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If you’re an Ubuntu user and you have your own blog then you might find this really interesting and useful. Everybody likes posting images to their blog, right ? But what if you have a bunch of photos and you need to rename (for search engines) and resize (to fit your blog layout) them ? Sure you can rename the photos one by one and open each of them with gIMP to resize.

How about doing this for 50 photos ? It would surely take you more than 10 minutes.

Here’s the easy and fast way to do it. To rename multiple photos/files at once you can use GPRename. You can easily install it from the terminal with the following command:

sudo apt-get install gprename

GPRename is really easy to use so I will get on to the batch image resize. This can be done really easy with nautilus-image-converter. To install it open up a terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter

Note: for changes to take effect in your Nautilus menu you have to logoff or reboot. After that just select multiple photos and right click. You’ll get this:

If you want to keep the image scale then you have to resize by using the Scale option:

And that’s it. Now you can easily handle a bunch of photos in minimum time on Ubuntu. All you have to do after is to upload them and write a new post.