Here is a nice looking freeware program that allows you to automate some image processing tasks. Will also generate albums of these images.
ImageTasks is a powerful tool for editing, adjusting, converting images. It also includes Batch Edit for processing large sets of images, HTML Album for generating albums ready to be published on the web and Desktop Extensions for customizing look and feel of your desktop.
Image Adjusting features include hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, color balance settings, resize, cut, rotate, flip and watermark tools and 12 graphic filters (blur, sharpen, place in frame e t.s.). Batch Edit makes it easy to apply all this settings and filters to a large sets of images.
ImageTasks supports 15+ graphics formats and can save your images as JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP. Also provides a full-featured HTML Album generation tool and templates.
from http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld 
