Poll: Your preferred tool for batch processing images

I’ve used a variety of tools for batching images, with various degrees of friction / success
Because I may soon be looking at re-sizing thousands of TIFFs
I am curious if there is any industry preferred standard approach.

I tend to just use python and PIL

For conversion and basic processing tasks XNConvert is great ( XnView , the viewer has the same functionality )
http://www.xnview.com/en/

BTW: it’s freeware and multiplatform, a commandline version exists too ( commercial license )

irfanview

I’m just starting to get into wand Not deep enough in to have a strong opinion yet

we use ImageMagik for conditioning textures for runtime, and PILLOW (a PIL fork) with Python for maintaining the source files.
We also script Photoshop with Python, and I even to use PILLOW in photoshop for some operations.

sounds intriguing, definitely worth a look, thanks for the tip!

Wand is a ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python.

Nice. I’ve had success with Image Magick before, this could be quite useful.

The issue with most utilities is the lack of support for EXR and/or 32bits channels. I found Houdini’s icp / iconvert utilities to be quite powerful.

another vote for irfanview here. I just batch converted a bunch of raw CR2s into jpgs

I know it’s a bit slower but I really like to use Photoshop. Using python with the win.com ports it gives predictable results with great quality.