Batch Conversions

.Ok, as most of you already know, bitmap or .bmp files take up alot more room on your hard drive than Jpeg or .jpg files. I'm going to show you how to turn a bunch of .bmp files into .jpg. Someone sent me an alphabet set and it's 29 .bmp files and it's taking up 181KB of space. Open PSP, go to FILE>BATCH CONVERTION. Ok, when the box comes up it will say look in. This is where you find the files that you want to change. Then you'll see a list of the files. Highlight the ones you want to change. You'll notice after you have done that, that where it says File name: will have the names of all the files you want to change like this...

Ok, where it say Output settings Type: is where you'll pick what type of file you want to change them to. I want to change mine to .jpg files so I'll pick it like this...

Where it says Output folder this is where you want the files to be put after they have been changed. If it doesn't say where you want them to go click Browse and find the file you want them put into. I want mine to stay in the same file so thats what I picked like this...

Now this is what mine looks like...

Now I'll click Start and a box like this will come up and it will change the files...

When it's done just click ok. I changed my files into the same file the .bmps were in so now I have 2 sets of the alphabet in that one file. One is the .bmp's and the other is the .jpg's. Now I need to go to Explorer and open that file and delete the .bmps. I still have 29 files in there but now they're only taking up 77.7 KB on my hard drive.

That's it.

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