Switcheroo, while mainly intended for converting images from one format to another, is great for bulk-compressing photos!
This program made my life easier today.
I take my photos with a DSLR camera, which produces great-looking images with huge file sizes. Most of the time I'm trying to get decent-looking pictures quickly, so I don't work with the RAW images; I just use the auto-generated JPG my camera produces.
The problem is, 12MB images are usually too big to share. So, I need to compress them.
Switcheroo makes this really easy!
All you need to do is set the resize percentage to 25% of the current image size (all photos are the same resolution, so they'll all be resized to 1500x1000) and turn down compression quality to shrink the images. I like 70% quality.
Then you save them all to a folder, and that's all there is to it!
Otherwise, I would have had to open GIMP and resize each image one-by-one.
You can get Switcheroo here:
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Written by
James North
Project Manager and Company Director at Evolvepreneur.
Part-time system administrator for Evolve Systems Group.
Part-time writer and author of A Guide to Desktop Linux in 2025.
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