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How to batch watermark your images for free with Irfanview

batch-watermarking

– just to be a bit more concise than this useful, but long post on yet another great feature of this free program (shout-out to Kai). Not shown here: after making your settings here, click button “Start batch”.

Animated GIFs workflow using MS-OneNote, MS-Paint, Irfanview and UnFREEZ

  1. To keep things simple (and, at least in our work environment, free) during smaller Animated GIF projects (larger projects may warrant use of ImageMagick, scriptable image editor), you can use
    1. MS-OneNote screen clipping (configured right, it seems the fastest way to collect source material)
    2. Update: I recommend now screenshotcaptor instead, if you do screenshot projects more than  occasionally.  MS-Paint (or pretty much any image editor) to mark up your images
    3. IrfanView to batch convert to GIF: image image image
    4. UnFreez to easily create animated GIFs in differing speeds: imageimage, which can be automated.

How to batch convert image files with IrfanView

  1. Had to make a large number of screenshots recently without being able to set the most convenient file format.
  2. Fortunately, IrfanView has powerful conversion options:
  3. irfanview-batch
  4. and makes batch-converting easy:irfanview-batch2
  5. Limitation: IrfanView uses only one processor core here (Windows7 home): irfanview-batch3