ThumbsUp does a great job in resizing a directory(folder) of images however when you have a directory tree the resized images get burried inside the directory tree and it’s a lot of work to get them out of there and rename them.
Example.
Let’s say I have a folder called Animals with the following folder structure:
Animals/domestic/cats/
Animals/domestic/dogs/
Animals/wild/lions/
Animals/wild/zebras/
If I drag the folder “Animals” over the ThumbsUp application there is no way to get a new “Animals” folder that contains ONLY the resized images.
I’ll either get the resized images with a different prefix/suffix mixed with the originals or I’ll get subfolders inside the original folders that all have the same name ie “resized”.
Animals/domestic/cats/resized
Animals/domestic/dogs/resized
Animals/wild/lions/resized
Animals/wild/zebras/resized
It’s impossible to extract just the resized images from such a structure.
It should be the other way around:
One new folder named “resized” that contained all the resized images in the same structure and nothing else. ie
resized/Animals/domestic/cats/
resized/Animals/domestic/dogs/
resized/Animals/wild/lions/
resized/Animals/wild/zebras/
That way if you want to zip, upload, ftp the resized images you can do it easily because they are in a completely different directory from the originals.
Another option would be to allow resizing with overwriting the originals.
It would be up to the user to duplicate the originals as a backup.