I've got 7 CDs of digital photos 1280 x 960 that I need to upload on a site I'm working.

First, they're too big, but there are so many I need some kind of batch tool. Color needs to optimize for the web, no sense having 32bit color in a 216 color enviroment.

I've looked around and dl a few, but I thought I'd ask. The ones I've found aren't too good (freeware), but there may be a really good one out there I've not found.

This is probably a one time project...I got talked into it, because the site is just Sloooowwww beyond belief with the non-optimized jpgs.

The more automatic the tool is the better. These CDs have a co-zillion pics on each disk. LOL

I'd appreciate any suggestions or links

hhttp://www.irfanview.com/

All you'll ever need. Run IrfanView and press B for the Batch Conversion dialogue. There you can resize, rename, crop, flip, rotate, sharpen, blur, gamma correct, saturate, and even stroke hundreds of files with one click, set the source and target folders, change color depth, and add text to every single image.

The batch renaming works with non-image files too btw.

That's so cool...thanks