You can do it in PS (CS3 and above - not sure about earlier versions).

Go to File - Scripts - Image Prcoessor.

Select the input folder containing images to resize in step 1.
Select ouput folder for resized images in step 2 (if you choose same folder as input it will create a sub-folder and use that).
Can choose the output size (max dimensions are set for width & height) then save as jpg, TIF etc. You can even choose a PS action to run on each image as it is resized.

I've traditionally shot JPEG for the last 6 years and only this year started to use RAW. I currently shoot RAW + JPG images and am processing the RAW files.

Although I'm getting quicker, I still find it time consuming to process the RAW files and although subjectively different, I'm still not convinced that the developed RAW images are better than the JPG out of the camera (and yes, I have tweaked the image settings in camera to my liking).

By coincidence I also shot an equestrian event for the organisers recently and ended up with a little over 400 images to be delieverd within 2 days. I did this with the JPGs - there was no way I could have done this with 400 RAW images.

My current thinking is to use RAW when I am out taking just a few shots of which only a couple will be keepers to put in my folio and to use RAW when it is event coverage and I will be taking a large number of images.

I started with a set of Cokin P ND grads and, like many others, found they gave a very strong magenta cast when stacked. It's a pain to remove the cast in post because it's graduated across the image. It isn't like removing a cast that's equal in intensity across a whole image - you have to fade the removal with the effect of the filter. If you have a lot of images from a shoot, that all adds up.
I replaced the Cokin filters with Hi-Tech/Formatt and they are a lot better, though still have a slight colour cast. One of them has a dent in the filter surface (though I've never seen it show up in an image) and one has more of a hard edge rather than graduation where the filtration starts, so I'm not convinced their quality control is terribly good but they do the job for me.
Unlike others, I use the grads a lot: pretty much every dawn and dusk landscape shot I take is with a grad.
In terms of what to go for, I use the ND4 and ND8 grads. I have an ND2 grad as it came in the filter kit, but never use it.

I've been a member of their facebook group for nearly a year but last Saturday was the first time I've been to any of their events. Went to a meet in Calverley to wander round and take photos.

Gah! I meant to say hen pheasant - it *was* late when I posted 'grouse hen'!
So that's what an 'ugly duckling' looks like then?

Well, only my second Pentax User meet and my first to an RSPB site, so good to see a lot of new and friendly faces and interesting to do something way out of my comfort zone. As mentioned, the weather was truly appalling - heavy, overcast skies and drizzle for the first 3 hours so rather less than ideal.

Here are my efforts:

Obligatory swan shot:



Waxwings on the rare occaision they were sat in the tree!:



Not sure what this is - some goose? - though it looks like a particularly dirty swan to me:



The 'faux bittern' - better known as a grouse hen:



and finally:

I'll be popping along to this, so see you all in the cafe around 10am!

That's not bait - it's "foreground interest"!

Bagged this one last Sunday in the local park. Not my usual subject matter so rather out of my comfort zone:

Ah well, I can't do Mondays so I might just wander into Leeds on the Tuesday evening myself anyway.