This how-to article will show you how easy and pain free it is to create an Adobe PDF album.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the photos you want to add to this album.  You’ll see that in this example we picked multiple formats – CR2, MOS and CRW.  Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Selecting a range of photo formats with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Choose PDF album and you will have a great range of options.  The default format is PDF, but you can also choose Postscript if needed.  The layout, highlighted in blue, allows you to pick page orientation, resolution, page size, number of photos per page and even the spacing between the photos.  Hit Start to continue.

Creating a PDF album with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 3 – Name your file

Click start and you will be prompted to select a location and name for the album file.  Hit Save to continue.

Name that Album with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

All done!

Your album will be created at a fraction the size of the original 8 photos.  Ideal for somebody who needs to preview the photos – but has no need to have the actual HUGE image files.

Successful PDF album creation with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

And lets take a look at what this two page album will look like:

PDF Album

This how-to article will show you how easy and pain free it is to change image size in just a few simple steps using Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from the photo, or even photos, where you want the size adjusted.  Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Selecting your photo using Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

In this case we are going to convert to JPEG at the same time.  But you could even keep the file in the same format and just execute the size change.  As you can see from the menu you can pick from a wide range of image sizes.

Selecting the Image Size in Contenta Converter PREMIUM

All done!

When you have all the settings the way you like them, you select Start.  Soon you will have a successful file conversion and images that are the exact size to meet your needs!

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the .THM photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Selecting THM files for conversion with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” checkbox is checked and select the format. In this example we picked JPEG, but the drop down menu also gives you the choices for TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG and more than a dozen other formats!  You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to JPEG will be stored.  You can also adjust the quality, the image size and the metadata – but we’ll use all the defaults in our example.

Select which format to convert to using Contenta Converter Premium

All done!

Click start and soon you will see the final screen and you will have your new JPEG files!

Successful Conversion with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

We’ll show you the easy and pain free way to do this with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the .CR2 photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Select your Canon CR2 Files with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” checkbox is checked and select the format. In this example we picked JPEG 2000, but the drop down menu also gives you the choices for EPS, JPG, PDF and more than a dozen other formats!  You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to JPEG 2000 will be stored.

The program will default to preserve EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadatas which will preserve all the details about the photo – date it was taken, brand of camera used, model of camera used and much more detail.  You can choose to turn this off to make the file a bit smaller or to hide any of that information.   You can also choose to reduce the image size and in this example we’ll turn these files into thumbnail size images.

Select the JPEG 2000 format with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

All done!

Click on start and moments later, you will see the final screen and you have your new JPEG 2000 thumbnail files!  Tip – We always suggest you save the original CR2 files as these will have the best quality if you ever need to convert to other formats in the future.

Successful thumbnail creation with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

We will show you here how to generate thumbnails with ease thanks to Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select the photos

Click on the Add Photos button and select in your computer the photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Select the photos you wish to reduce

Step 2: Configure the conversion/rescaling job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” checkbox is checked and select JPEG as the format. Check the “Do reduce image size” checkbox and select “Thumbnail” in the “Profile” list. You can uncheck the checkbox “Preserve EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata” as we will not need metadata for these thumbnails. We did set the quality to 70% in order to compress the thumbnails a little bit more at low cost on the quality. The “Size preview” tells us that the whole set of images will be 664.1 kb large when the originals are 259.8 Mb.

Setup rescaling job

Step 4: Rename in batch

Show the “Rename” settings by clicking on its icon in the top bar. Check the “Do rename” checkbox and enter the pattern you wish to use for renaming. We will type “%name%_small.%ext%”. So that “_small” is appended to the file names of the originals. The preview shows you how the final filename will look like: “P1000875_small.jpg”, “P1000876_small.jpg”, …

Batch rename your thumbnails

Step 5: Create a sub-folder

Show the “Sub folder” settings by clicking on its icon in the top bar. Check the “Create subfolders” checkbox and enter the pattern you wish to use for the sub-folder. We will type “thumbs”. All generated thumbnails will be created in a sub-folder named “thumbs”.

Group them in a "thumbs" sub-folder

Step 6: Click Start!

Click the “Start!” button and the software will start immediately the conversion. The thumbnails will be stored in the thumbs sub-directory of the “Output directory”. Everything is ready for upload to your web server.

Click Start! and you're done. Ready for FTP!