retain the original images so you could go back to them any time.

Batch It! allows you to save images into a single directory or into multiple directories.

Single Directory

To save all images to a single directory, use Save In button to select the directory where you want to save the processed images in.

Multiple Directories

For instances when you want to save the processed images back to a sub-directory under the existing directory, you can take advantage of the relative path [Source Directory]\ method.

For example, if you have images from say c:\images and want to save all processed images to c:\images\thumbnails . Save the Save In path as [Source Directory]\thumbnails\ . The program would substitute [Source Directory] to C:\images .

This method works if you are processing images from multiple directory source.

For example,

C:\images\abc1.jpg

D:\mypics\xyz.jpg

F:\myholidays\def.jpg

If you set the Save In path to [Source Directory]\thumbnails\ , the above files would be saved in

C:\images\thumbnails\abc1.jpg

D:\mypics\thumbnails\xyz.jpg

F:\myholidays\thumbnails\def.jpg


Resize images and Rename them at the same time
Resizing Images and Renaming them at the same time

Although the Batch image processing and Filename changer modules are kept separately, you can merge the two functions in one step by checking the Use Filename Changer. This will take the filename changer settings to define the processed filenames.

Note : The Overwrite filenames check would not function in this situation.

Resizing Images and Renaming them at the same time

Although the Batch image processing and Filename changer modules are kept separately, you can merge the two functions in one step by checking the Use Filename Changer. This will take the filename changer settings to define the processed filenames.

Note : The Overwrite filenames check would not function in this situation.

When you select Use Filename Changer, you can preview the filename change from the Filename Changer tab. Clicking on Preview does two things. It allows you to update the view with the list from the Control Center and shows the file name changes. You can make the changes to the Filename Changer settings and click Preview to preview the filenames.

Note : To change sort order, do it at the Control Center as sort order changes at the Filename Changer would not update the actual list. Once the sort order is made in the Control Center, just click Preview in the Filename Changer to load the new ordered list.


Rename Files
Renaming Files

The Filename Changer function is a useful tool not only for images but any visible files. It allows you to rename all files to sequential running numbers or by tagging prefix and suffix to them.

Renaming files to Running Numbers

Example 1

Supposed if you want files to be running sequence, such as

0001.jpg

0002.jpg

0003.jpg

Set the Start Number to 1 and the Number of Digits to 4.

Example 2

If you want to rename files to

house001.jpg

house002.jpg

house003.jpg

Set the Start Number to 1 and the Number of Digits to 3. By adding 'house' in the beginning of the file names, set the prefix to house .

Example 3

If you have existing files but merely want to add a prefix and suffix without changing the original filename.

abc.jpg	house_abc_bc.jpg
def.jpg	house_def_bc.jpg
ghi.jpg	house_ghi_bc.jpg

Set the Prefix to 'house_', the Suffix to '_bc' and Check the Append Prefix and Suffix Only.

Note about Overwrite Files

If the Overwrite Files checkbox is  unchecked, the program would create new files with the original contents with the same filenames.

If the Overwrite Files checkbox is checked, the program would rename the files with the new filenames. No new files are created.


Batch Filename Changer
Batch Filename Change - Quick Start Guide

Step 1 - File name settings

On the Filename Changer page, go to Filename Changer Settings Panel to determine the filename settings.

Supposed if you want all filenames to be named sequential like :-

0001.jpg

0002.jpg

............

............

0999.jpg

Set the Start number to 1 and No of Digits as 4.

Step 2 - Select saving directory

Under Save in Directory, click Save In button, you will see a Save Renamed Files in Dialog box.Select the directory where the renamed files would be saved in. if it does not exist, clicking New Folder would allow you to create a new folder to save them in.

Step 3 - Select Files

Click Load Folder to select the folder of files you want to rename. After clicking OK, the Filename Grid would show the old filename and the new ones based on your configuration. This simply allows you to preview the filename changes before committing them to disk.

If you are not satisfied with the file names, change the settings and click Preview to preview the changes made.

Step 4 - Start Processing

Once you are satisfied with your selection. click Process All to start the file renaming process.


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Batch IT! Pro
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User Manual

Copyright 1998-2002 iRedSoft Technology Inc


Arranging File Sequence

Arranging File Sequence in Batch It! is relatively simple. It requires a few mouse clicks to select, drag and drop the file names. This works with one or a few images as long as they are in sequence.

For example, in the following example, you want to move P8070304.JPG to between P8070305.JPG and P8070306.JPG.

Before Move

After Move

Step 1

Select the row containing the file you want to move by clicking on the left-most column of the row.

The mouse pointer would change to a right arrow pointer.

Step 2

Click on the left-most column again on the left-most column of the row.

The arrow pointer would change to an upward pointing arrow. This indicate that it is in the drag and drop mode. While holding down the mouse drag the row or rows to the desired position and release the mouse.

You should see the row(s) in the new location.


Delete Files

There are times when we load duplicate files or files which are not to be on the list. Batch It! allows you to delete this files.

Select a single or multiple files and click the right-most mouse button, this should bring up the Popup menu. Select Delete Seleted Files to complete the process.


Add Watermark
Adding Watermark

Adding Watermark is pretty simple. All you need to do is to select the image you want to use as watermark. Set where you want to place the watermark at using the Alignment option. Set the Alignment options to NONE or clear the Watermark Image to disable the image watermarking option.

The Transparency % defines how transparent the watermark would appear. The higher the Transparency %, the more transparent the watermark.

If Transparent GIF/PNG Watermark is checked, it would include the watermark with transparent background. This option works with GIF and PNG images which defined transparent background only.

The Watermark supports JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF Images.


Manipulate Images

Batch It! Pro allows you to batch adjust brightness,  contrast of the images, save images as grayscale and convert them to negative photos.

Digital images captured from digital cameras and scanners may not come out right. Batch It! Pro allows you to adjust both brightness and contrast to brighten or enhance the images.

Saving to Grayscale allows you to save the images as 24bits grayscale images.

Convert to negative would convert images to photo negative.

By combinating different images manipulation settings would yield interesting results.

Retain Image Header Info Option allows you to either retain all the image header information such as EXIF header and other information included by the creation software into the image header or to remove them. By removing header information, the program would create smaller images. This might be important if the images are thumbnails and such information are not essential.


What's New
Version Information

v3.51
- Redesigned memory allocation for large images

v3.50

- Numerous minor bug fixes

v3.49

- Bug Fix : Inability to read non-compliance EXIF based Images

- Removed : Error Reporting System which causes system to crash.

v3.48
- Bug Fix : Error Reporting System crashing program on intermittent situations

v3.47
- Bug Fix : Preview in default browser is now set to preview in internal viewer. This is to prevent
  a bug when launching IE 6 under Windows XP

v3.46
- Improved Image Quality for thumbnails

v3.45

- Enhanced Text Caption : Supports Anti-aliasing/Smooth Text and Shadowed Text

v3.40

- Upgraded Imaging Engine for better Windows 98 Compatiability

v3.31

- Bug Fixes

- Added Bug Reporting System

v3.30

- Added Thumbnail Creation Option. This allows you to process the image to another dimension
  within the same process.

v3.25
- Additional Image Load Format - *.tga;*.vda;*.icb;*.vst;*.pix;*.pbm;*.pgm;*.ppm;*.wmf;*.fax;

                                                            *.psd;*.pdd;*.psp;*.cut;*.pcd

- Additional  Image Save Format - *.tga;*.pbm;*.pgm;*.ppm

v3.20
- Include option to remove header information to further reduce image size.

v3.19

- Fix Manual Move of Files in Filename Changer was not enforced.

v3.18

- Fix Display Name which was set as Read Only to Editable

- Added Include File Name option in HTML Wizard

v3.17

- Fix AutoRun.INF incompatibility between Windows version by including our own HTML Viewer

- Fix Multiple file select in Control Center

v3.16

- Add Support for GIF/PNG Transparent Watermark

v3.15

- Fix 'Run Away' Pixels on some isolated images

v3.14

- Fix TIFF file not saving bug

v3.12

- Fix AutoCD.INF File Pointer Bug

v3.11

- Included ability to load all sub-folders through the LOAD FOLDER function

v3.10

- Include Manual Image Editing Functions (Crop, Flip and Rotate)

- Include Color Adjustment (Contrast, HSV, HSL, RGB, Equalization and FFT)

- Include Effects (User Filter, Bump Map, Lens, Wave, Morphing Filter and Rotate)

v3.00

- Initial Product Launch


Batch HTML Thumbnail Gallery Creation
Creating Thumbnail Galleries

This is a simple step-by-step guide to creating a thumbnail galleries. It does not however describe all the various controls and settings.

Steps

1.	On the Control Center, use Load Folder to select the directories to load the images from. The filenames would be loaded to the Filename list on the left panel.

2.	On the HTML Wizard page, change the Design Type to Table Listing

3.	Change Hyperlink to to HTML Still (This would create a html page for each image file)

4. 	Under Background, Text, Visited Link, Active Link and Link Color set it to the desirable color. Make sure the background, text and link color are not the same. If they are, it would appear as invisible.

5.	Under Items per page, enter the total number of thumbnails you want it to include on each page. If the number of images exceed that number, additional thumbnail gallery page would be created.

Under Thumbnails per row, enter the number of thumbnails on each thumbnail row.

6. 	Click Save In to determine the directory to save the thumbnail galleries and associated files in. It is preferable to use a different directory from the source directory.

7.	Check Preview in Default Web Browser after HTML Generation.This will open the first thumbnail gallery page in your defaulted web browser once it complete its process.

8.	Return to Settings, check Use Thumbnail HTML Gallery Wizard

9. Return to the Control Center and Click Process All to Begin Processing

10. Once the Thumbnail galleries are created, it will be displayed in your web browser.


Navigation Button Sources
Navigation Buttons Sources

With Web It!, you can either use the defaulted Text Navigation links to navigate between pages or you could use graphical ones. You could either draw them yourself or use those current available on the web.

Here are a few sources where you could download them for free :

AAA Buttons

http://www.aaa-buttons.com/html/nav.shtml

Zubi's Web Graphics

http://www.geocities.com/zubisgraphics/

Button Me

http://www.buttonme.com/ButtonME/

Scream Design

http://www.screamdesign.com/freebies/buttons/index.html

The use of the above graphics are subjected to the terms and conditions of the website owners and graphic artists. We are not affiliated to any of the above sites in any manner.


Creating Web Thumbnail Galleries

Web It! allows you to create HTML galleries and the galleries created can be used on the internet without modification. It can be deployed to any Windows, Linux or Mac web hosting server.

The program will create all the HTML pages in the directory you specify in the Save In Directory. All thumbnails created would be save in the sub-folder /thumbnails . What you would need to do is to transfer all the files including this sub-folder to your website and should be able to view them immediately.

There are several ways of transferring the files to your web site. The typical method would be FTP transfer or via the web page. For more information, please refer to your web site.

By default, the first file would be name index1.html .

So on your web-browser, enter http://yourwebsiteaddress/index1.html and it will show the first thumbnail galleries page.

Note : Substitute the yourwebsiteaddress with the actual web address of your server.

If you require a place to host your pages, please refer to

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/Free/Personal/

There is a comprehensive links of man of the web servers which allows you to host for free in exchange for some banners on their pages. Do check with their terms and conditions for the type of files which they accept. We are not related to any of the services on that page.


Create AutoRun CD-ROM
Creating AutoRun CD Album

Web It! creates HTML Thumbnail Galleries and uses pure HTML codes. There are no proprietary codes in the source files so you could easily view them on any computer with a web browser.

Although the program does not burn CD-ROM or CD-RW but if you have a CD or DVD writer, you would already have the necessary program to do the CD writing.

If you want to create an Auto-RUN CD-Album, you will to check the Create Autorun.inf on the HTML Wizard page under the Save In column. This will create the necessary file which would point to the first index page.

Just copy all the files in the thumbnail galleries page and all sub-folders to the CD-ROM template. The created CD-ROM would launch the first index page when it is inserted to a Windows based computer.

Creating your own Autorun.inf file

If however, you want to create your own Autorun.inf file, it is relative simple to do. All you need is a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad.

Include the following in the editor

For Windows 95/98

[autorun]

open=index1.html

For Windows NT/2000/XP

[autorun]

shellexecute=index1.html

and save it as autorun.inf . Make sure it is on the main directory on the CD-ROM when you write it to CD. The next time you insert the CD-ROM into a Windows based computer which supports autorun CD, it will launch the main index page.

There is an cross-Microsoft-Windows incompatibility issue with the way autorun files are to be run. As such, since v3.17 we have included a basic HTML Viewer (bhtmlviewer.exe) which would work under all Windows platform (starting from Windows 95).

The Autorun.inf contains the following :-

[autorun]

open=bthmlviewer.exe "index1.html"

You can substitute index1.html for any other files which you want to autorun.


HTML Wizard

This main HTML Wizard page allows you to define the settings in creating the html pages. The settings may seems intimating but we will attempt to describe each settings.

The HTML Wizard is made up of 3 main panels, HTML Options, Thumbnail Options and Save In options.

HTML Options

Design Type	There are two available options here, Table Listing and File Directory.  The Table Listing would allow you to create thumbnail galleries using tables.  The File Directory would create file directory style galleries with one image per line.
Hyperlink To	There are four available options. Setting it to Image would create a hyperlink from the thumbnail gallery to the image file directly.  Setting it to HTML Still would create a HTML page for each image.  Setting it to HTML Slideshow would create a HTML page for each image and set meta refresh mode. This would allow the web browser to advance to a new page after a determined interval. Setting it to Do Not Hyperlink would create the Thumbnail Galleries without any link to the images
Include Thumbnail	Checking this option would include a thumbnail for each image into the thumbnail gallery page.
Include Display Name	Checking this option would include the Display Name defined in the Control Center for each image in the thumbnail gallery page.
Include File Name	Checking this option would include the Image File Name defined in the Control Center in the thumbnail gallery page. If you use the Filename Changer, it would reflect the new filename.
Include File Date	Checking this option would include the creation date of the image file into the thumbnail gallery page for each image.
Include File Size	Checking this option would include the file size in kilobytes for each image into the thumbnail gallery page.
HTML Title	This set the HTML Title for the thumbnail gallery. This will displayed on the top of the web browser title window
Background Color	This would set the background color for the thumbnail gallery and associated page. This define the <Body BGColor= > option.
Visited Link Color	The Visited Link Color is the color of the link which has been visited earlier by the browser.  This defines the <Body vlink= > option.
Active Link Color	The Active Link Color is the color of the link when the mouse button is being clicked.  This defines the <Body alink= > option.
Link Color	The Link Color is the color of the link which has not been clicked before. This defines the <Body link= > option.
HTML Prefix	This defines the filename of the thumbnail gallery html pages. This will be appended with the thumbnail gallery page number. For example, index would create thumbnail gallery html pages like index1.html , index2.html and so on.
SlideShow Interval	This defines the number of seconds before refreshing to the next image page if HTML Slideshow option is selected.
Border Around Thumbnails	This determines the border thickness size around each thumbnail. Set it to 0 if you do not want a border. This defines <img border= > option.
Frame Size	This determines the border thickness around the entire thumbnail gallery table. Set it to 0 if you do not want a border. This defines <table border= > option.
Items Per Page	This defines the total number of Thumbnails to appear on each page. This determines the total number of <td> Table Data item on each gallery page.
Leading Zeros	This defines the number of number padding when appending the thumbnail gallery index page number to the thumbnail gallery html pages.
Back Image	This is the Back Button image to be used. If this is empty, the text 'BACK' would be substituted.  On the Thumbnail Gallery Pages, this would bring it to the prior gallery page. This would not appear on the first page. On the HTML Image pages, this would bring it to the prior image page. This would not appear on the first page
Home Image	This is the Home button image to be used. If this is empty, the text 'HOME' would be used instead. On the Subsequent Thumbnail Gallery pages, the home would bring it back to the main Gallery page. On Image HTML pages, this would bring you back to the thumbnail gallery page which its thumbnail is found in.
Next Image	This is the Next Button image to be used. If this is empty, the text 'NEXT' would be substituted.  On the Thumbnail Gallery Pages, this would bring it to the next gallery page. This would not appear on the last page.  On the HTML Image pages, this would bring it to the next image page. This would not appear on the last page.
Font Type	This allow you to use the preset font set for the thumbnail galleries.  This defines <font face= > option
Font Size	Web It! supports both absolute font size and relative font size.  For Absolute font size, the ranges are 1 to 7 and the Relative font size ranges from -7 to +7. This defines <font size= > option.
Thumbnails Options
Thumbnails Per Line	This determines how many thumbnails would appear on each row.  This defines the number of <td> Table Data within each <tr> Table Row.
Thumbnail Width	This defines the thumbnail width in terms of pixels.
Thumbnail Height	This defines the thumbnail height in terms of pixels.
Maintain Dimension Ratio	By checking this option, the thumbnail would maintain as closely the dimension ratio defined by either thumbnail width or height.  If this is uncheck, the thumbnail would take the size as defined by thumbnail width and height without taking into account the dimension ratio.  Ensure the dimension for width and height is greater than 0 if using this option.
Processing Options
Deploy for screensize	This is useful if the images you want to display is larger than the screen size of the users who would be viewing them. This does not physically resize the images but rather define the Width and Height for screen display. By web deployment, a default 800 x 600 is most acceptable.
Create autorun.INF	The Autorun.inf file is the autorun file used in Autorun CD-ROM. This file determines the start file. By selecting this option, the autorun.inf file is created in the directory of the thumbnail gallery.  To create an autorun CD-ROM, you will need a CD-Writer or DVD-writer and a CD-ROM creation software like Roxio Easy CD Creator or Nero. Just copy all the thumbnail gallery files including the autorun.inf file to the CD-ROM and it will autorun when it is inserted onto a Windows-based Computer.  The Autorun would not work under Mac or the Linux environment. However the thumbnail galleries would still work under those platform

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HTML Wizard (Con't)

This is the Advanced Setting Page which allows you to add other Header tags, HTML above and below the thumbnail galleries.

The Additional Header Tag allows you to add other meta tags such as Author info, Page Expiry Date and so on.

The discussion is beyond the scope of the program. However, if you are interested in knowing more, feel free to view http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/head/meta.html

The Page Top HTML is the html which appears right above the thumbnail galleries page. This can include banner tags or description of the thumbnail galleries.

The Page Bottom HTML is the html which appears right below the thumbnail galleries page. This can include banner tags or copyright tags.


Filename Changer