What's a good image management program?

What's a good program that can do operations including compression on multiple images? I just noticed my new camera folder album exceeded 2GB, which is ridiculous. I've noticed the given resolution of taking a picture with every digital camera is always twice the real resolution less. It's so obviously blurry it looks upscaled. Same thing with 1080p Blu-rays, they all look upscaled 720p. Pure waste of bandwidth and storage.

So is there a program that can resize all my images to 50% and then apply compression, preferably the compression being customizable. I always go with 95 for photos I need perfect and 80 for the rest.

Per Industrial One:
What's a good program that can do operations including compression on multiple images? I just noticed my new camera folder album exceeded 2GB, which is ridiculous. I've noticed the given resolution of taking a picture with every digital camera is always twice the real resolution less. It's so obviously blurry it looks upscaled. Same thing with 1080p Blu-rays, they all look upscaled 720p. Pure waste of bandwidth and storage.

So is there a program that can resize all my images to 50% and then apply compression, preferably the compression being customizable. I always go with 95 for photos I need perfect and 80 for the rest.

I'd check out ThumbsPlus from Cerious Software.

Can't speak to the specifics bc I only use about .02% of it's
capabilities... but it seems to me like it has some pretty
serious functionality.
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Pete Cresswell

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Industrial One writes:
What's a good program that can do operations including compression on
multiple images? I just noticed my new camera folder album exceeded
2GB, which is ridiculous. I've noticed the given resolution of taking a
picture with every digital camera is always twice the real resolution
less. It's so obviously blurry it looks upscaled. Same thing with 1080p
Blu-rays, they all look upscaled 720p. Pure waste of bandwidth and storage.

With a lot of cameras, especially the ones that are designed primarily
for taking videos but have a stills feature, it is my opinion that
they're often let down by the optics - i. e. the lens.

If you're pretty sure the camera isn't capable of doing justice to the
theoretical maximum resolution of its sensor, then set it to use a lower
resolution: most of them can be so set, though few people bother, or
even know this.

So is there a program that can resize all my images to 50% and then
apply compression, preferably the compression being customizable. I
always go with 95 for photos I need perfect and 80 for the rest.

For sorting the ones you've already taken, try IrfanView: it can
certainly do batch shrinking by half (really quarter, i. e. half in each
direction); it's free, small, and fast. I _think_ you can set the
compression too.
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