Converting Product photos to the same size

[blabbermouth]

  Newbie needing to post all my products on web to 1024x1024 regardless of original size.  There must be an easy way to do so in Affinity Photo?  Thanks in advance

www.blabbermouthchocolates.com to see what I am challanged with.

[verysame]

Any free batch converter will do, e.g. XnView, or XnView Mp & XncCnvert if you are on Mac.

[Pšenda]

19 minutes ago, blabbermouth said:

There must be an easy way to do so in Affinity Photo?

 

What is the problem of exporting images in the required resolution?

[firstdefence]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

 

What is the problem of exporting images in the required resolution?

I think he means I have a shed load of images and I need to automate changing the images to 1024 x1024, which is fine in principal but when you have images that are smaller than 1024 x1024 you may end up with poor quality images, or distorted images if they are not square.

[toltec]

Make a new document 1024 x 1024.

 

Place a image, (File > Place)  and make it fit the document, enlarging the bounding box, cropping the image as necessary.

 

The placed image is bigger than the 1024 x 1024 document. As shown by the blue bounding box.

 

Export it and it will automatically be 1024 x 1024, as per the document size, no matter what size or shape the image started as.

 

Back in the document, select the image and click Replace Image

 

 

Place and resize the next chocolate and Export that, etc, etc, etc, etc. Each exported image will be exactly 1024 x 1024, 'coz that is the size of the Document.

 

Piece of cake. Chocolate cake in your case 

 

If you learn the keyboard shortcut for Export (or set your own), it will be very fast, Export, click on Replace Image, Export etc. You will soon build up a nice routine.

[Pšenda]

58 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

automate changing the images to 1024 x1024,

 

https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Macros_Batch/batchjobs.html

[firstdefence]

12 hours ago, blabbermouth said:

  Newbie needing to post all my products on web to 1024x1024 regardless of original size.  There must be an easy way to do so in Affinity Photo?  Thanks in advance

www.blabbermouthchocolates.com to see what I am challanged with.

 

I have to say this... I think you need to rethink some of the product photography because those photo's really don't do the product nor the brand any flavours  having chocolate that looks like that, is, about as appetising as... well its just not!

 

having done websites in the past, I have found that you either get a professional photographer to take the images or you take them yourself after learning how to take food photographs, and in this case chocolate. polygon shapes are good, like squares, triangles, circles so mold the chocolate in to shapes, they will still retain the texture. Have some of the key ingredients in the picture too like Coconut flakes or even 'a coconut and a palm leaf' this adds contrast and colour.

If you do it yourself, it's easy enough to set up a small studio and light it. This means you have complete control over your images and studio work gives consistency to the images and if you are fairly creative, a uniqueness.

You don't need an all-singing all-dancing camera either, I took all my photo's on an iPhone using the Square setting in Camera, The iPhone was mounted on a tripod, I set the Camera to delay and took a picture once I'd got the look I wanted it was just a matter of placing the product and taking the picture. Doing this meant no cropping, only a resize if needed, the iPhone took 2044px x 2044px images.